Tart - Sesso, droga e... college

It's hard to find interesting new movies at video rental shops here, and by a quick review of the back cover text got me interested in this one. Popping the VHS in, I was expecting at least a decent film, but as some others have said, this just might be the worst movie I've ever seen, or at least in the last few years.

First of all, the plot goes nowhere - sure, the main character learns that special something, but the 'climax' of the film comes out of nowhere, making no sense at all. I mean, as far as I could see, the two characters that the climax takes place between had little or no interaction up until the end of the film.

Also, what character interaction took place, was utterly weird and illogical - can't give examples but believe me, you'll notice it when you follow peoples' expressions, tonal changes in the way they talk, strange little pauses between phrases... not only silly interaction, but plain bad acting, too.

Careless directing/shooting too - for example totally different facial expressions when changing the angle while the main character and her crush dance a bit. Bad recording/audio processing, the characters' voices sound totally out of place... Ugh.

The worst thing in this movie is that while it was total rubbish, you wouldn't get any camp thrills either, since you were actually expecting something...

Oh, and BTW, after seeing the film I checked the cover text again - it was plain horrible, too. Had the phrase "everything has it's price" (in Finnish, of course) three times. Also had some information about the plot that wasn't in the movie, or at least wasn't very visible.

I anticipated something with a little more substance than this, although not much. It seemed to have decent casting, a potentially interesting story, but pretty much left you going "Hunh?!" afterwards, wondering what the point of the whole thing really was. No amount of personal insight or imagination could put any of this into any kind of perspective that makes sense. It's basically just stupid. You wonder why she periodically narrates a letter to someone you're unsure of, and when you DO find out, you're confused as to why and what relevance it finally serves, which is absolutely none. The revelation that her father is jewish, among other things, as just a mention, but with some inference that it is important, is ridiculous. Idiotic waste of film.

This is another respectable entry into the genre of the unhappy and unloved teenager, going after a boy who turns out to be no prize, and trying to fit in with her fellow classmates, but how does it find its audience when the title misleads you into thinking its a sex-and-drugs movie, and the video cover misleads you into thinking it's has Melanie Griffith it when she only makes two passing appearances? -- one is her coming out of doorway. Hard to come to the film in the right frame of mind after all the deceptions.

The box to this movie totally misrepresents itself. The cover shows a view of legs & panties in a short skirt. The title is `Tart.' The synopsis on the back of the box made it seem as though Cat, the main character, was an outcast who became one of the popular students, but that popularity lead to a bizarre lifestyle that she could not escape from. Everything that the box built this movie up to was a horrible lie. I expected a sort of crappy, direct-to-video version of `Heathers' targeted at the teenagers of today.

Let me tell you what `Tart' was really about. Yes, this really is the plot; so if you don't want to know what happens, stop reading. We have one unlikable, boring rich girl. This unlikable girl's best friend is a skank. The skank gets expelled from school, so the unlikable girl befriends some British girl. This leads to the unlikable girl dating this boring guy, who the box refers to as the `most popular boy in school.' If that guy was the most popular guy in their school, I wish I would have gone to that high school, because I could have kicked the crap out of him. Anyway, as any movie will tell you, the most popular guy in school is invariably a murderer or drug addict or thief, or in this case, all of the above. Anyway, everyone ends up disliking the unlikable main character because she is Jewish. Then the most popular guy in school beats her best friend, the skank, to death with a rock because the skank caught the most popular boy in a homosexual act. The unlikable girl's stoic mother and hypochondriac younger brother are there for her at the end. Oh, and the entire movie is about snotty rich kids and their horrible parents too. Gee, what is wrong with that? That sounds like a fantastic movie! Well, that's what I thought. But you see, there are NO likeable characters in this movie. The main character is boring. The filmmakers made her average, while during the film she keeps spouting off about what a freak she is. The skank is not skanky enough, and has little screen time. The popular guy is nothing to write home about. The popular girls are just your run-of-the-mill rich girls. There are no moral lessons. Cat, the boring main character, is not a freak, does not ever become one of the truly popular girls, and (worst of all) after all the crap she goes through, she thinks she is still too good to befriend the only nice girl, the dorky girl. To be honest, I have no idea why the movie is called Tart. I kept asking, who's the tart? Is she the tart? Are they all tarts? At 94 minutes, theoretically this is not a long movie. But after actually watching this awful waste of a VHS tape, and not knowing who the tart was, I was surprised that the movie was only an hour and a half. The movie felt like it was two hours and some change. After a while, I was hoping the movie would be about pop tarts. At least when you look at a box of pop tarts, you know what to expect.

Can someone tell me what is the song title we hear at 50min I have done some researches and couldn't find it even with the lyrics: If the little boy, likes the little girl, he should give her the world to that little girl. Tell her that he loves her, put his arms around her, chase the clouds away. If the little girl, likes the little boy, she shouldn't get upset, she shouldn't get annoyed, if that little boy, takes a little time waking up his heart, making up is mind. Note: it sounds like a song from Leonard Cohen