I think this movie highlighted how bad LGBT rep typically is. The straight couple was the replacement of what usually is the gay couple in movies. Gross, over sexualized side jokes. They genuinely made me straightphobic
honestly, that's EXACTLY what i would have loved to have as a lesbian teenager. i'm tired of tragedy and all i want is just standard predictable tropes the straights always get. i don't even need to love the pairing, i just want to see more queer people existing and doing mundane life stuff like the heteros have had for so long. i'm glad the younger gen is getting to see all this come to fruition in film and tv. Definitely agree on the adults part, though... i could definitely have done without their weird comments all through the film.
There is a comic called fresh romance where one story involves two lesbian high schoolers who fall in love, have their friend be their beard despite falling for a witch girl, and its not too tragic or even at all.
Honestly “what the straights get?” They get tragedy too! I know what you’re saying but they wouldn’t even think of giving gay ppl a tragic ending these years. What bothers me is that sometimes the opposite happens where things are *_too_* idyllic for the Igbtq because not a single friend or family member has said anything remotely microaggressive. Never ever slipping up pronouns or deadnames even when the reveal happens within the series. Or how the Igbtq or black and/or female character has to be… no…. has to STATE that she is a champion for black/female/Igbtq people. You know what I mean?
So Moana's a bicon??? It was really nice to see her acting beyond her voice. I hope she goes far! There was a good deal of cringe in the script of this movie, but it was also nice to see some of these tropes through a queer lense. I'm ready for more LGBTQIA+ rep! Happy Pride Month!!! ❤️💜💙
Rowan Blanchard gave a pretty solid performance too, I think. Maybe not as strong, but she was playing the main character so she had more screen time to work with.
i was watching a commentary with the writers and they pointed out that when they're on the track field like at 10:24 , the advertisements in the background are allreferences to classic teen movies, like stratford sisters paintball, or baby's dance studio, it's so cute. i love this movie
Okay so about the drama with the main actress Rowan Blanchard she was biphobic and Auli’i Cravhalo is bisexual and she basically mentioned Rowan was biphobic, it’s funny how people on Twitter were really patting Auli’i on the back and championing her for this when she probably got in trouble lol calling out people in Hollywood even if they deserve it is a big no no
Rowan already upload an apology video about liking those biphobic tweets as I'd read somewhere. I think Auli'i called her out in a tiktok video back in 2021 and that video is already deleted. I guess they talked things out before the release of this film
Love how everything here turned out to be the complete opposite, Auli'i turned out to be just a mean girl who supports an abuser Johnny Depp and posted awful things about his victim online and therefore, it's more than likely she lied about Rowan, while Rowan is the actual bicon who actually dates women...
Ok. So I watched this movie a week or two ago on a whim cause all the screens for Netflix were occupied. But it was amazing I absolutely loved it. YOUR EARRINGS ARE THE MOMENT fr tho.
Cary Elwes was the actor in the Alicia Silverstone Crush :) This was kind of just another teen movie, I think without the representation it would've just flown under the radar. The adults were rough, I also had to just look away every time they were onscreen :(
I was so annoyed by the mom it became really distracting and pulled me away from the film. Like she was trying WAYYY too hard to be the 'cool mom' and it was really obnoxious. So I feel vindicated that you were also not a fan of the mom!
