Senior Year (2022)

 Senior Year (2022)

2/10

Starring

Rebel Wilson

Sam Richardson

Zoë Chao

Mary Holland

 

Directed by Alex Hardcastle

 

There was no point in this movie that will make you say, "Wow!" There was neither any point that will make you say, "Cool!" This movie is poor, bad, and desperately needed to get a grip on itself.

It does not play close to being truthful about reality, and doesn’t even make any attempt to entertain. The movie feels like something Rebel Wilson had to make just to pay the bills.

Netflix is complaining that they are losing subscribers, but they fail to understand that one of the reasons they are losing them is because of how poor their movies are. Bad acting, bad writing, and annoying characters. Even when the movie flipped the script on what the "mean girls" in high school are and will do, it didn’t matter – I had already lost interest in the movie to care.

The lead character is Stephanie, who was not part of the popular girls in the late 90s and early 2000s in high school. She decided to do something about that. Seventeen-year-old Stephanie joined the cheerleading squad and became very popular. She became complacent and selfish to her true friends, focusing on becoming Prom Queen. Her rival, Tiffany, had her own plans, and in one of the cheers, Stephanie was tossed in the air and Tiffany pushed the catcher away. This caused Stephanie to hit the ground hard and fall into a twenty-year coma. When she woke up, she was now thirty-seven-year-old Rebel Wilson. Who, if you remember, was in a coma for twenty years but was able to walk with no challenge at all. Now, I’ve slept and woken up and had difficulty walking, not to mention being asleep for twenty years. Let's add to an already annoying revelation: Stephanie had enough energy to talk with no challenge, and even gained weight. I don’t need to be a doctor to know that all these medical miracles are not remotely possible. And to top it off, she was released the same day she woke up from the coma.

Now out in the world, she is still seventeen in a thirty-seven-year-old body and acts seventeen throughout the movie. The whole "acting seventeen" bit was annoying to behold and made watching the movie more like a burden than anything else.

Netflix needs to shape up and do better if they want to keep their subscribers and stop blaming password sharing for their bad delivery of entertainment. Don’t bother seeing this movie, even if you have nothing better to do – you may end up clawing at your own eyes.