Prismark10 Olive Penderghast (Emma Stone) is a high school student who lies to her best friend Rhiannon that she has lost her virginity. The lie goes round the school and quickly she is regarded as a slut and soon Olive dresses like one.To prevent her gay friend Brandon from bullying, they pretend to have sex at a party while the others listen to their screams from outside the door. Later Olive helps out a fat friend by letting him say that he went out with her in exchange for some gift vouchers. Pretty soon a student who gets Chlamydia tells everyone he got it off Olive as it was the easier thing to do.However Olive's life spirals out of control as nobody sees the real her. Men just want to use her. Even her easy going parents are concerned about her.Easy A is the epitome of efficient writing. If you are a budding screenwriter or want to make your own movies, just make a careful study of it. It even wears its influences on its sleeves. Everything referenced to in this film, it will come back to later. As an example Olive is studying the book The Scarlet Letter at school. Well Olive gets branded as a harlot and she plays up to it by wearing even more revealing clothes with a big label A. Olive mentions 80s brat pack movies of John Hughes. At the end of the film there is a pointless song and dance number just like Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I did like the reference to Huckleberry Finn that would later come back like a boomerang.Easy A is fresh and amusing with charming performances from the cast, especially Emma Stone. However it is not as clever as it thinks it is and the wheels fall off as the film goes along. For a start I find it hard to believe that Olive is the only high school student who has had sex!Many of the characters are paper thin and one dimensional. There are lazy stereotypes of Christians but the worse is the one Indian high schooler who speaks with an Indian twang.So Hollywood film studios cannot have a second generation character of Indian origin who was born and raised in America in this day and age?

kakuraffe There are so many great things about this movie that it's easy to rewatch it at least once or twice a year. A great tribute to the outstanding John Hughes movies from the 80s, Easy A has a great cast, soundtrack, and pretty decent storyline... Despite the fact that in 2010 California a 17 year old having sex was earth shattering somehow. (And they could have definitely done without Lisa Kudrow and her goofy acting.) All the small irks are overclouded by the great things it offers. Emma Stone was brilliant as a Gilmore Girl talking Olive with quite possibly the best movie parents in the world (Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci). High school is hard, no matter when, where, or why. The movie delivers the best advice that it will pass and finding a way to go through it is key.

