The story centers on a 14-year-old girl who keeps a diary about the ups and downs of being a teenager, including the things she learns about kissing.
This movie is really cute. Granted, if you're not a 14-year-old girl then you have to be in the mood to watch one throw tantrums and have classic family issues.
The main character, Georgia, wants to have her first kiss, her first boyfriend and in short...get a life.
So she and her friend, Jas, see two new 'sex gods' on campus and decide to try to get them to like them. Very teen movie 101.
Their efforts don't go unnoticed and Jas gets one of the gods to ask her out. They start dating and Georgia gets pissed. She tries really hard to win over the other god, but turns out, he already has a girlfriend. I think her name was Lindsey. If it wasn't obvious, this movie was filmed overseas and the entire cast has British accents. For the most part the language wasn't too hard to follow but every once in a while they would use slang and talk so fast it just went right over my head.
But that stuff wasn't crucial to the story or anything so it doesn't really matter.
Anyway, Lindsey is really mean to Georgia, which offends the sex god because he kind of likes Georgia. Georgia tries to make him jealous by making out with a 'ladies man' and the sex god's closest friend. This just makes a mess of everything and no one ends up happy.
Then after some moping, everybody gets what they want. The end.
Now I said this movie was cute, not anything I haven't seen before or anything that I will be re-watching. There was just one HUGE part I didn't understand about the whole thing. Georgia complains that she's ugly, no one will ever like her, she's a loser...etc. Classic girl self-hatred.
Then she kisses one boy and he suddenly falls for her. She doesn't like him and tries to make that clear, but he chases her anyway. Then to make sex god jealous she goes out with his best friend who thought she was into him, but she wasn't so that was awkward. He's upset too and makes sex god upset.
I mean not to undermine this girl or anything (she really is pretty for a 14-year-old and there's generally nothing bad about her) but WHY ARE ALL THESE GUYS CHASING HER???
She just complains about herself all the time (except when she's with sex god) and didn't really do anything except talk to these guys to lead them on.
If I went up to a guy and we started talking and I happened to say you're funny, I don't think he would interpret it as a date. But all these guys did and maybe it's just because they're really young?
And one more thing. Georgia's friend Jas has the biggest mouth ever. Georgia confides in her A LOT and then Jas turns around and tells the people they're talking about everything Georgia said, which just makes everyone more angry. I don't know if Jas means to be so blabber-mouthy but she should really work on what she tells people. Just because she's going out with someone, doesn't mean she has to share everything she talks about with Georgia.
One good thing about Jas is that she's not afraid to tell Georgia's mom the stuff that she should know about Georgia. That was the one good thing that came out of all her blabbing.
Anyway, I think 3 stars is sufficient for this movie. Not bad, not great...but solid good.
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