Wie Jodi über sich hinauswuchs

Pun aside, this is a very straightforward teen comedy. Ugly or in that case tall duckling included. It's still pretty neat and it may surprise you once or twice even if it is quite predictable overall. It is well played by the actors who have to fight through the obvious and try to maintain a mystery and suspense, even if we as viewers know better.

So overall decent, but more aimed at a certain audience who will leap this up and take it all in with gusto.

I'm not going to rant on about the plot because you can Google it but I will say that this is an adorable movie that for once didn't have the clearest ending. For once the main characters weren't 30 year olds playing 17 year olds and I think it was, overall, pretty realistic. The characters were pretty good and, as a short girl, I couldn't always relate to Jodi but the movie is about so much more than just height.

Started watching this movie and it was watchable up until the point the "Swedish" exchange student began to speak English with a forced accent that didn't even sound remotely like a Swede speaking English and then his "Swedish" was clearly an American that had learnt a few lines of Swedish... Why couldn't Netflix actually get an authentic Swedish actor for this role? Immediately after this the credibility of the movie was shot and we stopped watching .. it was too painful to listen to.

Severely underwhelming coming of age film with some really strange choices at times re: parental shame, Cesareans, and stalking friendzoned chumps that can't take a hint.

Choppy edits, poor takes on the "mean girl" trope and no developed relationships between anyone. Surface level and cringe.

Swedish accent was also atrocious.

Little redeeming quality apart from picture and audio quality, which is a given from Netflix.

Some turns the movie takes are a bit annoying, and the score is too noticeable and tiresome after a while. But otherwise I actually liked it for the most part in its first hour or so. It's an innocent little teen comedy and I don't see too much wrong with that personally. However, most things toward the end are unforgivably kitschy and cringey which really brings the whole flick down by a lot. The performances, even if by people who mostly didn't act much or at all before, are very solid. Tall Girl overall is so surface level and just not good enough, even if it has some honestly good flashes of a kinda nice movie. On a sidenote I gotta say Maggie Rogers' Light On at the end was such a nice surprise, but the song was edited weirdly which sort of fits this whole movie. It could have easily been so much better, but simply wasn't in the end because of odd choices in the script which made the flick feel silly by the time the credits started to roll.