A cheerleading stunt gone wrong landed her in a 20-year coma. Now she's 37, newly awake and ready to live out her high school dream: becoming prom queen.while I didn't hate high school, you can't pay me enough money to want to relive it. Yet Americans have some strange fascination with films about adults going back to their high school days, as if it holds some secret to making their present adult life better.
Stephanie is played by Rebel Wilson - who looks very different since her last couple of movies in 2019. Surprisingly, her usual bombastic persona is slightly toned down here but still retains her signature humour - which you either love or hate - and Wilson pulls through some surprisingly tearful moments.
As for the rest of the cast, there's a delightfully sweet performance from Angourie Rice that perfectly encapsulates Wilson's persona as a younger Stephanie. I would've preferred watching the whole movie with her instead. Another great addition to the cast with his very subtle humour was Sam Richardson fromfame, playing one of Stephanie's grown best friends who has - sigh - always had a big crush on her.
The best way to answer whether or not you would have fun with this film entirely depends on where you fall on the Rebel Wilson laugh scale and your ability to not ask too many questions from a movie that puts in bare minimum effort when it comes to common sense. But if you love a good, bad movie and are feeling reminiscent of 2000s classics , then you could do worse thanIn times of uncertainty you need journalism you can trust.
NetflixSA Not good