Director: Drew Barrymore
This review will be very short.
It's fun. Nothing groundbreaking, mediocre in direction, but lots of fun. The tone is young: the movie features smart, spirited young women, and though the tropes/culture it digs into is easy to parody (beauty pageants, roller derby), at the same time it's full of love for the people who live these lives. Yes, there are tropes and one-dimensional side characters. Yes, Ellen Paige plays the same character over and over again. But hey, that's the good thing about Hollywood. You have some sense of knowing what you're getting. And the writing is strong and punchy.
This movie will give you a good time, & not even a problematic time at that, because it indulges in all western myths and tropes without bringing along poisonous cultural assumptions (like the drunk girl is a stupid slut, or the boy and girl must end up together in the end).
Watch it.
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