Almost Adults

I love the tandem between Elise and Natasha and I was hoping that this will be one of the may things that will bring out the potential in them but it didnt. The writing was so juvenile. There was hardly a plot and not even something that will teach us by the end of the movie. The camera is moving a lot too. Elise and Natasha were still awesome though. but this is really bad.

Admittedly I was expecting a lot from this movie knowing the team that built it. The writing is a bit clunky and the storyline isn't too deep but nothing unexpected from a first film. That's not really a huge issue - (outside of the main character not knowing having an online relationship with someone in 2017 would count as cheating??) - the writing is fine. The main issue is the entire movie is weirdly cis centered and leans into outdated stereotypes of gays and lesbians. Some of the language used is transphobic, the cast is mostly entirely white and they causally use the R word in a throw away line as an insult. From a team that is generally (albeit not the most inclusive) good about having diversity in their cast and writing, this really fell short. Hopefully this is just a jumping off point and any other projects they work on in the future will be more self aware.

The strong friendship between two young women is tested as their lives take different paths. I am a real sucker for these feel good, coming of age type movies. I loved this one a lot. The main characters are a little older than is standard for this genre but does ring true with the arrested development of the younger generation. This makes a lot of fun things that have become clichés for being clichés. Like for instance: parents reactions over hearing their child is gay. The story has a lot of standard elements but has enough kinks to keep it interesting - some of the characters "get away" with being quite ghastly but are till endearing. The chemistry between the two female leads really makes this film. Unfortunately the scenes with the male lead didn't work for me. Somehow the actors just didn't gel. Nothing massively funny or deep here, just good-hearted, humorous, feel good viewing.

Because of the horrible review I read I really didn't expect much. So, I was surprised to find that this movie as really quite charming. The acting as not so horrible but if you're from L.A. it might have seemed mocking of the "valley girl" way of speech. However, many girls across the U.S. really do talk like that no thanks to 90210. It was a comedy. It didn't seem any more forced than many of the really bad comedies coming out of Hollywood these days with huge lead actors. It was a cute little movie.

May Contain Spoilers. First let me say, that i have no idea, who made this movie. If they are on youtube, if they had a Kickstarter page, etc. I just like watching independent movies on Netflix. I saw this one and as there are not a lot of Lesbian movies, i decided to give it a go. it felt more like a 90 min Degrassi Episode. I felt that there was not enough material, the " conflict" wasn't't big enough to cover a 90 minute movie. But besides that, they still managed to have underdeveloped characters and story lines. I think that the movie started strong but got worse and worse as they noticed, that they don't have a plot. You can see it in the acting as well, in the beginning, the relationship between the two girls was sweet and very believable. Then both of them just became really selfish and not relatable. I wouldn't be friends with either of them. I think this is reflected in the actors' performance as well. They both started of solid but you could see, that when the quality of the script declined, so did the quality of the acting. Last 20 minutes i was quite tempted to skip to the end. I think that the leads were fine but needed better material to work with.

It's such a shame that this film fell short of expectations but it really did. I contributed to the kickstarter and I was psyched to do so, Sarah and Adrianna proved their talent over and over again with their Youtube channel and clever comedy. Perhaps this could've worked if they were in front of the camera and not behind it. First things first, this was a good idea, the concept is a solid idea, it just doesn't work for film. By the time we're in the throws of Mackenzie and Cassie fighting I still don't really care about them, no depth is explored to their friendship and as such when they fight it doesn't tug on my heartstrings the way it should. If they had done this as a full length series with more time invested in their relationship its history and its development I think it could have worked. 5 minute montage scene does not a history make. Secondly, as strange as this sounds I just didn't see "friendship" chemistry between Elise and Natasha which is strange since they've obviously worked together for awhile. The only natural scenes seemed to gel with Levi, who provided 90% of the humour despite his small role. The intended humour between Mackenzie and Cassie fell flat, resorting to LGBT stereotypes that are just too burnt out for the straight writers let alone a gay one. Thirdly, by casting LGBT folk heroes in the means of Elise and Natasha they ensured an audience but sacrificed some serious acting chops. They'll be wonderful in ten years I have no doubt about that, but they're earning their stripes and they bit off more than they could chew here. Perhaps if you'd cast one of them and then a newbie it could have worked but an established canon was constantly in mind during the scenes and I found myself looking for the soya blood milk carton for half the film. There was a lot of over promising for this film. The delayed release helped in subduing excitement for finally seeing it. I don't regret contributing to the kickstarter, but I won't be doing it again. Stick with pillow talk, it's hilarious.