Tall Girl

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.

Now, it wasn't amazing. I can see the argument that it's kind of out dated. But I will say I disagree that 6'1 isn't tall. I don't know what average heights (and shoe size) are where y'all live, but I'm only 5'8 and I get comments on how tall I am. I don't get made fun of but just pointing out how 6'1 is definitely tall here in sunny California. I don't think I know any one that tall and I would definitely notice at my school. Now over all, I think the movie was cute and entertaining. It wasn't like revelation or groundbreaking, mostly just repeated lessons of self worth that you see in most movie like this. But still, I enjoyed it.

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.

I mean, it wasn't bad... but I feel like they didn't quite catch Jodi's personality. It was mostly people telling us how amazing she is, but all we see is her being down or whinging about something. I would have liked to see the more caring and "fun" side. It was stated that she was "fun" a few times, but where was that?? It was very choppy in a few bits. Like there were scenes missing that could have added to the experience. There was one part, though, that made me a bit mad, and that was the caesarean part. I haven't had one myself, but that was incredibly offensive to millions of women. It's as though they were made to feel ugly for bringing life into this world and something that usually comes from an emergency. Not cool guys. The rest of the movie was average. In saying that, it was a nice, easy watch when you want to just turn off the brain and watch a Netflix teen romcom.

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.