- Hi, I'm Ava Michelle.
- I'm Griffin Gluck.
- I'm Anjelika Washington.
- And I'm Luke Eisner. We're the cast of "Tall Girl 2".
- And we are going to recap everything
that happened in the first film.
- It's been a few years since you last saw us.
So we don't want you to be unprepared.
- Buckle up. Let's do it.
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- Would you maybe wanna....
- So we meet my character, Jodi, in high school.
Jodi is tall. She's 6'1 1/2" tall.
It has been her main identifying characteristic
since she was a child and she's really insecure about it.
- [Griffin] Fitting in has never been that easy.
And there's the jokes.
- [All] How's the weather up there?
- How's the weather up there?
- Luckily she's got a competent best friend, Fareeda,
who always has her back.
and just wants Jodi to accept herself for who she is.
- She has another friend, Dunkleman,
who has known Jodi since she was a little girl,
but is now firmly in love with her.
- But he doesn't check the boxes
on Jodi's perfect boyfriend checklist.
Perhaps most importantly, Dunkleman is shorter than Jodi.
- And he also carries his books in a milk crate.
More on that later.
- I made you a smoothie.
- [Luke] Then, Stig, a foreign exchange student from Sweden,
waltzes into Jodi's classroom,
casually solves a problem on the blackboard.
- Jodi is wowed by Stig and he's really tall.
- And good-looking.
- And all the girls want him, especially Jodi.
- [Man] He's perfect. Yeah.
- Immediately, one of Jodi's original tormentors,
Kimmy. swoops in with a quick line of Swedish to woo Stig.
(speaking in Swedish)
- Then, Dunkleman learns that his worst nightmare
has come true.
Stig staying with his family while he's in the US
and that he's got a bunk with his competition.
- Surprise!
- What's worse is Stig really just wants
to be friends with Dunkleman.
and gives him the adorable nickname, Dunkers.
- Good morning Dunkers!
- Back at home, Jodi turns to her beauty pageant winning,
little big sister, Harper, for date advice.
- [Griffin] Harper advises Jodi, to walk away
because an attractive exchange student, like Stig,
will have all the girls circling him,
which proves to be prescient
when Kimmy went to cafeteria battle of wills
between the other girls at school,
and she and Stig become inseparable.
- And we have a winner, oh!
- This is all way too much for Jodi.
So she decides it's time to win over Stig.
So Harper and her mom decided the best course of action is
to give Jodi a full makeover. To the dressing room!
- Now, this is me.
- [Griffin] Jodi, who is now ready to dress to impress,
plans to win over Stig the next day at school,
when she gets an unexpected phone call
- [Stig] My name is Stig.
I'm the new exchange student in your school.
- He's calling to ask Jodi to the homecoming dance.
- But, it's too good to be true.
It's actually a prank call from Kimmy
and her partner-in-crime, Schnipper, hitting home that.
- [Kimmy] You're the tall girl.
You'll never be the pretty girl.
- Jodi then spends the day hiding out and avoiding Kimmy.
Fareeda finds her in the bathroom
and gives her a very passionate speech.
- You're going to stand up and say,
"This is me. I love all 73 inches of myself,
and there's nothing you can do that will change that!"
- But instead, she flushed out the bathroom.
- So Jodi slips out of the bathroom,
only to see Kimmy of course.
So she takes refuge in a piano rehearsal space.
- Of course, who happens to be there mangling Beethoven?
It's Stig. And after some practical piano advice,
awkward conversation, and hand touching,
Stig admits to Jodi that he's obsessed with musicals.
- [Stig] It's "Guys and Dolls". It's my favorite musical.
- Me too.
- She sits down to play a tune
while they sing a duet and stare into each other's eyes.
The chemistry is palpable.
- But this meet cute gets rudely interrupted by Kimmy.
After secrets for class,
Kimmy tells Jodi she needs to back off.
- Stig and I will be homecoming king and queen.
- I don't doubt it.
- Stop agreeing with everything I'm saying.
- Okay.
- Ugh!
- After this, Jodi is alone in her room,
feeling bad, when the phone rings
- The voice says it's Stig, but Jodi,
not wanting to be burned twice, goes on a rant.
But it actually is Stig.
- Maybe you wanted to come over tonight
and watch a musical with me.
- [Griffin] Jodi's immediately dressed and out the door.
When she arrives at Dunkleman's house,
Dunkleman is pleasantly surprised to see her
and even more surprised when he finds out
that she's there to watch a musical with Stig.
