Do you know those times in your life when you're conflicted on whether something is good or bad? Examples for me would include Darth Vader, Captain Jack Sparrow, Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese, and a cheap hole in the wall Chinese restaurant that got poor reviews and will no doubt give you the runs during church, at a funeral, or during your daily morning run... but I digress. Olive's parents in this movie are hysterical! they are the kind of parents you want to be friends with, and whom you would have a lengthy Facebook chat with several pokes that would no doubt lead to someone getting Facebook pregnant (I don't even know if that's a thing). So that's when I think that parents like that would be awesome, but the kind of style they have makes them more like good friends than actual parents, and that can have a negative affect on the children later on in life because of the lack of discipline going on. Whoops!! Looks like I'm getting ahead of myself, because I've neglected to give the movie's synopsis, which I don't think is too horrible because unless you've been living under a rock or in an Amish community you've probably already seen this movie. This is a loose and modern adaptation of the classic Scarlet Letter book and follows the story of Olive and her lie about getting freaky with a college dude, which in turn came around and slapped an "A" on her Victoria's Secret wardrobe, dubbing her the slut of the town. With this lie spreading, she chooses to use her newfound title to pretend to have sexy times with people who are gay or have low self esteem issues, so that they can appear straight or BAD-@$$ until High School ends; basically she's helping them out without actually "helping them out" if you know what I mean. Obviously things get complicated for her, and you would think that the parents would be around more during this trial, because although they do give her counsel every once in a while they don't think anything of it and just let this "phase" just pass on by.
3 1/2 out of 5
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