Hmm idk I think my high school would have let this happen, there was once an assembly where the local teen gay dressed in a pink tutu and danced around to the pink Panther theme song
you definitely need to do a reacting to heartstopper-people is talking so much-and the hype is totally worth it. the atmosphere and the happy ending make everyone hearts melt
23:59 You ever see a 'A Goofy Movie" from 1995? It's no more crazy than Max putting together his Powerline presentation with only a few days notice. True that was a Cartoon, but if you've got a small group effort going, you'd be surprised what you can accomplish in a day. Especially if you're inspired by luuurrrrrvvvee... 22:56 Sooooo is Mullaly just rehashing the super inappropriate elements of her character from Will & Grace for this performance? I mean don't get me wrong, it's nice to have a parent that doesn't treat you like a coddled little angel who can't handle the in's and out's of this sinful, barbarous world. But she's basically taken it a s few steps beyond that into "yeah I drink with my daughter and I know she's barely 18, what of it?" territory. LOTS of casual drinking and sex in this film, on par with some 80s rom-coms. And maybe that's the point? Leaning into the behavior of some teenagers, where this stuff is just kinda expected anyway, so why beat around the bush? I guess the 'drunken teen tries to kiss someone and makes things awkward' trope is served well here; it's established earlier that they both drink and party and have a good time, so this kind of interaction wouldn't be off-brand. But couldn't that be displayed just as well by them being exhausted from dancing or it being really late and they almost get caught by the coach (like the first kiss) to achieve the same ends? Films like this with very bright, verbally skilled, socially aware protagonists kinda rub me the wrong way sometimes. If Paige is as smart, engaging, accomplished and dismissive of authority as she proports to be...why is it so difficult to talk to her crush? And yeah yeah yeah, emotional maturity is not the same thing as social maturity, our deepest desires are sometimes the things that can destroy us if we can't achieve/obtain/access them in some meaningful way, I know it's not always as simple as "talk to the girl". I've been there, I get it. But to me it feels like stretched, forced conflict. Now, what happens between Paige and AJ feels a little more organic, certainly, but there's still the lingering sense of 'no, this isn't according to plan, I should be resisting this and focusing on the thing I've been focusing on since the beginning of act one'. Perhaps we could just...do away with all that, maybe? Critics of this film praised how the writers and the director portrayed an inclusive same-sex relationship as conventional, rather than anti-establishment, and to a degree, I get that. But with the openness of how people flaunt their drinking, sexual habits, snubbing authority and using their brains to figure out solutions vs blind luck, why can't we have a relationship (same sex or otherwise) where the characters go "oh, damn, I was WAY off base with how I thought I felt here, maybe I should be paying attention to the actual chemistry I've established with this other person?" Both girls are clearly smart enough to come to that conclusion and irreverent enough to pull-off a meaningful, plot-relevant admission that they might have been wrong, while not breaking character. We can give a big ole' SKIP to the 'final act liar revealed' trope which grinds my gears like NOBODYS business and focus on happy lovers exploring their relationship for, like, 10 minutes or so. THEN we could show the culmination of this by showing Paige being inspired to do the mural (over a reasonable amount of time) and use THAT as a huge part of her portfolio for college admissions, not as a 'I kinda screwed up, here's this giant thing I made, overnight, to make up for the fact that I wasn't communicating my feelings effectively before". They could make that interesting, certainly a little less forced than this felt. It was cute and frank and fun in places, yes, but as I'm watching all I could think of was "this is not a conflict that needs to be stretched out 90 minutes. Make it more about the art, less about the 'will she won't she' while maintaining the normalization that this kind of relationship really should have in public schools anyway". I think that would be more compelling. But I digress. Good review! The theme works for the summer, definitely. If you could stomach one of the "American Pie" films, that might be a good contrast to this film. :-P
I like all the corny-ness because in other movies it's usually the gays and in this it’s the adults and straights to make the lesbians and bis look more groinded
the way your glasses were casting a shadow on your eye it looked like you were wearing contacts but like those zombie ones and it took me till 15 minutes into the video to realize you were not 🙃
The begging of the movie in terms of script was like kinda cringey? Not all of it, idk I guess they didn’t try to push the “teen lingo” kinda vibes? Like that’s not how teens talked so it was kinda hard to watch the movie but UGH by like the last 35 minutes it was so much better
i honestly didn’t like this movie in the beginning. once the focus was fully put onto the girls, it was fine. but in the beginning when they were building up to their romantic moments and drama, all the sexual jokes from the mother and stuff were just awful 😭 i’m not bothered by sexual things but i know when something is too much n isn’t that funny. the weird jokes felt like compensation for time almost. idk, it was just unnecessary. it is nice to see a single mother who is doing well and truly cares for n supports her daughter, but i think we could’ve done without the overly sexual talks.
