Mean girls with smartphones

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Ana Amador in Entertainment

Ana Amador

Chronicle Reporter

“The DUFF” movie, while a little too generic, achieved it’s main purpose as a comedy: to make its’ audience laugh. The movie was released friday 21 and  follows Biancas’ Senior year of high school when she realizes that she is the DUFF. The DUFF stands for designated ugly fat friend and describes the least attractive person in the group of friends. When her childhood friend Wesley (Robbie Amell), the football team captain, tells her that she’s the DUFF in her group of friends Bianca decides to take action.Bianca’s group of friends consists of Casey (Bianca A. Santos) and Jess (Skyler Samuel).

Bianca and her friends get along great until Bianca gets mad at them because they never pointed out to her that she’s the DUFF, her friends think that’s ridiculous and Bianca ends up spending her Senior year of high school all by herself. Wesley comes to the rescue after Bianca asks him to teach her how to not be a DUFF in exchange for her help with chemistry class. Wesleys steps to not being a DUFF result in some pretty comical situations. The plot is driven by Biancas’ internal turmoil and the constant bullying from mean-girl, and Wesleys on-and-off girlfriend, Madison (Bella Thorne).

The movie was directed by Ari Sandel and was expectantly mainstream with its’ cinematography. The acting in this movie is believable enough considering the characters the cast played were just everyday teenagers, with simple feelings, and not hard characters to convey. The soundtrack is fairly mainstream with songs like Jealous by Nick Jonas and #selfie by the chainsmokers.

The movie uses a lot of graphics to show the viewers what’s going on with the characters’ social media because phones and social media are Madisons’ bullying tools and that pretty much drives the conflict of the story.

In the incorporation of phones and social media “The DUFF” modernizes your typical teen movie. There’s still the football captain, the attractive mean girl, and the slightly less attractive loser girl but instead they all have an instagram accounts. The movie isn’t bad; it is funny and it’s a nice movie but it won’t make much of an impact. “The DUFF” is your everyday feel-good comedy, as long as you can understand the social media references.

 

http://theduffmovie.com/

 

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_duff/