Cast: Demi Moore, Miley Cyrus, Douglas Booth, Ashley Green
Direction: Lisa Azuelos
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes
Avg Readers Rating: 4/5
Story : Lola is a happy-go-lucky youth who has issues aplenty to deal with -- friends, boyfriends, parental pressure, exam stress, a helicopter mom.... Will she be able to handle all with care?
Movie Review: Agreed it's a remake of the 2008 French Film LOL: Laugh Out Loud, but then there are many reasons to watch LOL. First for its handling of teens and their issues aplenty: they want to look as if they do not care when they actually do; SMSing and FBing is what they swear by; they cope each day to love, live and LOL (Laugh Out Loud); they don't mind drooling over teachers; first time crushes and virginity issues are their driving forces. And then there are more -- shapes of their assets, dealing with heartbreaks, infatuation.... On the other hand are parents with teens they find difficult to handle: the protective instinct of mothers; decoding teen lingo (and swear words); coping with teens who have iPods plugged into their ears just when they want to have a word or two; monitoring teens who want to get quick and dirty; ensuring teens make the right choice (bad lingerie is for girls with a bad future), teens and their diaries....
Lola ( Miley Cyrus) has just had a breakup when she starts finding love in Kyle (Douglas Booth). The two of course get on like a house on fire. But then teen love has never been that easy -- one misunderstanding leads to the other. Teen life too has never been that easy -- Lola has what she thinks is a helicopter mother to deal with simultaneously. After all, mom needs to know everything. All this and more till the two decide to let each other grow up. Generation gap, did we hear?
If Miley Cyrus's Lola does not care about the population of China but wants to hurt those who hurt her, Douglas Booth is perhaps the perfect guy every girl at Wrigley High School wants. But then it's Demi Moore's Anne that walks away with all the applause. Watch her as the confident liberal woman who thinks every woman has the right to sleep with the man she wants (In her case, it's her very own ex-hubby). Watch her as the not-so-confident liberal mother who wants her daughter to sleep with 'only and only' the right guy. In fact, Demi and Miley do bring out the special bond mothers and daughters share today, even in this online world. For the rest, it's over to the music -- I won't let you go, to name one.
Want LOL (Lots Of Love) this V-day? Watch it!
Tip off: Can't live with FB (moms and dad who can't get over teens and their it's-my-life-funda) and without FB (high school teens who are not interested in senior conversation)? This one's for you!
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