
A film about growing apart when growing up. Two best friends relationship strains when one deals with her newfound sexuality and the other with breaking up with her long term boyfriend.... (Full plot summary below)
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A film about growing apart when growing up. Two best friends relationship strains when one deals with her newfound sexuality and the other with breaking up with her long term boyfriend.
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| User ReviewFrankiesay RSuper funny, cute and relatable. Highly recommended for queers / wlw, and carmilla fans. |
| User ReviewTzip WAMAZING! how can you not love Natasha and Elise?! |
| User ReviewKendall CThe film had some hit-or-miss moments but overall it's a touching story of unconditional love and friendship. Great cast and definitely some hilarious moments. |
| User ReviewLorena BThis Movie is Amazing! It shows a different type of Lovestory between two friends and how they have to deal with being Adults and trying to keep their friendship alive. While they botch go through different things in their own Lifes. It is a funny and refreshing movie with good performances from both characters. |
| User ReviewKace CAlmost Adults [Sarah Rotella, 2016, United States] Even with its uneven acting, I really find it entertaining. 6/10 |
| User ReviewZander BAs a film, Almost Adults is mediocre at best. You have a pretty solid performance from Natasha Negovanlis, who plays Cassie, as well as an enjoyable character in Levi played by Justin Gerhard. In addition, Winny Clarke gives a solid performance as Elliot. By far the weakest character is Mackenzie played by Elise Bauman. This isn't good because Mackenzie is our main character and her weakness is felt throughout the film. Almost Adults opens very well but after Mackenzie comes out, the film falls into mediocrity. Unfortunately, AA stays in this state of mediocrity until the one year time skip at very end of the film. Is this to say AA is bad? No but it does lack in emotion. This is not to say AA doesn't have it's moments, because it does, but it's moments feature either Levi, Elliot, or Cassie. Mackenzie just happens to be there. Weak main character and mediocre story aside, the cinematography didn't help the story. Most films are released in an aspect ratio 2.35:1 but Almost Adults was, guesstimating, released in an aspect ratio of 1.77:1 (16:9). The openness of the shots left you trying to find what you were meant to be focused on. Now 16:9 did work for select shots. A prime example would be when Cassie and Mackenzie are texting Levi at the same time. That scene needed to 16:9 aspect ratio or else what would have been the point? Most of the shots showing what was on a screen required that 16:9 aspect ratio but was it worth it? It's possible that shots of the screens would be better suited for the film rather than these graphics showing everything. They're cool but Sherlock does it better. Furthermore, the color pallet is dull. Nothing pops and your eyes just drift around instead of being drawn to a certain object or character. Though mediocre, Almost Adults was what the trailers portrayed it being. Unfortunately, that's all it was. |
| User ReviewMatthew SThis film's screen-writing was too contrived. The framing of shots was off and more often than not it was too zoomed-in. The acting was barely passable: it really felt as if they took youtube personalities and put them into a film. The story in and of itself was completely unintriguing. In my opinion, the only redeeming factor for this film is that it portrays a semi-realistic coming out story. |
| User ReviewLight CI follow the makers of this film (Sarah and Adrianna) as well as the actresses who also play Carmilla, so please know that I am trying to like this movie. My initial thoughts on the plot of this film was that it seemed just like that Leighton Meester movie, "Life Partners" but I was desperately hoping it was not. It wasn't the best movie in the world, but it still beat this one. I'm sorry, but I can't like this movie. It's just not possible. It's cliche, the acting is bad, the script is shallow and boring. The fact that its filled with Lesbian stereotypes to the rim just adds insult to injury. Story line: Boring and cliche. It's filled with lesbian stereotypes and rather than a nervous exploration into the lesbian world as a "baby dyke" it ended up being incredibly shallow, typical and simply unrealistic. The film tries too hard to be funny. And while something said in the film may work among friends, film viewers aren't friends with the characters because there is no depth. Characters: No depth to any of them whatsoever. By the end of the film you don't know them any better than at the beginning of the film. Acting: It's OK at times, but for the most part it is not great. I expected more from Elise and Natasha outside of Carmilla. But considering how both overacted even the simplest of human interactions goes to show that both are simply too inexperienced. This was an hour and a half that I just ended up cringing and stopping the film. When it came to serious scenes, I just could not take either of them seriously. Summary: I hate to say I hated this film. But I hated this film. It was boring, cliche, had no depth and was just not funny. I'm sorry Sarah and Adrianna, but this was a bad film. I walked away not gaining anything from this film except for cringe. |