Tall Girl

I'm not going to rant on about the plot because you can Google it but I will say that this is an adorable movie that for once didn't have the clearest ending. For once the main characters weren't 30 year olds playing 17 year olds and I think it was, overall, pretty realistic. The characters were pretty good and, as a short girl, I couldn't always relate to Jodi but the movie is about so much more than just height.

Now, it wasn't amazing. I can see the argument that it's kind of out dated. But I will say I disagree that 6'1 isn't tall. I don't know what average heights (and shoe size) are where y'all live, but I'm only 5'8 and I get comments on how tall I am. I don't get made fun of but just pointing out how 6'1 is definitely tall here in sunny California. I don't think I know any one that tall and I would definitely notice at my school. Now over all, I think the movie was cute and entertaining. It wasn't like revelation or groundbreaking, mostly just repeated lessons of self worth that you see in most movie like this. But still, I enjoyed it.

I mean, it wasn't bad... but I feel like they didn't quite catch Jodi's personality. It was mostly people telling us how amazing she is, but all we see is her being down or whinging about something. I would have liked to see the more caring and "fun" side. It was stated that she was "fun" a few times, but where was that?? It was very choppy in a few bits. Like there were scenes missing that could have added to the experience. There was one part, though, that made me a bit mad, and that was the caesarean part. I haven't had one myself, but that was incredibly offensive to millions of women. It's as though they were made to feel ugly for bringing life into this world and something that usually comes from an emergency. Not cool guys. The rest of the movie was average. In saying that, it was a nice, easy watch when you want to just turn off the brain and watch a Netflix teen romcom.

Some turns the movie takes are a bit annoying, and the score is too noticeable and tiresome after a while. But otherwise I actually liked it for the most part in its first hour or so. It's an innocent little teen comedy and I don't see too much wrong with that personally. However, most things toward the end are unforgivably kitschy and cringey which really brings the whole flick down by a lot. The performances, even if by people who mostly didn't act much or at all before, are very solid. Tall Girl overall is so surface level and just not good enough, even if it has some honestly good flashes of a kinda nice movie. On a sidenote I gotta say Maggie Rogers' Light On at the end was such a nice surprise, but the song was edited weirdly which sort of fits this whole movie. It could have easily been so much better, but simply wasn't in the end because of odd choices in the script which made the flick feel silly by the time the credits started to roll.

Started watching this movie and it was watchable up until the point the "Swedish" exchange student began to speak English with a forced accent that didn't even sound remotely like a Swede speaking English and then his "Swedish" was clearly an American that had learnt a few lines of Swedish... Why couldn't Netflix actually get an authentic Swedish actor for this role? Immediately after this the credibility of the movie was shot and we stopped watching .. it was too painful to listen to.