I don't get how somethings pass the writing phase in these movies. The mom, the coach, the horny couple... They don't have someone to look and say "maybe this isn't it, chief"? Kinda ruins the immersion and the movie experience to me. That or i'm just dead inside and don't really believe in love anymore.
I’m just sitting and looking at the art. But I don’t think it’s good enough for the school. She’s a digital artist the most. To get in you can’t do that. But the style is too flat? Like this is one of THE BEST schools for art we are talking about.
Maybe I'm just getting too old to keep up with things anymore, but how come every time you said "Lesbian" You corrected it with "Queer girls"? Is Lesbian a bad word now or have negative connotations? Or is there some kind of difference between Lesbian women and queer women? Genuinely not meaning to sound like an ass and trying to understand. Please enlighten me someone in the comment section?
They changed lesbians to queer girls because paige is a lesbian and aj is bisexual. Lesbian is wlw/nmlnm (non-men loving non-men), while queer women is non cishet women. Hope this helped! :)
see, I like the idea of this movie. It́'s just very very realistic, and I don't like what's real right now (the sheer amount of "gay" kids at school, the sensitivity, the literal mom. It just makes me frustrated because they did it so well. Similar to Senior Year with Rebel Wilson. It's just like, the world and American culture really sucks right now and I watch TV to get away from that.) Most people aren't ay and the more we push this on people the more confused and hurt people will become. We do not need to be giving 13-year-olds identity crises and you can say whatever you want but hab=ving the majority be the norm isn't a bad thing as long as we don't shame the minority. This is coming from a lesbian, we just gotta chill out a little. Every single girl at my school is some form of "bi" and you know that's not actually true they just want attention and they don't wanna be straight because rn the world is making it out to be a bad thing.
I think this movie highlighted how bad LGBT rep typically is. The straight couple was the replacement of what usually is the gay couple in movies. Gross, over sexualized side jokes. They genuinely made me straightphobic
honestly, that's EXACTLY what i would have loved to have as a lesbian teenager. i'm tired of tragedy and all i want is just standard predictable tropes the straights always get. i don't even need to love the pairing, i just want to see more queer people existing and doing mundane life stuff like the heteros have had for so long. i'm glad the younger gen is getting to see all this come to fruition in film and tv. Definitely agree on the adults part, though... i could definitely have done without their weird comments all through the film.
There is a comic called fresh romance where one story involves two lesbian high schoolers who fall in love, have their friend be their beard despite falling for a witch girl, and its not too tragic or even at all.
I’m Bisexual but same this is like my dream as a bi teen
Honestly “what the straights get?” They get tragedy too! I know what you’re saying but they wouldn’t even think of giving gay ppl a tragic ending these years.
What bothers me is that sometimes the opposite happens where things are *_too_* idyllic for the Igbtq because not a single friend or family member has said anything remotely microaggressive. Never ever slipping up pronouns or deadnames even when the reveal happens within the series. Or how the Igbtq or black and/or female character has to be… no…. has to STATE that she is a champion for black/female/Igbtq people. You know what I mean?
So Moana's a bicon??? It was really nice to see her acting beyond her voice. I hope she goes far!
There was a good deal of cringe in the script of this movie, but it was also nice to see some of these tropes through a queer lense. I'm ready for more LGBTQIA+ rep!
Happy Pride Month!!! ❤️💜💙
How so? What do you mean a “queer” lense?
Rowan Blanchard gave a pretty solid performance too, I think. Maybe not as strong, but she was playing the main character so she had more screen time to work with.
