Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)

This movie was a horrible adaption of Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging. It is the kind of film that absolutely destroys the idea the author of the original piece was trying to make.Georgia Nicolson is a silly, immature teenage girl who likes playing pranks and is absolutely boy crazy! To sum it up, the plot is Georgia's pursuit of a boy she calls "The Sex God" (aka Robbie). In her attempts to make the handsome older boy fall in love with her, Georgia gets herself and her friends into zany situations. Despite her painful embarrassing family, crazy cat, and strict private school Georgia manages to come through on top, with her guy! The problem with this movie is that it takes a hilariously silly, lighthearted book and tries to fit it into the normal template of a tween/teen movie. They stuffed in too many clichés, made the audience sympathize with Georgia's shallow complaints, and threw in some morals and "maturity". The charm of the Georgia books are not only Rennison's hilarity (which this movie got JUST a taste of) but the way she poked fun at how shallow and ridiculous Georgia was. It was always clear that the things Georgia thought were so important were...just trivial, childish things. Because as many of us know, most things teenagers think are wildly important are...not, and that's quickly realized in a few years. But this movie makes it seem like every other stupid teen movie does--that your desperate search for a boyfriend, and desire for a smaller nose and less embarrassing parents DO actually matter and ARE important. In fact..this movie ended up being just what the books make fun of, shallow and stupid. It also destroyed the lighthearted, hilariosity of Georgia by making her "mature" in the end. That may be good for other characters, but the fun of Georgia is she stays completely silly and airheaded for years.For the most part, this movie destroyed the characters. This film took away everything that made Georgia special and original. It made her just another recycled teenaged girl character, which is truly disappointing. Her actions, which are supposed to be hilariously shallow and silly come out as whiny, bratty and annoyingly shallow, even manipulative. Georgia's parents have lost almost all personality, except the fact that Georgia's mom is flirtatious, which they push too far and make her flat out inappropriate. Dave the Laugh is NOT funny at all, and way too sensitive, when he is supposed to be an immature horndog. Angus also has no personality, little screen time, and is an ugly, gray Persian. Was it really that hard to find a large, orange tabby? Especially when they gave him nothing to do in the film? Jas was actually okay, but her chemistry with Georgia was not very good. The ONLY character that actually made me laugh and acted how I pictured was Libby, Georgia's three year old sister. And she was only on screen for a few minutes! I know I'm comparing this to the book a lot, but that's because it came from such fantastic material. But on its own? This is just another dumb tween movie with a few chuckles. It might be likable for some young girls who have never read the books, but otherwise it's forgettable. This is one of those films you should really just skip and read the book instead.

My face hurts from smiling throughout this movie! It was sweet and lovely and cute and funny, and it also had a few touching moments. It reminded me a bit of "The Princess Diaries" series (the books, not the movies) with a touch of British humor. If you've ever been a 14-year old girl, do watch this!First time I watched a teen-movie where the actors looked like teens and behaved like teens. Yes, their troubles are meaningless and foolish, but usually movies about teens have us believe adolescence is a road filled with drugs, alcohol and sex. Over-analyzing about boys is actually a more sincere picture of adolescence in my opinion.I loved the "see you later" discussion between Georgia and Jas: -Tom said "see you later". -I know! -What does that mean? -I'm not sure... And so on. Hilarious.And the part where her father tells her she's beautiful and she goes "you have to say that 'cause you're my dad". That totally happens!The only thing that kinda let me down was the ending. It was exaggerated and too optimistic I guess. It lost that "real" feel the movie had until then... I am looking forward to reading the books, I have the feeling they'll be even better...

