SENIOR YEAR
US, 2022, 111 minutes, Colour.
Rebel Wilson, Angourie, Mary Holland, Sam Richardson, Zoe Chao, Justin Hartley, Jade Bender, Chris Parnell, Alicia Silverstone, Lucy Taylor.
Directed by Alex Hardcastle.
Senior year is a college comedy – but with some differences. It is also reminiscent of those comedies where characters into change, or find themselves living in later times.
This is the story of Stephanie in her senior year at high school, played by Australian actress Angourie Rice. Stephanie is ambitious, cheerleading, wants to be Prom Queen, practices, is pushy, aggravates her rivals, has an accident and goes into coma for 20 years.
When she wakes from the coma, she is played by Rebel Wilson (also producer of this film). Which means that this is a comedy, Rebel Wilson-like, for her fans. On awakening, and getting used to the situations of 2022, she decides to go back to school again and rekindle her at ambitions in cheerleading and to be the Prom Queen. She bonds with her father, is helped by friends from school days, Martha and Seth, although with her determination she alienates them. She also finds past rivals, now married,
The comedy is in seeing Rebel Wilson adapting from 17 years old mentality to coping with 37. Once again, she repeats her wilfulness, aggravates the rivals, and has to make some Prom Queen and moral choices.
There is a cameo by Alicia Silverstone a previous Prom Queen who has fallen on hard times.
- The title, 2002, 2022?
- The American setting, the town, homes, school, environment? Cheerleading, Proms? The musical score?
- The plausibility of the plot? The episodes of 2002, families, friendships, rivalries, school, cheerleading, plots and ambitions? The disaster? Stephanie, her hopes, practice, performance, routines, the accident, the coma?
- The plausibility of the plot? The episodes of 2022, Stephanie reviving? At middle age, the new time phase, her relationship with her father, her relationship with her friends, Martha and Seth, memories of Blaine, memories of Tiffany? Their being married? Martha and Seth and their work? Friendship?
- The comedy with Stephanie adapting to the present world? Decision to go back to school? Ambitions for the cheerleading, performance, wanting to be Prom Queen? A relationship with her father? Martha and Seth? Martha and her home, Stephanie exploiting this, Martha’s reaction? Stephanie and the experience of going back to school?
- Brie, at school, friendship, Tiffany and her manoeuvrings, misunderstandings with Blaine, drink?
- Stephanie, becoming obnoxious, studies, performance, reactions to Tiffany? The competition, the manoeuvrings, Lance as the Prom King? Brie?
- Stephanie, change, achievement, lack of achievement, change of heart?
