to Adam Sandler cramming himself into a grade school chair for, the"aren't you too old for this?" subgenre of crude school comedies has tended to rely on dissolute older men for its laughs. Now Molly Singer has signed up for class, and she's definitely more than prepared to drop F-bombs and Jägerbombs, and charm her way through an unscheduled return to her alma mater
As played with irrepressible immaturity and room-filling energy by Britt Robertson, it's a miracle Molly graduated the first time . Yet somehow she ended up with enough credit hours to get a job at a legal firm where her boss has finally had enough of her up-all-hours but late -to-everything antics. The only way she'll hold on to her job is to covertly babysit freshman Elliot , Brenda's son who managed to become the campus pariah when he'd barely set foot on the quad.
Of course, the real lessons are learned by the immature protagonist. Writer/director Andy Palmer strikes the perfect balance between Molly's more obnoxious traits and her charming scheming to first manipulate, then become genuinely protective of Elliot.
, this suitably avoids any comparisons. If anything, one of the best running jokes revolves around every student on campus raising an eyebrow at these two old people still hanging around.may apply, it's that Robertson throws herself just as much into the wild and witty comedy as Jennifer Lawrence did in her bigger-budget release, and comedy directors should be putting her at the top of their class.gets a gold star on its report card.
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