Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)

Purely Joyful Movie!

disgusting, overrated, pointless

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

All around funny, well written well acted coming of age comedy for tween-aged girls. The antagonist is pretty, bossy, mean, stuck up blonde named Lyndsay who's "Nunga Nungas" are the center of her social gravity. What Lyndsay doesn't know is that Georgia and her friends have discovered that Lyndsay is secretly wearing falsies a fact they are perfectly happy to keep to themselves, until Lyndsay shows up to Georgia's sweet sixteen party and throws massive, public, shade Georgia's way. You guessed it, Lyndsay gets "busted." A fairly well done reveal but some of the camera angles chosen are not ideal. Overall artifice-exposed fans will love it.

(Sorry in advance for any typo's or grammatical errors, I am not a native English speaker)In the beginning of the movie the main characters (4 teenage girls) act like they are 11-12 years old. They are shy, scared of talking to boys and have really childish sleepovers where they eat pizza and talk about immature subjects (In a heavily exaggerated and annoying teenage way). The interaction between the boys and girls in the movie is quite innocent in the beginning as well, with shyness and awkwardness, almost having a resemblance to highschool musical. Soon enough however the scene changes completely, and the girls start acting like they are 20 years old. One would assume it would be a gradual change, but not so much in this movie. One day one of the girls gets asked out, and the next day she is having a very sexual, very long french kissing session with her new boyfriend at school - in front of her friend (the main character). Their relationship is also very "adult like" in other aspects, not at all like the kind of relationship you would expect a person who is just experiencing these things for the first time would have. They act like they have been dating for years, sharing everything (although only knowing etcher for a few days) walk together, sit together in the school cafeteria (often "snogging") and generally behaving like a couple in their twenties. The main character is also suddenly more mature. She falls into a bush with a guy at a party, and after he gets up her knickers are showing and the people who happens to see her, assume something sexual went down. (Weird that not even her best friend is surprised since it was mere weeks ago (maybe days) they giggled over having their first kiss - now she is having sex? No big deal). What I am trying to say is that the girls maturing happens at an unnatural pace, almost from one day to another. They start off way more childish and oblivious than girl that age would be, and end up acting well above their age. But lets move on..The main character is also immature and downright mean from the start, creating schemes to get what she want, lying to pretty much everyone, using other people, being mean to her little sister, and in the end humiliating a girl who really haven't done much wrong, other than telling the main character to keep away from her boyfriend. But I suppose she gets away with it because she looks so incredibly plain: Ethnic with a big nose, close-set eyes and big lips. In the end she also manage get the hot guy (not very believable). Anyway, the hot guy's old girlfriend comes on stage at the main characters birthday party and speaks her mind about how awful the main character is. However the main character tells her to act like an adult, but then continues to do the complete opposite herself, as she helps humiliate the poor girl who just lost her boyfriend. The old girlfriends bra inserts are thrown over the stage while everyone cheer, and as the cherry on top our awful main character gets a kiss from the hot guy all while people cheer and celebrate her behaviour.But of cause the old girlfriend deserves it, being all blonde and "stereotypically" beautiful. Let the plain jane win, no matter how awful she is. So this is my verdict: Plain acting, annoying main character, bad plot, mediocre movie.1/10 If you want true to life teenage drama where the characters doesn't act way below their age, I recommend "Skins UK" or "Fishtank".If you want a family friendly teenage movie, turn to Disney or "Mean girls".... The fact that some people say they watched this movie with their parents makes me uncomfortable.

From director Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham), this looked like it could be a pretty entertaining British comedy based around another coming of age story, the title was certainly catchy. Basically it is the first day of school for Georgia Nicolson (Georgia Groome) and her friends Jas (Eleanor Tomlinson), Ellen (Manjeeven Grewal) and Rosie Barnes (Georgia Henshaw) living in Eastbourne. They spot two good looking brothers moved from London, non identical twins Robbie (Aaron Johnson) and Tom (Sean Bourke), and the girls follow them as new friend Dave the Laugh (Tommy Bastow) shows them around. Georgia plans to get close to Robbie, as he likes cat like she does, so she pretends her cat Angus has gone missing, it is instead Tom that gets the cat and he starts dating Jas, while Robbie goes out with Georgia's rival Wet Lindsay (Kimberley Nixon). Georgia's father Bob (QI's Alan Davies) is planning to move the whole family to New Zealand because of his new job offer, while he is away her mother Connie Nicolson (FAQ U's Karen Taylor) looks like she is spending too much time with handsome hired builder Jem (T4's Steve Jones), making her question her parents' marriage. To "grow up" for Robbie, Georgia starts "perfect snogging lessons" with Peter Dyer (Liam Hess), and infatuated with her he attempts to kiss her at a party one night, and she falls over exposing her knickers to her friends and Tom, and because Robbie saw her she tells Peter she is a lesbian. The next day Tom, Jas and Robbie go swimming, and Georgia stuck babysitting her little sister is there too, and she gets to kiss Robie, before he leaves saying that he will call her later. A few weeks later, Robbie's band, the Stiff Dylans, are doing a gig, and Dave the Laugh invites Georgia to come along, but before she gets the chance to talk to Robbie she is stopped by Lindsay. Both Dave and Robbie realise the jealousy scheme that Georgia was plotting, and they both stop talking to her, and an argument with Jas confessing she leaked this information means they are not speaking to each other too. Thinking her life is no longer worth living in England, Georgia initially says she will go with her father to New Zealand, before finding out that Robbie has dumped Lindsay for her, as he still likes her. In the end, thinking that her mother is planning an uncool fifteenth birthday party for her, Georgia is surprised to see all her friends attending a club, with The Stiff Dylans playing on stage, her father returned and staying home, and she and Robbie get their confirming kiss. Also starring Eva Drew as Libby, Imogen Bain as Headmistress and Ingrid Oliver as Miss Stamp. In the leading role, young Groome is really good with her dry sense of humour, the embarrassing parents get their time, and the other supporting cast members get their moments too. The story mainly focusing on hormonal teenage attitudes to love, snogging, fashion and maybe a little mention of sex is appealing when it doesn't use gross out jokes, it is just witty dialogue and well acted comedy drama. Good!

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.