'It's like Netflix is our crappy boyfriend, giving us wilted roses and chocolates he bought at CVS five minutes before the date,' writes Jordan Julian
revisits the story of Jodi Kreyman , a pretty, talented teen with a loving family and boyfriend whose life would be perfect, if only she weren’t so darn tall.
Directed by Emily Ting and written by Sam Wolfson, the sequel kicks off with some classic undisguised exposition, a trademark of the Netflix romantic comedy genre. Jodi and Dunk speak directly to the camera as Dunk explains, “Society has deemed it socially unacceptable for a tall girl to date a short guy,” just in case that theme somehow went over our heads.
The problem is that the film has no awareness about how shockingly low its stakes are, and instead of finding the humor in the melodrama and painful self-consciousness of teendom, thefranchise oozes overwrought earnestness. When the first movie came out two years ago, it was skewered on social media for the triviality of its protagonist’s plights. As one Twitter user summed up at the time, “I can’t believe Netflix decided tall white girls are a minority that need representation ASAP.
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