Tall Girl

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.

Tall girl is a movie about a tall girl. Thats the movie, and don't you dare forget it. My favorite part was when the protagonist, Jodi, was tall.

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.

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.

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.