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In 1957, when second-graders Bryce and Juli first meet, Juli knows it';s love. Bryce isn';t so sure. Beginning that day, and for the next six years, young Bryce does everything he can to keep away as much as possible from Juli. When they start the sixth grade, Bryce hopes that he can get rid of Juli so he asks the girl Juli hates the most, Sherry Stalls, out on a date. This plan of Bryce';s works for a while up until his best friend, Garrett, takes an interest in Sherry and tells her the truth about Bryce asking her out, she doesn';t take it well and angrily slaps Bryce. Based on the novel 'Flipped' by Wendelin Van Draanen, this films centers on two eighth-graders start to have feelings for each other despite being total opposites.
If the feature doesn't latch on to the senses immediately with its sugared claws, it's a long, ugly 85 minutes of dreadful behavior to endure, waiting for an ending that never arrives.
The importance of understanding varying perspectives is always worth communicating, and Flipped, despite its cloying approach, manages to deliver this idea with a decent amount of sincerity intact.
That Flipped isn't insufferably cute is a measure of its integrity. But it still strains to view the world through the eyes of children without a filter of grown-up cynicism.
August 27, 2010
Cinematical
Has my heart grown so cold and battle-scarred that I can't allow myself to be completely won over by Flipped, or is Flipped such a load of flavorless mush that there's not enough charm for me to embrace?