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Ignore the negative reviews and give this movie a chance.

Yes, you've seen the "popular kid befriends nerd to manipulate them for the benefit of the popular kid only to experience a change of heart" movie before.

But you've never seen it done like this.

Angourie Rice - a criminally underutilized and under-appreciated actress - gets to shine in this role. The breaking of the 4th wall to talk directly to the audience throughout the film and keep the viewer on the "inside" of Honor's less than honorable plan is a fun twist and great storytelling mechanism.

The big twist at the end was also unexpected - I mean, you know SOMETHING was coming but I don't think many saw that coming.

Is this an award winning, groundbreaking film?

No - but it takes a tried and true formula of coming of age/romcom movies we have seen for decades - and comes at it from a different angle, with a slightly different outcome than we've seen before. Most people will laugh/smile/tear up throughout.

The result is an enjoyable 97 minutes.

Not another teen movie with young adults playing high school students? Yes, but this one's a winner. It's clever, witty, engaging, has heart and is knocked out of the park by a star winning performance by Angourie Rice. I enjoyed how the tone shifted from Machiavellian to honesty and truth, though the counselor/student sub plot is a little creepy. Should appeal to all ages and I'm an old dude.

The Movie was fun , light , entertainment I would recommend it to anyone who wants to watch a fun movie . Just turn it on and have fun . Congratulations to the everyone behind this movie and thank you for making a fun easy too watch . And again it's FUN really FUN.

There is something special about this movie, although it doesn't have great comedy, romance, thrill and star-cast/budget to get a 7 from me but the story telling is so delightful that I couldnt resist. The character development and twist in the movie is delightful and surprising at the same time. I watched this movie because I really like Angourie from The Nice Guys. As mentioned in the other reviews she is really underrated compared to other Young/ teenage celebrities like Millie Bobby, Jenna Ortega etc.

Back to the film, it is very delightful tale of a young ambitious girl who is ambitious and driven yet has a heart of gold which you'll like if you are into that sort of emotional tale.

The tone is inconsistent but the performances from Angourie Rice and Gaten Matarazzo and style from director Oran Zegman make this an enjoyable, but singular watch.

Tsunami of high school chatter, a film narrated in 1st person period, the anchor role tells and plays the role of honor supposedly the brightest girl at school. Being set up by her principal telling her that she is one outta 4 brightest at the school makes her panic and press every button there are to make the others fail at the midterms. The prizecarrot on the string is a schollarship at harvard.

Well its a comedy of 2022, verbal, digital and social media driven, the story seems to never eject , even though the sexual hints flourish like a swollen orchiid. The main actress does a decent job, as well as the main cast, but the moment of no return or jump of at the turn aint there.i really miss the slapstick and medeval pranks that made a comedy a good comedy in the past. The story spins endlessly into nothing

so a few giggles, and a couple of smiles with a small recommend comes from the grumpy old man.

I was pleasantly surprised with this movie. It's a teenage/high school movie with the typical student types associated with high school. You have the popular girls/boys, jocks, nerds/geeks. Bullies, & uber smart students. But what's surprising is they (student types) do not play your stereotype roles normally associated with the tag. Not sure if this is more representative of todays high schoolers, or simply the writers' wishes of what high school should be.

Angourie Rice did a superb job as the lead protagonist, Honor. An extremely talented young actor. Something I've noticed since seeing her on the three Spider-Man reboot. I bet we'll be seeing more of her in movies in the future.

This movie has the flavour of blending together, "Clueless" & "Mean Girls". But with less mean, and more heart. And splash it with a few twist and turns along the way, it's a high school, and friends we wish we all had during our teen years. A great feel good movie for the family.

SUMMARY: Highly recommended viewing. The short synopsis does not do the movie justice. Go watch it.

The story was decent. The ending was kinda surprising. There are some pretty funny jokes. Great casting. A good feature film debut for Gaten Matarazzo.

This movie isn't great, but it's definitely watchable. Good performances all around. The writing was okay. Some things were just a bridge too far for the suspension of disbelief.

HONOR SOCIETY (2022)

Tagline: Getting to the top means taking down your competition.

(Drama, Young Adult, Downer) PG-13

Note: This movie was released directly to Paramount +, so it didn't get an MPAA rating, but I think it would have been a PG-13.

