﻿Rich, snobby, high school kids and 2 wanna be’s.This is giving me Mean Girls meets Superstar
meets Clueless. Not exactly what I was expecting but then again not what I wasn’t expecting.
What does that even mean?
I just be talking sometimes.
I am not the target audience for this film. Definitely had no intention to check it out but
because it has been requested. Here we are. These Blush Bunnies present. Do Revenge.
Well, you know what I take that back. I said I wasn’t the target audience but I’m not so
sure of that being as though none of the people in the film are high school aged.
One character in particular looked like she could’ve been somebody’s mom and I was gravely
confused of what was happening for a second. Like is this a different timeframe or what?
But I’m getting ahead of myself. Just in case you have no idea
what I’m talking about let me set the scene. Drea is a wanna be. She wants to be like any and
everybody but herself. From the way she presents herself, all the way to the university she plans
to attend. In this case Yale. Her boyfriend, I guess, if that's what you want to call him,
is heading off to school and he asked for her to send him off with a going away gift.Video…of
herself. He decides to send that around school. She being an outlier of the school is then
amplified and then she meets Eleanor. A new girl who also has an issue with a student at the school
for outing her with false claims attached. Eleanor and Drea decide to team up to do revenge on each
other's enemy and the drama begins to unfold. Now This is typical of high school movies,
someone wanting to be in the in crowd. And everybody’s turning their backs on them like,
girl gone somewhere with that. We don’t wanna be your friend. And you ugly anyways. Well,
they didn’t call her ugly but in so many words they did call her poor. So that fits the mode.
Here’s my problem with the movie and I kind of just mentioned it. Everybody is old. If they
aren’t old, they look old. I almost felt like I was watching grease. Which sidenote, when I saw
Grease for the first time, I was a child and I just assumed that’s how high schoolers looked,
I had no way of calling it out back then. The age limit in that movie is criminal. But with
this one I just couldn't stay in the drama of it all because I didn’t fully buy it. These
people look like they should be catching up on the latest news at the water dispenser. Giving advice
on which elementary school has the best college trajectory for their kids. Yes I said elementary.
You know people think about that earlier every decade. These people should be meeting up at
an after work affair for drinks, and in bed by 9 pm. Planning out their entire Saturday filled with
responsibilities and errands, only to wake up, go to starbucks, come back home, completely neglect
everything on their to-do list by binging lifetime Saturday movies waiting for the premiere of a new
one at 8 o’clock. And no I’m not talking about myself, this is just something I happened to hear
about while I was waiting to fill my water bottle at the dispenser one day. Can you pick up what
I’m putting down here? Am I alone in feeling this way because if I am by all means, speak up…However
comma. I don’t see how you can view it any other way.You would really have to
convince me that I’m not tripping right now. Now if you’ve watched my other video’s or to be
more specific, The Never Have I Ever series, then you know that the age of the actors as
it pertains to their performances, I saw no problem with it. Sometimes
it’s not a bother for me, sometimes it is. This time it was just tough for me to take
it seriously that this so-called group of teens was going through this drama.They should’ve set
this to be in college. At least in college there are a wide range of ages, you could be a college
freshman at 40 and nobody can say anything because it just is what it is, you don’t pay my bills.
Or they should have just cast different actors because it was super distracting for me. Speaking
of being distracted by the actors, and this is of no fault to her but the Uma Thurman,
Ethan Hawke hybrid. How do you look exactly like both of your parents at the same time but look
like them separately all in one? Like how is that even possible? I wasn’t distracted in a
bad way with that one. I was more so amazed. Like wow, this…this is happening. This is a thing.
Enough about my distractions, let's get into the story. I would have to say that I was pleasantly
surprised by how this story took a turn and it was next to perfect the way it was executed. I
did not see the plot twist coming. So I told you, they both have these grudges right? And they are
out to get revenge. They do a couple of smaller things like expose how mysongoistic Drea’s ex is.
They give everybody food poisoning yada yada. And through all of it they were forming a friendship.
But at some point Drea turned their friendship into being about her and her problems and that
is where we began to see a different side to Eleanor. Her true colors shined through and
she laid it all out on the table. We learn that the person she was getting revenge on was Drea
this entire time. She thought she had changed but she hadn’t and thus her plan had to commence.
I love the fact that the whole reason as to why Drea didn’t realize that she was the one that
Eleanor was after was because she was a true mean girl. To the core. Do you know how evil
and conniving you have to be to completely forget that you purposely set out to hurt
someone? You guys met as kids at camp and even though you got along, you decided to
spread a rumor about misconduct taking place. That’s a pretty heavy lie. And you can’t even
recall. Now that’s how you write a mean girl. However…comma. And it’s unfortunate that I have
to say this. I think they did a terrible job at writing the mean boy aka Drea’s ex- Max.
His whole reason for sending her special video that she recorded just for him, around school,
was because she was just like him. Their personalities were one in the same and he couldn’t
have that so he had to destroy her. I mean gave a whole monologue like it was a mic drop moment and
I’m just sitting there like. What? Girl what? That was one of the most anti-climactic reasons
they could come up with. It just didn’t give what they thought it would. I get it. He is supposed
to be a narcissist and with that he’s got to do whatever it is he needs to do to keep the
attention, and be the most important person in the room. But where is the meat and potatoes to
this? You invited me over to dinner just to serve broccoli. With no seasoning, no butter, no cheese,
nothing to jazz it it up. Just here, eat this broccoli. This is not fulfilling. This is not what
I signed up for. Where is the rest of the meal? To fix this excuse of a plotpoint, they could
have had the two of them dating for awhile and he noticed that the attention was going
to her instead of him and that set him off. And the cherry on top could be her
being ungrateful of what he does for her.. Like give us something of a little more
substance. They dropped the ball there. But where did they exceed all expectations
?The mise en scene. I rarely comment on it but I absolutely would be doing a disservice
in this case if I didn’t mention it. The set and costume design in this film trumps everything.
Forget the story. Forget the rugrats all grown up. Aesthetically? This film is beautiful. All
of the pastel colors. If the story doesn’t keep you engaged then the production design
will. It takes you into a different world. The contrast between the darker elements of the
story juxtaposed to the visual? Beautifully done. But thinking about all of this, I pose a question
to myself. And to you all if you feel inclined to answer. Would you consider this a classic film? I
saw some chatter online saying that it is but I think I would have to disagree and this is why.
It feels like an homage to the classics rather than setting out to be a classic on its own. As I
mentioned, I see elements of clueless, superstar, mean girls, you have sarah michelle gellar in it,
who was the only featured adult throughout the film. And we never saw anyone's parents which
is interesting. But Sarah being cast is clearly a nod to the 90’s and early 2000’s as she was
one of the main girls back then. That was a nice touch. But the film itself doesn’t stand on its
own in regards to being an authentic fresh take on the teen film. And what I mean by that is,
it feels as if the writers sat down and said “Let's make a movie like…” and named every
single teen movie they grew up watching. Instead of sitting down with a fresh idea and in the midst
of it having a lightbulb moment like “Ooh and you know what, now that I’m thinking about it…Drea,
should exude Cher, head to toe, very Cher very Dion.” You get what I’m saying?
I mean that’s just the vibe I got watching this. I could be wrong. But then again I could be right.
It was an enjoyable film but I think I would just leave it at that.
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