Few events loom larger in the minds of movie teenagers than prom. Dreams are realized, bullies are put in their place, girls are declared “all that.” Real life is rarely as dramatic, thankfully, bu…
Few events loom larger in the minds of movie teenagers than prom. Dreams are realized, bullies are put in their place, girls are declared “all that.” Real life is rarely as dramatic, thankfully, but that doesn’t mean we should expect studios to stop trying to make the next “Pretty in Pink” or “10 Things I Hate About You” anytime soon. Disney offer a fresh take on teendom’s big night with “
Mandy Yang first appears in a Ruth Bader Ginsburg T-shirt, obsessively refreshing her Harvard application in the hopes that it’s gone from “pending” to “accepted” while trying to avoid the pep rally where North Seattle High will officially announce its prom theme: the ‘80s. “Real life starts once we get out of here and go to college,” she says to bestie Ben Plunkett , who’s slightly more enthused about the prospect of having a traditional high-school experience than she is.
It has its own lingo, as so many of its predecessors do — “Everests” are the fellow students Mandy and Ben look down on because they’re peaking in high school — as well as familiar adult faces in snarky supporting roles. Here it’s Margaret Cho as Mandy’s guidance counselor and Wendi McLendon-Covey as her mother, with Cho in particular acquitting herself well as a reliable confidante. More than anything else, though, the film owes its success to Lee.
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