Movie Review - Easy A

Usually I hate 'teen movies', and those set in California even more. But this one is really good, and smarter than your average flick. The title of the movie itself is a reference to Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter', and there's a few Huck Finn jokes as well. Also, jokes take a while to pay off, which means you have to pay attention for more time than it takes to tweet. Emma Stone is excellent as the high school girl who pretends to be a skank in order to help boost the reputations of the socially awkward - her character is a clever mixture of self-awareness and naïveté, cynicism and hope. I also picked up two phrases I will have to use in future - 'terminological inexactitude' (as in 'there was a lot of terminological inexactitude around the office today'), and 'you burn through a lot topics really quickly' (as in 'shut up'). An even nicer surprise than 'Mean Girls'.