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How in the world this movie was ever green lighted? Non-existing story, shallow characters, stereotypes, it's a total, pretentious mess. No link between scenes, no interactions between characters, half of them are useless, just filling up. It tries so hard to be cute, funny, it's just painful to watch. All the awards it received must result from PC culture and diversity quotas. It's a shame, because there are many, many more talented film makers with Mexican background.

This film is a total mess: dramatically, there's no tension, no direction, just a chain of scenes loosely tied up to each other, and the majority of them completely unnecessary, way too long and just plain boring. Lisa's character is frankly despicable, selfish and shallow. Her motivations are unclear, and at some point it seemed that she just wanted to release her own guilt over the accident that she was partly responsible for. If the director's intentions were to confront her idealistic vision of life and the world around, well, he failed and created instead an annoying and frankly spiteful. I understand that the director wanted to create the ultimate teenage movie, but it's just a total mess. Don't waste almost 3 hours of your time on it.