- #Three billboards outside ebbing missouri parents guide movie
- #Three billboards outside ebbing missouri parents guide tv
“You’ve never taken a selfie? You’re a selfie virgin? A SERGIN?”
“A little, but that doesn’t mean I don’t mean what I say!” I did get a kick out of the banter, the slang the kids use to deliver put-downs and the subjects - movies, selfie-obsession - they poke each other with. “Sweats” may be obvious, “Strings,” for the Orthodox Jewish kid (Brendan Calton) almost as obvious.įor a film aimed at teens, this one leans pretty heavily on ethnic and gender stereotypes, and as in most movies with high school settings - the school here is awash in hormones and seriously revealing teen (girls only) outfits. Maddie’s folks ( Cheri Oteri and Richard Karn) had a wildly different high school experience from Cole’s jock-dad (“90210” and “Sharknado” legend Ian Ziering).Ĭo-writer/director Fine (“Sing It!”) cooks up some smart flashbacks - montages of bad proms of the past, and the ugly ways the gang of misfits Cole and Maddie pull together got their stigmatizing class nicknames. It’ll be a “night to remember,” all right.Ī clever touch - reminding the kids that this poisonous form of peer-pressure goes back generations. They’re going to “Carrie” the school’s prom, sabotage everything from limos to tanning beds, social media to the prom punch. When Maddie gets a taste of how cruel she and her clique are, Cole is there for a little comfort, and thanks to City, a plot is hatched.
The principal (one-time child star Nicholle Tom) is a vapid tart whose daily video announcements push prom as the ultimate validation of “the cool kids,” rubbing the noses of everybody else in school, demanding conformity. In Charles Adams (“Home of The Legals”) High, even the teachers gossip and follow the popular “On Fleek” or “pidg” (“preening pigeon”) kids on Instagram, indulging their cell-phone addiction in class. The “Emo” girl “City” ( Meg DeLacy, a highlight of the movie) is the only one who pals around with him and appreciates his art. Maddie? She grows up to be sex symbol of the cheerleading squad, sharing the school’s attention with her cruel redheaded “M & M” sister, Marissa ( Madelaine Petsch). We see them race their bikes together on that first day of high school.Īnd then Cole gets pantsed by a jock on his way in the door, an unshakable nickname (“Tidy,” for obvious reasons) is born and he is outcast for life. Maddie ( Danielle Campbell of TV’s “Starstruck,” “Alive in Denver”) and Cole ( Joel Courtney of “Super 8”) grew up next to each other, the best of friends. So yeah, like most of us in high school, it has its moments - just not enough of them. And it’s a half-serious “High School Popularity Doesn’t Matter” lecture in the form of farce. It’s a half-funny “Mean Girls” revenge comedy about outcasts brought together to nuke the signal event that defines the kids “who win high school,” and those they teased, taunted and tormented - senior prom. That’s a Hollywood Cali-normification of something that most of us still find coarse and not optimal parenting.
#Three billboards outside ebbing missouri parents guide tv
It doesn’t matter how many movies and cable TV shows feature parents freely cursing, sexually teasing and taunting their kids (“Every Day,” TV’s “Divorce” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and “Big Little Lies,” for instance) you’ve seen. Take it from somebody who has written syndicated “parents guide” columns for some of the nation’s biggest newspaper wire services. “F*&% the Prom,” the Bully Boys/Mean Girls/Meaner Gays comedy by Benny Fine isn’t pre-teen appropriate. So no, whatever intern writes the “guidance” blurb on Netflix films.
#Three billboards outside ebbing missouri parents guide movie
No movie with “F*&%” in its title is suitable for tweens.
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