'LOL' Film Review

‘LOL’ is a coming of age chick flick staring Miley Cyrus as Lola (also known as LOL to her friends.) It follows Lola and her friends in their quest to grow up and find love. Recently heartbroken, when her ex cheated on her, Lola begins to realize that her long time best friend Kyle, played by British actor Douglas Booth, might be the one for her. It shows us the complicated life of teens and the extent they go to in order to pretend they don’t care.

The writer Lisa Azuelos has adapted her 2008 French hit ‘LOL: Laughing out Loud’ for the American viewers and she has kept some of the traditional French features, for example, families openly bathing  in front of each other, adults smoking marijuana and a school trip to Paris. She has also added some more American factors for example texts and status updates pop up on the screen for the now more technical age.

Although sometimes over-acting in her tantrums Miley Cyrus brings her charm and likability to the role and acts out the complicated life well. However she does not have a lot to work with, the script shows teenagers to be sex obsessed and smoking pot constantly; It also shows teenagers to be obsessed with their own problems and although Anne, Lola’s mother (Demi Moore,) and her friends dinner parties give us a break from this, again they only seem to talk about their problems and their sexual wants.

Demi Moore plays a parent trying to be the perfect single mum while in a love triangle with the father of her children (her ex-husband) and Jeremy (Jean-Luc Bilodeau) a police man who gave her a lift home when her heel broke. Moore successfully sheds her usual ‘sexy look’ and becomes a tired looking woman and it is easy to believe that she is a single mum running around after three children.

The cast have believable chemistry especially Cyrus, Ashley Hinshaw ( Emily) and Lina Esco (Janice) they make you believe that they have been best friends for years they interact with each other like real best friends. Demi Moore and Miley Cyrus also have great chemistry and because of their great acting it is easy to believe that they have a complicated mother-daughter relationship. Adam G. Savani is also part of the cast and he plays the loser Wren wanting to have some fun with Emily, he brings a comedic aspect to the plot.

Over all I think LOL is a good film and one that should be watched, it has an amazing cast with buckets of talent.

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Ellie Kay