In this one, a girl named Honor is desperate to get into Harvard when it becomes apparent that she is up against some other competition against 3 other students she feels she needs to take out of the running by distracting them from getting good grades.

First off, the preview for this thing is misleading as hell. It makes you think that this is going to be a fun little comedy mostly centered around Honor played by Angourie Rice (SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING) and Michael played by Gaten Matarazzo (STRANGER THINGS). Instead, we get a movie that only has a few scenes with those two and most of those are in the preview. This is a FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF-like movie that does a lot of fourth wall breaking but most of it is not in a good way. I say that because "Honor" the main character is a lot like Ferris in the sense that she is really just about herself and uses people. I will say more on this later in the review.

Where this movie fails is in just being overall misleading in its promotions and trailer, but it's also not a comedy. Perhaps if you consider movies like SPONTANEOUS funny, then I guess for you might be slightly comedy. I didn't see humor anywhere in this damn thing. Another issue is the actual fourth wall problem. Honor as a character is just a disaster of a person, but nearly every time she breaks the fourth wall it's to patronize the audience watching the movie. There are lots of parts of this film where Honor assumes you are basically an idiot and can't follow the movie's pretty simplistic rehashed plot.

Another issue I had with this thing is the fact that even in 2022, we are still getting films overplaying the importance of going to college. This isn't the 1980s. No one these days "needs" to go to college or their life is over. If anything college for most people ends up being a huge waste of time and money IF they are not taking classes that will lead to a real career. We also get a pretty jacked-out scene where the movie is kind of trying to paint Queen Mary (the first ever Queen of England, a Catholic who was also referred to as "Bloody Mary") as a saint. I guess it depends on your perspective, but she is well known for burning at least 300 Protestants at the stake. I have no freaking idea what the writer was really going for here, but there is a scene in here that is essentially a celebration of her.

As if not being funny isn't bad enough, this movie also takes some pretty dark turns for a movie most people are probably going to go into hoping is light and fluffy. By the end of the movie you pretty much want to not have anything to do with any of these characters. Yes, Honor does have some character growth, but this comes late in the movie, then at the very end, we are shown more scenes that kind of lead you to believe she's learned nothing. While this might be more realistic than having things work out, it's also a LOT less fun making this movie a downer with little to offer other than seeing people you wanted to root for absolutely suck.

Overall, I wish this movie was as funny and clever as the previews would lead us to believe, but instead it's a poorly written mess with some ideas feeling like they were afterthoughts and not part of the original script.

For me, this is a 2 out of 7. Not the worst movie of 2022, but it's way down there.

This is a much better movie than I thought it would be. I started watching it just to kill time before bedtime, streaming on Prime, but Angourie Rice is so good as Honor Rose that I got immersed in it.

It is about a group of high school students, mostly about the four top seniors who are being evaluated for a nomination to Harvard. Honor wants it really badly, she pretty well knows who the other three are, so she sets about to systematically detract them from their studies with important midterms coming up.

While her plan is working she also learns more about each one of them and unwittingly helps them achieve things that were lacking. A side story is one of her competitors writing a play and having it produced by the senior class. The underlying message is to be your best self that you can be and care about others.

Good movie. Did I mention how good Angourie Rice is in the role of Honor Rose?

It had a great story line, i honestly wasn't a fan of her talking to the camera the majority of the movie mostly in the beginning/ middle... but i was really rooting for michael & honor. It had an unexpected but surprisingly good twist.. would watch it again but probably no more than twice................

I'm a sucker for a narrated movie - and to do a decent job with a high school themed one is even better. Protagonist wants to get into her college of choice by taking out other front runners at her HS...but ends up finding friends. Cliche, maybe...but enjoyable.

The premise of Honor Society is an overachiever student taking down her competitors to get into Harvard. It's not groundbreaking, but for the most of part, it's fun. It's witty, well paced, well acted by the main actor, and strangely, there is little to none cringe lines and no excessively annoying characters, considering it's a teen drama film.

Lots of plot twists and turns, some of the humor are (semi)-dark and heavy, but they covered it in glitters so it's pretty to look at. Everything is great until the third act and this is the main issues with this film. It started as this 'dark-witty-comedy', and it ended up as a wholesome friendship-is-the-real-treasure-all-along type of film.

