Film Reviews
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
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- Director: Gurinder Chadha
- Starring: Aaron Johnson
- Details: US / 90mins (PG).
A PG version of Superbad for girls, Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging follows the trials and tribulations of fourteen-year-old Georgia (Groome) as she attempts to woo the gorgeous school newbie Robbie (Johnson) away from bitchy blond Lindsay (Kimberley Nixon). She also has to deal with her father's possible move to New Zealand, worries that her mother is having an affair with a builder, fends off the attentions of a nerd and is afraid that her nose is too big. Adapted from Louise Rennison's novels - Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging and On The Bright Side, I'm Now A Girlfriend Of A Sex God - this comedy from Bend It Like Beckham director Chadha is a roll call of teenage girl's dreams and nightmares: squeezing zits, boys, stuffing bras, boys, the importance of the perfect outfit, boys, the forgetting of best friends once you land a fella, boys, bitchy girls, boys, mind games and those annoying mixed signals you get from - you guessed it – boys. Although the majority of gags here aren't that funny, that's not to say girls under sixteen years of age will find them hilarious. A charming, inoffensive, if superfluous, comedy, this could be the summer's sleeper hit. Result!
Review by Gavin Burke
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Your Comments
cant wait!!!!!!! - girlygirl
Published 31 July 2008
i cant wait to see the film me an my best friend r goin tomorrow its great and i havent even saw it yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xo
Perfect Teen movie - JaneCowell91
Published 25 July 2008
I loved this from start to finish. I may not be a great film critic or anything but this was soooo good! Really funny all the way through with loads of jokes aimed at teenage girls like me! I'm going again this weekend with my friends - we all want to see Stiff Dylans again, that band is soooo HOT!
OMG!! Can't Believe It!!! - footie-babe
Published 22 July 2008
I can't believe it i read this book years ago and loved it! I sort of wished that it would turn into a movie and guess wot?... I think it came true OMG!!! i can't believe it i'm goin to watch it on the first day it comes out in Lincoln!!!
OMG I am mad about this movie!!!!! - Ioana
Published 21 July 2008
I am going to a different country on the 26th but I'm still going to see Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging because I'm countin the days since I saw the add. I love this movie and I haven't even seen it!!!!
i cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - jess
Published 10 July 2008
i cant wait to see angus thongs and perfect snogging becuase i have read the book and its great! im going to see the peview today!!!!
23yrs old and cannot wait! - Deirdrec
Published 09 July 2008
I actually read this book years ago and loved it to bits!! In fact, when I saw the ad I dug out the book and gave it to my 13yr old sister!!She is at that age where she will appreciate Georgias way of thinking!!Lovely innocent book and I am most certainly going to being my sister and her friends to see it!(Clearly as an excuse to see it myself!!!)