Senior Year

Just needed an easy no brainer comedy after my week. This ticked the boxes. Couple of tokes, and this movie, made me laugh. Changed the course of my day. Laughter is the best medicine. It's so goofy and unrealistic but so what. It's a simple comedy movie and doesn't pretend to be anything else...which was fine by me.

Actually, the description of the film reads as a typical cheap entertainment film.

But Rebel Wilson is simply well cast as a 37-year-old who has been in a coma for 20 years.

The story isn't very exciting, and the end is the typical feel good finale.

It's also often illogical, and the actors aren't always convincing, but that's a 5/10 from me.

Girl goes into a coma just before the end of high school and decides to go and finish it when she wakes up at 37 years old. Lots of attempts to make fun of woke culture yet intentionally reinforces it at the same time, creating many cringe-worthy scenes.

These sorts of comedies can usually be successful by either a great supporting cast (Parnell was wonderful), or an excellent main character, this film mainly missed both marks.

Save for a couple of good laughs, you wouldn't miss anything by skipping this movie. 3/10.

If you are a child of the 90s you'll love the references. Rebel Wilson is charming and silly. The plot is totally unexceptional and predictable. There's also plenty of political messaging that you'd expect from any movie these days.

Despite being a formulaic cliché, this does have an interesting satirical element. Of course all the tired tropes are there, unrequited love, wonder at technology development and child in a woman's body.

The intriguing part is the stark contrast in sensibilities over twenty years. Naturally it is caricatured for comedic effect, but perhaps we have thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Some horrible practices have been discontinued, but at the expense of sanitising our interactions.

Sadly this social commentary is insufficient to make this a good movie despite the delightful Rebel Wilson. It is mediocre at best, with a weak, stale story, clumsy dialogue and an insurmountable suspension-of-disbelief requirement.