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Review #12: The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
I feel as though every decent teen comedy is an exact replica of the previous one.
The Edge of Seventeen is a coming of age film that follows Nadine, a 17 year old girl who's high school life is depressing, and things get more unbearable for her when her best and only friend starts dating her brother.
To be quiet honest, I feel like I'm reviewing Juno all over again, because this has a lot of similarities to it and to every other good teen comedy (Easy A, Mean Girls, 10 things I hate about you...), it has the sarcastic humour, the cartoonish characters, except this time they are a bit less unrealistic.
Everyone does a good enough job playing their roles with Woody Harrelson being the standout performance, he was my and I'm sure other people's favourite character, every scene he's in is very enjoyable and funny.
Another thing I really admired was how the film didn't solely focus on the lead, which was a good choice since she is a pain in the arse and becomes really unlikeable over time, but not enough to completely hate her and that makes for a good balance, since it's good to see a fair portrayal of a moody teenage girl.
The movie does unfortunately fall in the usual clichés you would expect in these kind of films, and you can pretty much predict what's gonna happen by the end of the flick, but god does this one completely turn to total garbage in the last 10 minutes. They pretty much flush out all of the characteristics of the lead character and replace it with traits of a goodie goodie girl for no real reason other than to have your typical happy ending, and that is very disappointing to see in a movie that was already going well.
The film is pretty enjoyable until things become way too convenient near the end, to the point where you can literally pick up any of the coming of age movies endings and put it in this film and it wouldn't make a difference.
The Edge of Seventeen is a really funny teen drama with interesting characters that have a good chemistry between them but overall the movie doesn't add anything new to the table in my opinion, and completely drops the ball by the end of the film, therefore I'm giving it a B-
I feel as though every decent teen comedy is an exact replica of the previous one.
The Edge of Seventeen is a coming of age film that follows Nadine, a 17 year old girl who's high school life is depressing, and things get more unbearable for her when her best and only friend starts dating her brother.
To be quiet honest, I feel like I'm reviewing Juno all over again, because this has a lot of similarities to it and to every other good teen comedy (Easy A, Mean Girls, 10 things I hate about you...), it has the sarcastic humour, the cartoonish characters, except this time they are a bit less unrealistic.
Everyone does a good enough job playing their roles with Woody Harrelson being the standout performance, he was my and I'm sure other people's favourite character, every scene he's in is very enjoyable and funny.
Another thing I really admired was how the film didn't solely focus on the lead, which was a good choice since she is a pain in the arse and becomes really unlikeable over time, but not enough to completely hate her and that makes for a good balance, since it's good to see a fair portrayal of a moody teenage girl.
The movie does unfortunately fall in the usual clichés you would expect in these kind of films, and you can pretty much predict what's gonna happen by the end of the flick, but god does this one completely turn to total garbage in the last 10 minutes. They pretty much flush out all of the characteristics of the lead character and replace it with traits of a goodie goodie girl for no real reason other than to have your typical happy ending, and that is very disappointing to see in a movie that was already going well.
The film is pretty enjoyable until things become way too convenient near the end, to the point where you can literally pick up any of the coming of age movies endings and put it in this film and it wouldn't make a difference.
The Edge of Seventeen is a really funny teen drama with interesting characters that have a good chemistry between them but overall the movie doesn't add anything new to the table in my opinion, and completely drops the ball by the end of the film, therefore I'm giving it a B-