Right, I've watched this film with my friends because it's awful but at the same time we rip it apart because at the end of the day it's so cringey and bad that it's really really funny..Why is it bad? Well. 1- It gives girls false hope... No, being 'quirky' and a total 'clutz' doesn't make the guys fancy you. Robbie (the Sex God) goes "she's just the perfect nutter!" But in reality, no one wants a perfect nutter. No one's going to go "AWW she fake tanned her legs and dressed up as an olive one time! She's so individual!" And there's a difference between being quirky and being mildly retarded...2- The culture of teenagers is dramatically unrealistic. At the end of the day, if you turned around to see 4 girls in a classroom doing a completely stupid dance in the centre where everyone can see them, complete with finger spins and brushing their shoulders, they would get merked. On top of that, all the main friendship group seem to dress terribly. It's as though an archetypal designer of Tammy Girls came along and dressed them all up in knitted pink tank tops or a purple t shirt with long white sleeves behind them. They looked like absolute dweebs.3- You sympathise with the main villain. Georgia, the irritating and unfashionable main character, steals the boyfriend from the main 'villain', Lindsay. Now Lindsay at the end storms onto stage and demands her boyfriend come back and everything, but is publicly humiliated when her chicken fillets are pulled out. Now, really...? Is this really a good message to send out? Is it good to promote the idea that people with chicken fillets are pathetic and deserve to be teased for it? At the end of the day, even the thought that you'd lose your boyfriend to a whiny, less attractive and less socially aware girl with a severe deficiency in maturity, was probably enough to damage that poor girl's self esteem, let alone the public removal of her chicken fillets. 4- The acting was plastic. Robbie's voice is so hilariously high, and it's brilliant to laugh at. Jas speaks to Georgia as though they've never really met before and that they're on a set acting, which they are... And Georgia emphasises every word in a nasal voice that will drive you insane.5- The dialogue is abysmal. This kind of crosses with the culture point I made, but it deserves a section all to itself. Teenagers do not speak like the characters in this film do! They don't! No one states that someone is 'from Vulgaria'. Nobody says "snoggin'" and they definitely do not claim that they are a 'snoggin' sensation'. Jas delivers a cringe worthy string of phrases about the boy she likes, and whilst doing so makes a total tit out of herself: "He has a fit bum! QUALITY lushness. Oh I just want to go over there and snog his face off!" I know this can't be an accurate manner of speaking. Oh and Georgia delivers another line that will infuriate you: "Remember. He's from a broken home, so you have to be extra sensitive." Here she uses the implication that being with a divorced parent requires more sensitivity. I don't really know if the writers were purposefully trying to make Georgia dislikeable...So having moaned about the film (and believe me, I could've written more), it's thoroughly entertaining if you're watching it with like- minded friends who want nothing better than a good session of ripping it apart and laughing at the idea that some poorly delusional person wrote this fantastical fairytale between a 'sex god' with a helium high voice and a moronic heroine who tries to find hope in her obnoxious and boring life that was once filled with My Little Ponies, listening to Scouting for Girls and concocting 'snogging scales'. I think a sequel is necessary, where Georgia wakes up from her dream and tries to turn up at the door her boyfriend usually waits at, only to realise that the events over the past few days have been nothing but a dream.

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, an attempt to cash in on the quirky British teen book of the same name...no wait...that was called 'Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging', my mistake. I know, that name is just so darn raunchy.Anyhow, I saw nothing in the film which warrants a theatrical release. You'll find nothing here that you wouldn't find on any other teen girl series on CBBC. You have the awkward 14 year-old girl Georgia and her quest to find the hottest guy evarrr in time for her birthday party, helped by her bratty friends. Dramatic stuff right?I wouldn't say there's anything necessarily wrong with this, I just don't see why it needed to be released in theatres. By the end, I'm like "so what?"Even on it's own level, everyone but pre-teen girls are going to be annoyed by the film and it's stereotypical view of British adolescent life. Basically, the characters have their priorities all wrong and don't learn a satisfactory lesson. This could be potentially harmful to it's audience, much worse than any violence or bad language, in my opinion. That leads me to my other main problem with the film: it doesn't know which tone it's going for. Georgia describes the love interest as a "sex God", a tad inappropriate considering that the furthest anyone gets is a good snog. If you had a film tackling issues of teen sexuality, that would be a film I would like to see. This is your average teeny girl nonsense which will be forgotten soon enough.I don't recommend this to anyone but the target audience. If you are part of it, don't make your parents watch it.