Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
Yet another Netflix teen film with a terrible message.
This film is so vapid that it’s character can barely be called puddle deep. Clearly whoever wrote this film is not only widely out of touch, and doesn’t know how social media works and effects teens, but also has never met a teen girl before in their life, as the way the teens behave in this is barely even human.
Another thing that will annoy many about this film is the fact that though the central girl, played by Ava Michelle, has body confidence issues about her height it is just a small scale issue in the scheme of things. In a world were people are often bullied and beaten for their sexual orientation or skin colour, a narrative about a girl being sad because she is tall just comes off as privileged and again out of touch. I could give this film somewhat of a pass if it had something good to say about body confidence by the end of the film, but no the film instead gives out yet more toxic messages and then tries to wrap up.
Everything about this film sucks and honestly Netflix really needs to fire whoever runs their greenlighting process.
Overall, this is why everyone thinks Netflix only makes bad films.
Pros.
It is unintentionally hilarious
Cons.
It has a bad message
It is irritating
All of the characters have clear privilege
It has no depth at all
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