Booksmart

Finally caught up with this last night, really enjoyed it, smart, funny and offered some nice twists on the well trodden high school high jinks genre (may have just invented that genre!).

Carried along by two smart and charming central performances from Kaitlyn Dever (Amy) and Beanie Feldstein (Molly). The story centres around two girls who ditched high school fun for hard work and study to ensure they get into their chosen colleges, but when they find that other kids who’d partied also got into those colleges they decide they need to have some fun the night before graduation.

As you can imagine American Pie style fun ensues. But to its credit it offers more than that and for me it focussed on the problems of pre-judging those we don’t really know, across the film not only do we discover different sides to everyone but also we see how others don’t percieve Amy and Molly in the way they assume they do.

While it’s not earth shatteringly original, it provides some nice twists on the formula and it is packed with humour, charm and plenty of heart.