Easy A was better than expected!
It is the story of a high school girl who gets paid to lie that she is having sex with the guys in her class. No worries for the kiddies going to this movie, she's not.
Olive (played by Emma Stone) is a modern-age Hester Pryne from the book the Scarlet Letter, right down to putting a red "A" on all of her clothes.
Reminiscent of a John Hughes movie, they do him justice with a reference and a montage of films.
You can't help but immediately love Olive, who is clever and sharp tongued but in a way that does not suggest she is above those around her. She has a humor beyond her age that is similar to that in Juno, just less independent-movie-ish! I like that writers are realizing that kids are smart and funny and not necessarily adolescent.
So many versions of Cinderella and Taming of the Shrew have been retold set in modern teen times, it's great that they have finally chosen a new book to adapt. Now if they just can figure out how to adapt "To Kill a Mockingbird" in modern teen humor and angst...
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