leethomas-11621 I enjoy watching teen movies to see what the young generation is up to. This movie gives the modern sensibility on final year high school students wading through the confusing labyrinth of romance and dating mingled with the vicissitudes of friendship. All with the absence of any help from adults, who generally are causing more stress than they are helping out. Feel good entertainment even if there is a little too much voice-over needed to explain what Bianca is going through.

phantomastray If you're in for a light watch, click the play button right away.well, but for those who make their romantic picks very sparingly, I'd say this movie falls short in being able to develop into an ending that one can treat as satisfyingly "happily ever after".the whole story setting is of high-school romance. the lead actress(Bianca) has a crush for a guitarist/musician which settles as a sufficient persuasion to warrant all love-striken drama. However, slowly as the story unfolds, suddenly on an eventful date night, which she has been so wishfully waiting for, Bianca's love for poor guitarist wears off and she falls in love for her friend/neighbor(Wesly) dude who helped her with some dating tips and makeover advice.But wait, Bianca's newly found love just doesn't seem settling for viewers, since the story hasn't given them those handful "take the breath away" love moments. More so, because of which, Wesley's walk-off on his beautiful ex-girlfriend's rekindled romance, just seems so unfair for the poor lady.Overall this story could have benefited in developing some characters deeper, so that viewers could have empathized with their emotional u-turns.

mattkratz This is a bit of an "updated version" of Mean Girls-think that movie with social media. Mae Whitman's character learns from her neighbor and star football player that she is her friends' DUFF-designated ugly fat friend, a frequency among high school cliques. This does not go over with her, and she freaks out and tries to improve things a little bit while "changing friends." This movie does have a message-I won't ruin things by revealing it. Anyone who likes high school comedies will like this. The cast works well together, and you will like the school and teacher scenes. Overall a funny and enjoyable film.*** out of ****

sunchick116-872-583383 I see a lot of people comparing this film to movies like 'she's all that' and all the transformation movies and I want to make it clear right now this movie is not that. The main character in this film is told she's the DUFF and actively seeks help to change that. I love movies like 'she's all that' '10 things' but let's be honest, those movies are about bets and jokes on the character. This film is not that. Bianca goes into changing herself willingly to fit in and not be that person anymore. Another misconception is that the two main girls would be friends with someone like Bianca. I'm not the most attractive person, am also disabled, and was friends with the senior cheerleading squad and wrestling team AS A FRESHMAN. I'm tired of these mean spirited high school films when really my hard time was middle school. Anyway I digress. Was the film a little cliché? Yes in the sense that (maybe spoiler alert) she ends up with her neighbor she's known her whole life. However in no other movie is it a HOT neighbor. It's usually the dorky best friend who has stuck by through thick and thin. So I really liked that this film challenged that as well. I only deducted two points for the stupid fight the friends have to split up to begin with and because it wasn't nearly as funny as I was expecting. That being said, I'll still take sweet and cute.:)