Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around her hilarious journal entries, prepare to be engulfed in the world of the soaring joys and bottomless angst of being a teenager.
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- Cast:
- Georgia Groome , Eleanor Tomlinson , Aaron Taylor-Johnson , Tommy Bastow , Alan Davies , Karen Taylor , Georgia Henshaw
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Pretty Good
Absolutely the worst movie.
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Everything in this movie is terrible. Name an element of a movie and this thing fails miserable. Acting, cinematography, plot. This sht has no redeeming qualities. The only reason I watched this all the way through was because my mom made me (I asked to borrow it from the library and she thought that as a consequence I should watch the whole thing). This abomination is cringy, poorly acted and bad. Don't watch this movie. You could be doing anything else. You would get more out of just banging your head against the wall than you would out of this movie. I'm not sure how much I can stress how bad this movie is.
Georgia fancies Robbie who is going out with Lindsay so she starts plotting with her friends even though her parents won't let her have the 16th birthday party she wants and besides her dad is getting promoted to New Zealand and her mum may have something going on with the hunky builder...This film is based on books which I haven't read. It is OK. It's not terribly original, but is mildly amusing nonetheless. The acting is, for the large part, no better than adequate and, regrettably, this includes the adult cast as well as the teens. The only cast member who stands out as good as Aaron Johnston who, of course (and, I suspect, not entirely coincidentally), has gone on to bigger and better things.
I watched this movie on DVR after seeing the Opening scene of Georgia in her costume that she called "the business" I thought it seemed like a cute film. Georgia's transformation was bumpy to say the least , I was thinking "what kind of messages are we sending our young girls?". She is fourteen and ranking the stages of kissing , it seems a little young . I didn't really like Georgia at the beginning she was kind of mean, bossy ,and even manipulative of her friends . My stomach turned when the girls started to rate one another's looks ,and features . When she was jealous of her friend's new relationship she said "He's not even good enough for you ." Just wow . I almost felt like I wanted to scream if I heard the word "Slag" one more time , I assumed it meant slut and found through a Google search that is basically what it means .She even manipulated a poor guy that was just an innocent bystander in her love shape thing . I just cringed thinking can this get any worse ,and well it did as she hurt person after person, in the end of her downward spiral part hurting herself not physically but emotionally by distancing herself from the people she cared about. She does pull it together ,and the ending is cute I won't spoil it . I loved the "More mature" her , it is good at the end but I feel for me personally it was too little to late to give it an 8 . I still don't like the starter messages, and the later messages are better ,but not necessarily good.
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, an attempt to cash in on the quirky British teen book of the same name...no wait...that was called 'Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging', my mistake. I know, that name is just so darn raunchy.Anyhow, I saw nothing in the film which warrants a theatrical release. You'll find nothing here that you wouldn't find on any other teen girl series on CBBC. You have the awkward 14 year-old girl Georgia and her quest to find the hottest guy evarrr in time for her birthday party, helped by her bratty friends. Dramatic stuff right?I wouldn't say there's anything necessarily wrong with this, I just don't see why it needed to be released in theatres. By the end, I'm like "so what?"Even on it's own level, everyone but pre-teen girls are going to be annoyed by the film and it's stereotypical view of British adolescent life. Basically, the characters have their priorities all wrong and don't learn a satisfactory lesson. This could be potentially harmful to it's audience, much worse than any violence or bad language, in my opinion. That leads me to my other main problem with the film: it doesn't know which tone it's going for. Georgia describes the love interest as a "sex God", a tad inappropriate considering that the furthest anyone gets is a good snog. If you had a film tackling issues of teen sexuality, that would be a film I would like to see. This is your average teeny girl nonsense which will be forgotten soon enough.I don't recommend this to anyone but the target audience. If you are part of it, don't make your parents watch it.