I have to say.. it was very uncomfortable watching this movie.
Despite finding Josie's character painfully relatable in some ways, I didn't really enjoy this much. I'm a sucker for the 90's fashion and music, but beyond that there wasn't much to like.
Realistically, the whole motivator for the plot doesn't make sense; the reason for her to be "undercover" is so harebrained. At no point does she have an interesting angle or meaningful lead on a story. This is mostly because the moment she walks in, she basically forgets why she's there and starts making googly eyes at the most popular boy in the school, seemingly just because he is the most popular boy in the school. She is consistently naive to the point of folly.
Josie is a great demonstration of the difference between being intellectual and smart.
cool movie, could have been better if they had James Franco play the high school kid she dated
While people generally have a problem with its premise (such as how there was not really a story to cover anyway or how they registering into the school is ignorant to the whole bureaucracy behind it), I'm willing to suspend my belief just so the trope of wanting to relieve your days of high school and do something different than you did before can take place.
But I do have the same problem as everyone else regarding the movie's romantic interests: the teacher and Josie, Josie and the school throb and Rob and and another student. These are all wrong and weird. Not to mention how there were two instances of other grown-up men commenting on the bodies of the young female students.
But the biggest problem that I have, to be honest, is the fact that this movie is not much of a comedy for most of it, as its “rom-com” label would make you believe. Jokes keep falling flat and makes it feel aimless some of the times. I don't know, it's weird.
On a bright side: the ending credits are the most creative and cutest thing ever! Using the actors' and the people beind the movie's high school pictures really touched me on a soft spot. Reminds me that all these people that came together to make a movie, albeit a bad one, were once kids that probably never imagined that their adult life was going to be like this. It puts humanity on its forefront and that's beautiful. Every movie should do that!
It was very uncomfortable to watch, it was a movie that aged poorly, there are better options to watch, I don't like teacher x student affairs, it's disgusting.
When I jog on the treadmill I generally prefer to watch crappy rom coms. At some point I probably need to get out of this habit as I am running out of ones that aren't putrid like this movie is. Its freaking Drew Barrymore - how can you possibly mess it up? Seeing her play a cringy high schooler is absolutely brutal. And the script.... so, so bad. It was like driving by a car crash. David Arquette should have been arrested for impersonating an actor (or worse, portraying a high school student despite the fact he looks 40).
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The dress code isn't timeless but the nastiness of high school sure is. Been a good while since I first saw this film and Drew is just as charming. The cringe moments gave my such second hand embarrassment I had to look away. Bless her heart.
Watching as an adult the love connection does seem a bit problematic now but it wasn't acted upon so don't see why people are getting so pressed.
Two people fell in love and in the end that was okay! Just embrace it!
I'M NOT JOSIE-GROSSIE ANYMORE!!!
Shout by Ashley McWhorterBlockedParent2019-01-20T20:08:29Z
Is everyone ignoring the whole statutory rape vibe of this movie?
Great acting though