I guess it's not a problem for some people, but for me it's a bit out of balance, kinda lame, minor pc agenda that a bit too much, and somewhat defeat the purpose of the premise. Overall, it's a good watch.

7.5/10.

A Paramount+ original from earlier this year starring Spider-Man's Betty Brant Angourie Rice. Rice is hoping to get a letter of recommendation but she gets a bucket of cold water dumped on her when her advisor, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, tells her there are 2 other nominees in the running so Rice decides to throw a wrench in the works sabotaging her competitors chances. The first student, Amy Keum, who has a long standing obsession w/fashion design but who has subsumed these interests due to her scholastic endeavors, is lured by Rice to design the costumes for an upcoming school musical while the other student in the running, Stranger Things' Gabe Matarazzo, is an easier mark for her since all she has to do is use her feminine wiles to distract his forward momentum. Things take a turn however when she ends up falling for him which sends the film into a 180 spin which in my opine it doesn't recover from. Rice's character is cut from the same cloth as Reese Witherspoon's Tracy Flick from Election & although we get glimpses of her take no prisoners attitude (treating her BFF's like company underlings & using her body & a pencil sharpener to seduce Matarazzo) the turnabout is not merited when a softer reboot (seeing the error of her ways but playfully shrugging off the life lessons) would've gotten the film to the same place.

Overall it is a very good movie, but ending feels rushed and generic.

Still script(loved Goodman since he wrote that Futurama episode) and Rice acting make it an enjoyable watch.

Another teen movie with a bullying element. For the past 50 or so years we have had basically EVERY teen movie have a bullying element within the first 20 minutes.

Hollywood and/or rather media companies are on the front line of combating this problem IF THEY choose to do so.

Kids are heavily influenced by what they watch, perhaps stop putting it in there. Sure we like seeing the good guy/girl win but SERIOUSLY you can do better without having to have a bully present...

It starts with you and the usual parenting but it could easily be just stopped.....

In terms of this movie we really have seen IT ALL BEFORE multiple times....

The whole movie was great but s**t ending. When the final act started it was so s**ty I couldn't even watch it. I had to skip forward. But the acting by both the leads was pretty good. Gaten Matarazoo had surprisingly less seens than I was expecting but Angourie Rice was good.

I loved the movie and the characters, it was funny and witty, but the twist was unexpected, but I sort of wish the character in the twist showed remorse or was faking it. I was rooting for a happier ending, but overall it was a great movie and I had no trouble rewatching it, I've already watched it twice, so far. I would love to see all of the characters return for a sequel. It was funny, and the bloopers at the end show how much fun everyone had making the movie, I would love if they got the chance to make a sequel of this movie, I think it would be awesome to see where they take this story and they definitely leave it where it doesn't necessarily need a sequel to complete the story, but I think a sequel would be fun and potentially even better.

Honor Rose (Angourie Rice) is desperate to get into Harvard and get out of her little town. First, she needs a recommendation from guidance councilor Mr. Calvin (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) who is a longtime friend to an important Harvard alumni. She is shocked when he tells her that there are three other students on his list; perfect jock and student Travis Biggins (Armani Jackson), school oddball Kennedy Smith (Amy Keum), and bullied nerd Michael Dipnicky (Gaten Matarazzo). She is willing to scheme and manipulate anyone to get her way.

Obviously, I'm getting a whole lot of Tracy Flick vibe at the beginning. Honor is not quite that and she doesn't have a teacher-nemesis. So, this starts a little wonky. She's not actually likeable initially, but she does grow. That's the appeal. I do question two characters' turn. First, Dipnicky's reveal needs more foreshadowing. I was uncertain about the break-in at first, but it is good foreshadowing. His character needs more of that since Gaten does not have that sensibility. Second, it's Mr. Calvin. It's very creepy. It doesn't match the general tone of the movie even after the roofies. I expected the recommendation to go to Kennedy after the live-streaming news. That would work a lot better. Travis can always get a Lacrosse scholarship. Honor has a different path than her Harvard destination. I really don't like that creepy turn, but it's a minor bump in the road.

Well this movie provided me with such an uncomfortable experience. I have seen more comedy when my dog goes potty. I can not find a redeeming aspect in the movie, between the horrible writing and stupid approach to the story the actors potential was wasted.

Should you decide to waste your time in something please play Candy Crush this movie is not worth it.