Jackson Booth-Millard This was the first leading performance from the actress, whose name became part of the infamous "envelopegate" Best Picture mistake at the Oscars, she deserved her awards for La La Land, and I looked forward to seeing her earliest big break, directed by Will Gluck (Friends with Benefits, Annie). Basically in Ojai, California, 17-year-old Olive Penderghast (Golden Globe nominated Emma Stone) lies to her best friend Rhiannon Abernathy (Aly Michalka) to get out of going on a camping trip with Rhiannon's parents, Olive tells her that she went on a date. In fact, Olive stays home to listen to Natasha Bedingfield's "Pocketful of Sunshine", a song played in a greeting card from her grandmother. The following Monday, Olive is pressed by Rhiannon about what happened on this unreal date, Olive lies that she lost her virginity to a guy from college. Prissy and strictly religious Christian student Marianne (Amanda Bynes) overhears their conversation, she gossips and Olive's lie spreads like wild fire, she it at first uncomfortable with the attention. Olive tells the truth to her friend Brandon (Dan Byrd), he explains that he is being bullied for being homosexual, he asks Olive to pretend to sleep with him, to be accepted by everyone as a "straight stud". Brandon convinces Olive to help her, behind a closed bedroom door they pretend to have sex at a party. Following a fight with Rhiannon, who calls her a "dirty skank", Olive finds the attention towards her increasing as flattering, so she embraces and counteracts her "school tramp" image. Olive wears more provocative clothes, stitching a red "A" to everything she wears, this is a reference to the novel The Scarlet Letter, it stands for "adulteress". Boys who usually have no luck with girls start to beg Olive to help them, to say that she had sex with them, to increase their popularity, she agrees, in exchange for gift cards for various stores, in turn increasing her reputation. But then things get worse, Marianne's boyfriend Micah (Cam Gigandet) contracts chlamydia from sleeping with school guidance counsellor Mrs. Griffith (Lisa Kudrow), Micah blames Olive, Mrs. Griffith asks Olive to cover up the affair, so she can keep her job and her reputation, Olive agrees. Rhiannon becomes part of Marianne's religious clique, they begin harassing Olive in order to get her to leave school. Olive has an ill-fated date with Anson (Jake Sandvig), who wants to pay her for sex, and not just pretend, then she starts to reconnect with school mascot and her old love interest "Woodchuck" Todd (Penn Badgley). Todd tells Olive that he does not believe any of the rumours about her, because he remembers the time when she lied for him when he was not ready for his first kiss years ago. Olive then begins to ask everyone she lied for to help her out by telling the truth, but Brandon and Micah have left town, and everyone else refuses, they enjoy their newfound popularity and don't want the truth to get out. Mrs. Griffith also refuses to tell the truth, Olive threatens to expose her affair, but Mrs. Griffith rebuffs her, saying no one will believe her. Out of spite, Olive tells the truth to Mr. Griffith (Thomas Haden Church), he believes her and separates from his wife. After Olive talks openly about her situation to her parents, open-minded mother Rosemary (Patricia Clarkson) and equally supportive father Dill (Stanley Tucci), she comes up with a plan to get everything out in the open. Olive does a suggestive song and dance number at the school pep rally to get everyone's attention, and tells them to watch her via web cam, in fact she confesses what she has done, many are seen watching, including the various boys Olive helped. Olive texts Rhiannon, apologising for lying to her, she finishes her web broadcast, Todd is outside on a lawnmower telling her to come outside. Olive signs off the broadcast, saying she may lose her virginity to Todd, and proudly declares "it's nobody's goddamn business", Olive goes outside, she and Todd share a kiss and are seen riding off on the lawnmower. Also starring Malcolm McDowell as Principal Gibbons, Fred Armisen as Pastor, Morgan Rusler as Mr. Abernathy and Nikki Tyler-Flynn as Mrs. Abernathy. Stone has great charisma as the girl who is flattered by the attention she gains as the floozy of the school, it is a very simple story of how one lie about a non-existent fling can get blown out of proportion and add to up to amusingly increasing consequences, and it has a very witty script, a smart and fun teen comedy. Very good!

TonyMontana96 (Originally reviewed: 23/02/2017) Emma Stone is an actress of both talent and beauty; and she pretty much lays claim to this film. Easy A may not be overwhelmingly funny but it does have its moments of pure comedic gold; one which includes a joke about Tom Cruise's Scientology belief; in which Stone is told she will answer to a higher power very soon; in which she says "Tom Cruise", for anyone who is aware of Tom Cruise's religion and what Scientology is about, there's a good chance you will find this amusing. The picture operates at a rapid pace at times with its story but manages to keep rather smart for the first half; there's also some good one liners and some nice scenes involving Stone's character and Penn Badgley (Todd) with real chemistry, and Stone with her family where you can see a more mild sense of comedy, but one that is certainly funny and harmless and kudos to Will Gluck as well; for his decent direction.The second half is where I started to complain: instead of a better plot device it decides to go into unnecessary religious territory, with constant babbling about god and sins and the usual religious nonsense; but why does a teen comedy about an intellectual young lady have to involve religion; to me it felt preachy and forced, I did not care for any of the religious stuff that was too over the top, and though there are mild religious themes within the first half; never did it become preachy. I also found a lot of the jokes during the midsection to be stale and there's were too many times during the film where I didn't laugh because at least half of them felt recycled or just plain unfunny. Easy A also has an awful performances from Amanda Bynes (Marriane), this character was the leader of the religious group, and she was just annoying, and void of actual talent; I'm betting she's a model or something and if she is; she should stick to that profession. The other noticeable supporting actors are good, this included Thomas Haden Church (Mr Griffith), Patricia Clarkson (Olive's mother), Stanley Tucci (Olive's father) and Lisa Kudrow as Mrs Griffith. The screenplay could have been better but there are just enough fresh dialogue, funny moments and solid scenes to warrant a recommendation; Seeing Emma Stone insult Demi Moore's British accent in the remake of the Scarlett Letter is at least worth the price of admission.