Hollywood: Easy A, a teen sex comedy with no actual sex, aims rather conspicuously to plumb the best bits of Diablo Cody and Alexander Payne in its upside-down, self-consciously campy take on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. In the role of its high-school Hester Prynne is Emma Stone, the sly, husky heroine of last year’s surprise hit Zombieland. Tested by a film that is far less clever than its director, Will Gluck, or screenwriter, Bert Royal, would have us believe (and they desperately want us to believe), she passes with flying colors, delivering a performance that should elevate her into the upper echelon of actresses possessing brains and beauty in equal measure.
Skewed and Reviewed had lots of good things to say about the gory new film that has lots of surprising humor.
Love Forever Review: The movie has some adorable moments, some humour, and a nice, fuzzy conclusion but nothing new that will make it memorable.
TNS: The Dungeons & Dragons TV series perished at Paramount, but Deadpool director Shawn Levy rolled up the show's new sheet on Netflix.
