I really liked this movie as a teen, but the best part may have been the reaction it triggered in one of my friends. She lived next door to me and had been my friend since we both moved there as kids, but she was 2 years younger than me and we went to different schools. As we got older, I saw the insecure sweet girl turn into a mini-diva: the stuck up snobby bitchy kind. We still hung out from time to time though, and one afternoon we watched this movie. I expected her to hate it, or to just make fun at the main character. But not only did she watch the entire movie (she has a short attention span), she actually loved it, summed up by: “Damn, I want to smack her and hug her at the same time”. And that to me was proof that she wasn’t as shallow as I assumed she had become.

just watched this again for the first time since i was around middle school/high school age. i like it even more than i did when i watched it the first time. truly unflinching look at adolescence…i really do like the parts involving the parents and the little sister. i myself was the eldest to a younger, terribly cute sister. agh, so annoying! i could relate to dawn weiner pretty well, although i didn’t have it quite as bad.

i like that there isn’t a big happy ending, because for me, school never did have one either. you just have to live through it, and pray you make it out with a relatively unscathed psyche, much like what her brother tells her at the end. middle school was a battleground, and this portrays it pretty well (if not a little overdramatically in parts).

I’m pretty sure I was watching the same movie that everyone on the “I have consumed this” list did. That’s why I can’t figure out why 15 people found this movie “worth watching”.

I was teased all through out school. I was miserable. But I was never teased as badly as this girl was. And, to be honest,I don’t find it funny to watch someone being tortured. I just felt bad for the girl for most of the film.

Maybe I just took the film too seriously. But, even so, the movie’s “plot” was so completely stupid, even for a comedy. I was left at the end wondering what the hell just happened (am I the only one that experienced that?)

warning: brings back all those feelings your newly pubescent self had when being tormented by your peers. unless you were a jock or cheerleader. now you’re entertainment for the freaks you used to make fun of. buying your hummers to make up for your lack of libido from years of steroid abuse. your expressionless face smoothed by botox injections. hmmm…wonder if you can guess which i was from this rant? ;-)