Better this than her as Riley in 'Girl Meets World'.
i was watching a commentary with the writers and they pointed out that when they're on the track field like at 10:24 , the advertisements in the background are allreferences to classic teen movies, like stratford sisters paintball, or baby's dance studio, it's so cute. i love this movie
sis have you reached out to Trin yet? she's been collabin.... I cannot urge you more.. ✨️manifesting the sapphic energies I want to see✨️
"keep in mind I was 24!! not a teen, 24!"
GIRL I thought you were 19!!
LOOOOL the number of times ppl have thought I'm 19 😭
Okay so about the drama with the main actress Rowan Blanchard she was biphobic and Auli’i Cravhalo is bisexual and she basically mentioned Rowan was biphobic, it’s funny how people on Twitter were really patting Auli’i on the back and championing her for this when she probably got in trouble lol calling out people in Hollywood even if they deserve it is a big no no
auli'i and rowan were actually friends prior to filming. they use to hang out
@@narayastarks do you know when did they start filming the movie crush?
Rowan already upload an apology video about liking those biphobic tweets as I'd read somewhere. I think Auli'i called her out in a tiktok video back in 2021 and that video is already deleted. I guess they talked things out before the release of this film
@@narayastarks ok but we never saw them together in any of the bts pictures/clips or even in the interview
Love how everything here turned out to be the complete opposite, Auli'i turned out to be just a mean girl who supports an abuser Johnny Depp and posted awful things about his victim online and therefore, it's more than likely she lied about Rowan, while Rowan is the actual bicon who actually dates women...
Ok. So I watched this movie a week or two ago on a whim cause all the screens for Netflix were occupied. But it was amazing I absolutely loved it.
YOUR EARRINGS ARE THE MOMENT fr tho.
Super cute hair Sophia!
For another potential pride month entry - First Kill
Thank you!
Omg yes!!
Cary Elwes was the actor in the Alicia Silverstone Crush :) This was kind of just another teen movie, I think without the representation it would've just flown under the radar. The adults were rough, I also had to just look away every time they were onscreen :(
I was so annoyed by the mom it became really distracting and pulled me away from the film. Like she was trying WAYYY too hard to be the 'cool mom' and it was really obnoxious. So I feel vindicated that you were also not a fan of the mom!
Hulu needs to do better with their advertising for their films. Don't focus on advertising online more and very little on cable TV.
Yeah I feel like I don't hear much about hulu originals. They need a better advertising team LOL
Hulu hire this person, they're onto sumn
Hmm idk I think my high school would have let this happen, there was once an assembly where the local teen gay dressed in a pink tutu and danced around to the pink Panther theme song
And yes this was a public school and about 400 kids a grade
Tbh I think it would depend on the area. But I can already imagine the number of phone calls from "concerned" parents lmao
@@SophiaPhannn oh I absolutely agree, I’m in s very liberal area and LGBTQ+ is huge here
converse are actually pretty good for running because the soles mold to your feet. like in the 50s-70s basketball players used to wear converse
you definitely need to do a reacting to heartstopper-people is talking so much-and the hype is totally worth it. the atmosphere and the happy ending make everyone hearts melt
23:59 You ever see a 'A Goofy Movie" from 1995? It's no more crazy than Max putting together his Powerline presentation with only a few days notice. True that was a Cartoon, but if you've got a small group effort going, you'd be surprised what you can accomplish in a day. Especially if you're inspired by luuurrrrrvvvee...
22:56 Sooooo is Mullaly just rehashing the super inappropriate elements of her character from Will & Grace for this performance? I mean don't get me wrong, it's nice to have a parent that doesn't treat you like a coddled little angel who can't handle the in's and out's of this sinful, barbarous world. But she's basically taken it a s few steps beyond that into "yeah I drink with my daughter and I know she's barely 18, what of it?" territory. LOTS of casual drinking and sex in this film, on par with some 80s rom-coms. And maybe that's the point? Leaning into the behavior of some teenagers, where this stuff is just kinda expected anyway, so why beat around the bush? I guess the 'drunken teen tries to kiss someone and makes things awkward' trope is served well here; it's established earlier that they both drink and party and have a good time, so this kind of interaction wouldn't be off-brand. But couldn't that be displayed just as well by them being exhausted from dancing or it being really late and they almost get caught by the coach (like the first kiss) to achieve the same ends?
