Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Apr 13, 2015 0:31:40 GMT
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duff
The Sydney Sunday Telegraph’s Nick Dent said that for those who found Cinderella (2015) a little cold and prefers their Cinderella stories with some contemporary relevance then perhaps The Duff, a teen comedy is for them.
The DUFF stands for Designated Ugly Fat Friend and it refers here to Bianca played by Mae Whitman. To make it clear I have never thought of Mae Whitman as either ugly nor fat and this movie certainly hasn’t my changed my viewpoint.
Other members of the cast include the beautiful Allison Janney as Bianca’s mother, Ken Jeong who I also had been seeing in his regular role in Community and his guest stints in Glee, incidentally in both their sixth seasons, and Robbie Amell.
Apart from Dent’s opinion I cannot find anything that confirms the influence of Cinderella of this movie or the book that it was based on.
So if Cinderella had been an influence it certainly played well on it.
One frustrating moment of The Duff is Bianca ditching her two friends when she thought she was their DUFF someone to make them look good. Bianca could not have been wrong on that.
However that did result in Bianca venturing out on her own including spending time with Wes her next door neighbour and friend at school.
Mae Whitman as the film’s lead actor carried The Duff really well and showed Bianca being her own person after wrongfully ditching her two aforementioned friends.
In Dent’s review he gave it three and a half stars and the verdict of “Predictable but likeable teen comedy” and concluded that the “genre’s godfather, the late John Hughes, would have given this story a bit more bite but Whitman and Amell are funny and charming despite, at 26, pushing believability in the role of fumbling teenagers.”
The Sydney Sunday Telegraph’s Nick Dent said that for those who found Cinderella (2015) a little cold and prefers their Cinderella stories with some contemporary relevance then perhaps The Duff, a teen comedy is for them.
The DUFF stands for Designated Ugly Fat Friend and it refers here to Bianca played by Mae Whitman. To make it clear I have never thought of Mae Whitman as either ugly nor fat and this movie certainly hasn’t my changed my viewpoint.
Other members of the cast include the beautiful Allison Janney as Bianca’s mother, Ken Jeong who I also had been seeing in his regular role in Community and his guest stints in Glee, incidentally in both their sixth seasons, and Robbie Amell.
Apart from Dent’s opinion I cannot find anything that confirms the influence of Cinderella of this movie or the book that it was based on.
So if Cinderella had been an influence it certainly played well on it.
One frustrating moment of The Duff is Bianca ditching her two friends when she thought she was their DUFF someone to make them look good. Bianca could not have been wrong on that.
However that did result in Bianca venturing out on her own including spending time with Wes her next door neighbour and friend at school.
Mae Whitman as the film’s lead actor carried The Duff really well and showed Bianca being her own person after wrongfully ditching her two aforementioned friends.
In Dent’s review he gave it three and a half stars and the verdict of “Predictable but likeable teen comedy” and concluded that the “genre’s godfather, the late John Hughes, would have given this story a bit more bite but Whitman and Amell are funny and charming despite, at 26, pushing believability in the role of fumbling teenagers.”