After

The teen angst is so over played and corney. My eyes hurt and my ears are needing from the corn fest. Normally I'd like abit if corniness but this is beyond what I'd tolerate.

First things first, I clearly do not belong to the intended audience which is probably narrowed to female and romantic teens, between 11 and 15 years old. Possibly older, with a touch of nostalgia. Tessa, an ingenuous teen, leaves home, mum and high school in order to integrate university, her roommate inviting her to join an idle and carefree group. She meets there Hardin, a rebel without a cause (Nicholas Ray, 1956) but with a keen interest in literature, like herself. The continuation is relatively predictable and indubitably goofy. My own rating: 2/3 out of 10. My rating while trying to belong to the intended audience, with a generous empathy boosted to the extreme: 4/5 out of 10.

My wife and I watched this at home on BluRay, while it contains nothing particularly novel it is a mostly well written and well acted story.

A few years ago this website, IMDb, was pretty useful. Not so much now that "reviewers" are allowed to write one-sentence non-reviews and give a movie a "1" or a "10" rating for no good reasons. This movie is neither of those two extremes, and if you ignore the highest and lowest votes, the vast middle set of votes show it to be about a "6" which is appropriate when you compare it to other movies of similar themes.

Already done many times, a good student goes to college only to be exposed to lots of things that surprise her, and in the process meets a boy that by all reason she should stay away from but his magnetic personality draws her in. When it is all done she sees the world in a different way, this is her "after" the experiences.

Josephine Langford, a young and pretty Australian actress, is very good in the role. We watch, we know we have seen it all before, but it is still interesting to see where it goes. Not a superb movie but not trash either, a decent watch for those who enjoy an interesting college romance story.

The fact that this movie won 3 Teen Choice Awards is seriously disturbing. Is this the kind of movie we want to promote to the female teen audience? Bad boy just needs a good woman to tame him. NO! This is a toxic relationship, and we need to stop promoting it! So many teen movies have this at the core and it's sending the wrong message. This is not what a good and healthy relationship looks like. This is what you RUN from. Ladies, you're not responsible for "fixing" a man.

I was entertained by this movie. However, Tessa is kind of a terrible person in this movie. She has a great boyfriend who loves and cares for her, but she cheats on him because a British dude touches her hand and takes her swimming? It's hard to root for their love when the whole time I'm stuck on how she broke Noah's heart and never got the comeuppance she deserved