Films like this with very bright, verbally skilled, socially aware protagonists kinda rub me the wrong way sometimes. If Paige is as smart, engaging, accomplished and dismissive of authority as she proports to be...why is it so difficult to talk to her crush? And yeah yeah yeah, emotional maturity is not the same thing as social maturity, our deepest desires are sometimes the things that can destroy us if we can't achieve/obtain/access them in some meaningful way, I know it's not always as simple as "talk to the girl". I've been there, I get it. But to me it feels like stretched, forced conflict. Now, what happens between Paige and AJ feels a little more organic, certainly, but there's still the lingering sense of 'no, this isn't according to plan, I should be resisting this and focusing on the thing I've been focusing on since the beginning of act one'.
Perhaps we could just...do away with all that, maybe?
Critics of this film praised how the writers and the director portrayed an inclusive same-sex relationship as conventional, rather than anti-establishment, and to a degree, I get that. But with the openness of how people flaunt their drinking, sexual habits, snubbing authority and using their brains to figure out solutions vs blind luck, why can't we have a relationship (same sex or otherwise) where the characters go "oh, damn, I was WAY off base with how I thought I felt here, maybe I should be paying attention to the actual chemistry I've established with this other person?"
Both girls are clearly smart enough to come to that conclusion and irreverent enough to pull-off a meaningful, plot-relevant admission that they might have been wrong, while not breaking character. We can give a big ole' SKIP to the 'final act liar revealed' trope which grinds my gears like NOBODYS business and focus on happy lovers exploring their relationship for, like, 10 minutes or so. THEN we could show the culmination of this by showing Paige being inspired to do the mural (over a reasonable amount of time) and use THAT as a huge part of her portfolio for college admissions, not as a 'I kinda screwed up, here's this giant thing I made, overnight, to make up for the fact that I wasn't communicating my feelings effectively before". They could make that interesting, certainly a little less forced than this felt. It was cute and frank and fun in places, yes, but as I'm watching all I could think of was "this is not a conflict that needs to be stretched out 90 minutes. Make it more about the art, less about the 'will she won't she' while maintaining the normalization that this kind of relationship really should have in public schools anyway". I think that would be more compelling.
But I digress. Good review! The theme works for the summer, definitely. If you could stomach one of the "American Pie" films, that might be a good contrast to this film. :-P
just as I was stuck constantly refreshing my sub box, another banger
Your hair looks so pretty when you put it up!!!
Thank yooouuuu! I usually don't like putting my hair up, but the color was faded too much 😂
@@SophiaPhannn Lol I understand
I like all the corny-ness because in other movies it's usually the gays and in this it’s the adults and straights to make the lesbians and bis look more groinded
Oh god, I never expected this movie to reference the cesspool that is the w*ncest side of the spn fandom. Wow...
I loved this reaction video! Why do I kind of want to see you react to the other Crush movie? Lol
I’m in love with your earrings
I love your hair so much in this video!!☺💕
Thank you!!
Good morning!! I literally just started watching this movie and haven't finished it but I'll finish it after watching your video ☺️❤️!
the way your glasses were casting a shadow on your eye it looked like you were wearing contacts but like those zombie ones and it took me till 15 minutes into the video to realize you were not 🙃
The begging of the movie in terms of script was like kinda cringey? Not all of it, idk I guess they didn’t try to push the “teen lingo” kinda vibes? Like that’s not how teens talked so it was kinda hard to watch the movie but UGH by like the last 35 minutes it was so much better
Holy shit you were so entertaining and you said the things I said when I watched the movie. I’m definitely subscribing.
yea there was a lil drama bc one of the love i treated (rowan) is biphobic while the other i’ve interest (isabella) is bisexual so….
