Tall Girl. Nzingha Stewart. 2019. ☆☆★★★★
There haven’t been many Netflix Original movies the past few months. I’ve kinda missed watching horrible, horrible movies.
This doesn’t really look that bad. It’s a high school comedy where the main concept is that it’s embarrassing to be a tall girl. I can relate. I’m tall, girl.
So I was just idly wondering “if this is such a big deal, why doesn’t she just move to Norway” and the next second a (tall) exchange student from Sweden walks in.
So close!
And so is this movie, really. It’s got all the required set pieces: The nerds, the Heathers, the movie parodies, the wipe cuts, the album scratches, and the over-the-top characters.
But it just doesn’t have funny enough jokes, and the pacing is way too slow. Instead of a totally super-zany makeover scene (it always works in these movies), you have them dragging down the paces by having the makeoveree (that a word) saying stuff like “thanks mom… but… it’s just not… me…”.
Edit! Edit!
I think there’s a salvageable movie in here.
Sabrina Carpenter steals every scene she’s in: It’s like she’s in the version of this movie that’s how it’s supposed to be, and the rest are in a much duller film.
It’s frustrating watching this. At least when a movie totally sucks, you can enjoy hating it.
This post is part of the NFLX2019 blog series.