- [Stig] Bye, Dunkers.
- Stig accompanies Jodi home,
where the conversation shifts uncomfortably
to Stig's relationship with Kimmy.
But when Stig starts to list all the positive things
about Jodi, she kisses him.
- And then she apologizes for kissing him.
But Stig, isn't sorry, and then kisses her back.
I mean, it's a nice moment until Jodi gets home
and admits to her sister, Harper,
that she kissed a boy who has a girlfriend.
And then Harper tells her-
- You can't not do it.
Girlfriend or not, you've got a shot at this.
You are forging ahead. You are in the game.
- [Luke] Back in the bunk bed at Dunkleman's house,
Stig confesses everything to Dunkers,
who provides Stig with some very self-serving advice
to cut it off with Jodi
and focus on his relationship with Kimmy.
- At school, Stig arrives at the cafeteria
and gives Jodi the cold shoulder.
And what's worse, he invites Dunkers
to join him at the popular table.
Dunkleman catches the eye of another girl, Liz.
and they bond over a cookie.
- Jodi walks home with Dunkleman,
where she and Stig have a heart-to-heart.
They decided just to be friends
and seal the deal with the-
- The higher five.
- Jodi meets up with Fareeda,
when suddenly she's blindsided by Kimmy.
- We need to talk.
- Kimmy tells her that Schnipper digs her new look
and invites her to join everyone
on a date to an escape room.
- At the escape room, Dunkleman offers up his house
for a get together and all three couples get cozy
and start making out.
But Jodi and Stig keep making eye contact with each other.
And Jodi decides to leave.
- [Kimmy] Well, if you're gonna go, go.
- I'm trying!
- [Luke] Stig leaves a note for Jodi at school
to meet her at the piano
where he tells Jodi that he wants to break up with Kimmy.
- If it means I can be with you.
- [Luke] Jodi invites Stig
to come to her sister's beauty pageant, and he accepts.
- [Anjelika] At the pageant, Harper shows off
her blindfold knife throwing skills
and takes home the crown.
- In your face Miss Teen Shreveport!
- But Stig is a no-show.
- Jodi heads to Dunkleman's party
to discover that Stig cares more about being popular
than being with Jodi.
- You're not breaking up Kimmy. You never were.
- The next morning, Dunkleman surprises in her bed
with his black eye and a gift.
- [Jodi] High-heels. - [Dunkleman] Mhmm.
- [Griffin] Dunkleman paints a funny but thoughtful picture
for Jodi about why she should keep them,
even if she doesn't feel comfortable wearing them right now.
- [Anjelika] After Dunkleman leaves,
Jodi gets a surprising video text from Liz
that explains what happened at the party.
It shows Stig bragging to the group
that he was all in Jodi's head when Dunkleman calls him out.
- She's so much cooler than all you guys combined.
- Then Schnipper makes a joke and Dunkleman attacks him
and then gets punched in the face,
hence the black eye, and Jodi takes the heels
and is out the door.
- Cue that montage.
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- At the dance, Harper announces the homecoming king
and queen, and to no one's surprise, it's Stig and Kimmy.
During the dance, Stig finally breaks it off with Kimmy.
- I can't do this anymore.
- [Anjelika] And sheds his crown.
- [Griffin] And at that moment, who walks in?
Jodi, dressed to the nines in those magnificent high heels.
She struts straight through the auditorium
and heads to the stage for a speech.
- Jodi is able to speak from the heart
and can finally accept herself for who she is.
- So go ahead and keep making fun of me.
Keep asking me how's the weather up there because,
because the weather up here? It's, it's pretty great.
- [Luke] Jodi heads out of the auditorium
with her whole class, cheering her on.
Stig runs after her to compliment her on her speech
and to apologize.
- Is there any chance we can start over?
- She would love to start over.
- But just not with you.
- [Griffin] Cut to Jodi approaching Dunkleman,
sitting outside his house.
Jodi wants to know why he didn't tell her
about the origin of the black eye.
- Sparks fly. Jodi revises her perfect boyfriend checklist.
Perhaps Dunkleman might check off more than enough boxes.
- And remember that milk crate?
Dunkleman uses it to set up the perfect kiss.
- And that right there is everything
that happened in "Tall Girl".
- What will happen next with Jodi and Dunkleman?
- Well, you can find out
when "Tall Girl 2" comes to Netflix on February 11th.
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