I hope you watch Heartstopper too! It's way better as far as the teen romance goes.
i honestly didn’t like this movie in the beginning. once the focus was fully put onto the girls, it was fine. but in the beginning when they were building up to their romantic moments and drama, all the sexual jokes from the mother and stuff were just awful 😭 i’m not bothered by sexual things but i know when something is too much n isn’t that funny. the weird jokes felt like compensation for time almost. idk, it was just unnecessary. it is nice to see a single mother who is doing well and truly cares for n supports her daughter, but i think we could’ve done without the overly sexual talks.
This movie had me going into cardiac arrest
Shout out to that brown bread at Cheesecake Factory.
Great review!
Not the NBA Youngboy sound effect at 14:11 😂😂😂. This movie was not bad, to be honest. Hmmm not bad
I don't get how somethings pass the writing phase in these movies. The mom, the coach, the horny couple... They don't have someone to look and say "maybe this isn't it, chief"? Kinda ruins the immersion and the movie experience to me. That or i'm just dead inside and don't really believe in love anymore.
What if the mom may be what future moms can be like if they are overly friendly with their kids instead of a parent
This movie was so good
Omg hey Sophia! Love that you posted! I might want to start reaction videos soon. What do you use to edit your videos?
Final cut pro!
@@SophiaPhannn thanks so much!!!!❤️❤️
Amazing Commentary 😁
luv ur earrings!
Hello I am stalking this movie so thank u for watching it cause shout out to the gays
that was crazy about the LGBTQ community
can u watch unpregnant pls I saw that barbie ferreira plays in it so it must be cool
your look for this video is fireeeee 👍⭐🔥
Yes I love The Crush (Alicia Silverstone) and it’s so ick I love it 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
MISS MAAM MY NAME IS SOPHIA PHAN OMGGGG
Love ur hair😍
Obsessed with your lollipop ear rings
"They're twins?! I thought they were just sister's" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 OG!!!
I’m just sitting and looking at the art. But I don’t think it’s good enough for the school. She’s a digital artist the most. To get in you can’t do that. But the style is too flat? Like this is one of THE BEST schools for art we are talking about.
There are a lot of queer at my school
I thought this movie was so cuteeee but you low key seem so annoyed the whole movie lolllll
LOL NOOO I was only annoyed at the adults
Please could you watch encanto
this movie made me super gay in this here pride month. especially bc all of the straight people in this movie are unbearable. 🤧
I have always liked Sophia, but since ahe died her hair I am smitten. I guess one might say I have a "Crush", eh, eh, pun intended😊
Rowan was cancelled?
I love you 😘 💕❤️😘💕❤️
cary elwes
also are you and that guy still friends 😵💫
No lol that's a story for a different video 🤪
Maybe I'm just getting too old to keep up with things anymore, but how come every time you said "Lesbian" You corrected it with "Queer girls"? Is Lesbian a bad word now or have negative connotations? Or is there some kind of difference between Lesbian women and queer women? Genuinely not meaning to sound like an ass and trying to understand. Please enlighten me someone in the comment section?
They changed lesbians to queer girls because paige is a lesbian and aj is bisexual. Lesbian is wlw/nmlnm (non-men loving non-men), while queer women is non cishet women. Hope this helped! :)
Moana
this movie bad
see, I like the idea of this movie. It́'s just very very realistic, and I don't like what's real right now (the sheer amount of "gay" kids at school, the sensitivity, the literal mom. It just makes me frustrated because they did it so well. Similar to Senior Year with Rebel Wilson. It's just like, the world and American culture really sucks right now and I watch TV to get away from that.) Most people aren't ay and the more we push this on people the more confused and hurt people will become. We do not need to be giving 13-year-olds identity crises and you can say whatever you want but hab=ving the majority be the norm isn't a bad thing as long as we don't shame the minority. This is coming from a lesbian, we just gotta chill out a little. Every single girl at my school is some form of "bi" and you know that's not actually true they just want attention and they don't wanna be straight because rn the world is making it out to be a bad thing.