True Heiress vs. Fake Queen Bee

I hate movies where the antagonist gets the upper hand simply because the protagonist is an idiot. This is one such movie.

Clueless rich girl is the new girl at school and decides to cosplay being poor to "feel normal". Rich girl is shocked when she is mercilessly bullied. She even has a knife pulled on her ....WHAT? How is a student even able to have a knife at school? The daughter of rich girl's maid has decided to seize the opportunity to pretend to be said rich girl, her and her two followers proceed to be cartoonishly evil to rich girl. Early on, rich girl decides to confess (sans any proof) that she is the true heiress, of course nobody believes her. Rich girl later has plenty of opportunities to provide proof of her identity, but doesn't because....reasons.

Plot was silly and full of holes (wouldn't teachers and administrators have both girls' full names?), sound was hollow in one scene, acting ranged from decent to cringey. The protagonist is bland, the antagonist is one- dimensional as are several of the supporting characters.

Even though she is bullied, given detention repeatedly, accused of being a liar and a thief, rich girl keeps up the facade because it's so important to her to be a normal teen, even though most of what she goes through is not a normal teen experience. 3/10.

This is so bad... yet I couldn't stop watching. It's like Temu decided to make its own version of Mean Girls.

I saw a random clip on TikTok and, instead of scrolling past it, I got hooked on the awful writing and decided to track down the full thing. Well, "full" is a stretch - I only managed to watch random bits, like a badly stitched patchwork quilt, but enough to follow the saga of a rich heiress whose identity is stolen by a classmate. And here's the most ridiculous part: she spends 90% of the time doing nothing, just getting humiliated and harassed, when she could easily smack the impostor and reveal she's the actual millionaire. But no - this film, miniseries, or whatever it is, prefers to drag out her suffering, almost like a psychological torture porn rated PG. Think Martyrs or Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, but without the graphic violence - just a girl being put through every kind of psychological abuse possible, adapted for a teen audience.

The rating I'm giving it might seem low, but honestly, it's the highest I can go for something this questionable. Still, it's the best "piece of crap" I've ever seen. I hated how they dragged the story out to oblivion... yet I was absolutely hooked. This should genuinely be studied by science to understand how something so mediocre can be so addictive.

Oh, where do I start. So I have checked out Reelshort in the past, and wasn't very impressed, but the previous commercial peaked my interest. I gave it ago, and I just binged it... It's both hilariously bad that it's a comedy while also being good in other ways.

The entire thing is formulaic, which is understandable, has a really tight budget, and while it tells, it still is respectable for being produced just on people buying coins, a subscription, or just watching ads.

Now the acting. There's something to say that you get the young actors, who are still perfecting their trade, and getting acting credit, to get into larger roles. Maya Jenson who played Hailey, Kendall Leonesio, and Liana Chao all did a pretty amazing job with what they had, and it's honestly impressive. Maya Jenson portrayed a pretty convincing character, and Liana I swear was tapping into her ego to play Candice. The guy who played Luke, just seemed natural at his role. Now the adults... they all are horrible actors! Minus the gym teacher, he seemed to have embraced what it is to be a gym teacher. You might as well have just dropped my sophmore gym teachers personality in him.

Overall if you have time to kill and just want a good laugh, and cringe all the time, this flick is for you.

Just one thing, the story is hilariously disjointed. I swear they took a 12 year old girl from wattpad and had her write the story.

I have to say, i saw quite a few clips of it and from the start I knew I had to watch it. Yes it has tiktok production and tacky overcoats that I usually wouldnt like but I have to say I loved every minute of it. It wasnt produced as a big blockbuster movie, its a fun and exciting comedy, if you look past the somewhat cringe feel and previously stated tiktokness you can appreciate it for what it actually is. It was fun, it was funny and it was actually entertaining, which is more than I can say for 90% of the new releases. Everything being released nowadays is either a prequel, a sequel, or a live action remake, its nice to have something wacky every once in a while.

If you were watching this expecting it to be the next big hit then you were soreley mistaken, its a portrait production for petes sake, but if you have a sense of humour then you can appreciate it. The casting was great, the acting was great and the production was as great as it could be. I think if people lightened up and stopped taking everything so seriously then they could enjoy it also.

10/10.

True Heiress vs. Fake Queen Bee Is a school-based drama that has the potential to address important themes, but its execution unfortunately remains superficial and unconvincing. There are a few moments in the show, where I got some giggles, but not in a good way :D. The character development is lacking, the plot is formulaic, and the show relies heavily on excessive dramatization without real reasons behind it. While the series offers some entertaining moments, it fails to provide the audience with anything deep or insightful.

Only thing that the show does right is the marketing. I was spammed with adds of True Heiress vs. Fake Queen Bee on TikTok.

Overall I watched the show but its mid.😎🤘🏽🔥🌞