Booksmart

Best friends Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) have their sights set beyond high school and have stuck to their studies, ignoring any social life beyond their own friendship. On the eve of graduation, Yale-headed Molly finds out her school partier rivals have also gotten into good schools without making the sacrifices she has. Now Molly and Amy are determined to prove they can have fun and decide to attended the best graduation party in town…if they can find it.Booksmart is a very impressive and stylish directorial debut from actress Olivia Wilde. The script is credited to four writers and while that would normally be a possible sign of trouble, here it is a clever and sometimes heartfelt collaboration. Booksmart doesn’t reinvent the high school coming of age comedy, but it does delightfully revitalize it. Wilde and her writers tackle all the usual high school themes like the social hierarchy and teen romance, but approaches them in a fresh and fun way. There is some wonderfully witty dialogue and the script and director don’t shy away from more contemporary themes with some openly gay characters such as Amy herself. Part of the whole reason the girls are headed to Nick’s (Mason Gooding) party is so Amy can spend time with tattooed skater-girl Ryan (Victoria Ruesga) and Molly can finally admit she has a crush on Nick. The outcome of their last night of school quest is both realistic, poignant and fun…and that’s what makes this flick work so well. A perfect blend. The characters are treated with respect and even stereotype characters avoid feeling like clichés. They are very human, such as Molly Gordon’s girl with a reputation “Triple A”. She surprises us by not only being a likable and feisty young lady, but her acceptance into Yale, too, is one of the reasons that drives Molly to want this one night of decadence. The film handles multiple characters well and aside from not shying away from serious themes, the film can be a lot of raunchy fun and there are layers of wit and cleverness to go with it, so it avoids being just vulgar. It’s a very offbeat and heartfelt coming of age story that never forgets to be decadent fun and is smart about doing it. No better example of this is a delightful stop motion animation sequence when Amy and Molly are given some drugged strawberries. Inventive, demented and hilariously funny.The film presents a great cast of eccentric yet familiar characters and the actors all do great work under Wilde’s guidance. Beanie Feldstein is simply wonderful as nerdy, ambitious Molly. A girl who hit the books running and on the eve of her moving on to college, finds out, hilariously, that she could have had a little fun along the way. The actress has great comic timing and plays the dramatic moments strongly. A star in the making. Same can be said of Kaitlyn Dever whose openly gay Amy is a sweet, sensitive and spirited young woman who joins her friend on this one last hurrah before leaving high school to do volunteer work in Africa. There are a host of delightfully portrayed off-beat characters to support them. Billie Catherine Lourd is a lot of fun as the weird rich girl Gigi. Skyler Gisondo as the shameless self promoter Jared, who may not be as shallow as he appears. Mason Gooding is solid as the school hunk Nick. Victoria Ruesga is also good as Amy’s crush Ryan and Molly Gordon makes her “school slut” character, Triple A, very likable and human. There are also some veterans in the cast such as Jason Sudeikis as Principal Jordan, Lisa Kudrow as Amy’s oddball mom Charmaine and Will Forte as her equally quirky dad Doug. Simply a great cast.Overall, this was a dynamite debut for director Olivia Wilde. It refreshes both the high school coming of age flick and the characters set within such stories. It has a great cast including wonderful performances by it’s leads and is not afraid or shies away from more serious and contemporary themes. It also approaches it’s characters all with sensitivity and respect and portrays it’s gay characters as simply part of the story without turning them into showcase set pieces. Bravo to Olivia Wilde and writers Katie Silberman, Sarah Haskins, Emily Halpern and Susanna Fogel. A great indie movie!-MonsterZero NJ

Delivered very quickly and safely. Very funny movie to enjoy multiple times.

Now the fact that this was ecommended by a friend with this oversight is telling to me about how ingrained stereotypes of Asians are. What I’m pointing out is not to instill cautiousness and fear over every little thing we say or do. Filmmakers need to ask “why” when we choose to portray characters a certain way. Is it based on truth or insensitivity or even ignorance?While this film is funny and endearing the film is trying too hard to be something it’s not and feels more like a college film ripping off 10 Things I Hate About You.I would have fully loved the film if it were not the blatant racism toward Asians that the writer is completely unconscious of revealing their true biases.I would like the writer/director to explain:WHAT IS EXACTLY FUNNY about the Chinese language and white people speaking Chinese soley for laughs? Isn’t this just a subtler version of the “Ching Chong” ridicule and mockery of their native tongue that has been going on for years? Why in 2020 is this even acceptable? And what is funny about naming a Panda doll that the character masturbates or faces sits on until the panda’s EYES fall out named “LING LING” and not Molly or some white or other inanimate name? Another unconscious jokes about Asians having no eyes, squinting eyes to see. This simultaneously shows a total unconscious opinion white people have engrained in their views of Asians as submission sex dolls- totally unaware that this comes from biased Asian stereotype images from media that this director clearly is perpetuating unconsciously to youths.And what about the Mexican kid playing a modern trope from Sixteen Candles (the most racist and harmful movie toward Asians ever of Long Duk Dong) only in this case it’s a long maned Mexican dude that’s portrayed as a dopey Native American-looking effeminate male who willfully/submissively has sex with his black teacher. Why did he even need to declare himself as Mexican (as opposed to playing a brilliant pothead like Sean Penn in Fast Times’)? And is it cool to have a diverse cast as props for the sake of feeling white pride of checking off all the diversity boxes? Get a hold or yourself people, we are done with this. Booksmart is dumbing Americans down and 10 years from now it will be called out on just like Sixteen Candles. 10 years too late as youths watching this become emotionally attached to characters and their own brainwashed values. Wake up pls.

LOVE THIS MOVIE! So glad Amazon had it since they took it off of Hulu and it's a personal favorite!

This is a quintessential romp. It has a pitch perfect, diverse cast, yet refrains from punching down.Booksmart leans more diverse than most movies while also keeping a sense of humor about its main characters’ extremely well intended, but occasionally awkward, attempts at acceptance. The most refreshing part, is that, while we got to see characters of all types have rich characterization and fleshed out inner lives, their identities were never a plot point. This feels like progress.The diversity of the cast allowed for much more fertile comedy ground to harvest, which brings up the point that this movie is FUNNY. It’s genuinely funny without resorting to lazy joke shortcuts or boring comedy tropes.I had lost interest in a lot of media presented as comedy but this didn’t leave me feeling icky after watching it.Booksmart is smart and sincere and clever and bawdy and I love it.

Imposible no compararla con SUPERBAD (Si hasta la hermana de Jonah Hill es una de las protagonistas), pero igual de cautivadora y divertida, está a buen precio pero una gran tache por no incluir el SLIPCOVER siendo que la foto si sale que viene.

Buen producto pero no incluye slipcover como se muestra en la imagen

This movie is hilarious, the female Superbad I had to have it in my collection!

Incredible