![]() Perhaps this was less of the fault of the actresses and more of the “it’s just not funny” line. It also didn’t help that I found Georgia and her friends to be completely and utterly annoying. And without the funny it just becomes well, just awkward and embarrassing. The book was celebrating the awkwardness of being 14 and not exactly knowing quite how to deal with boys. ![]() Not that I minded the whole romance bit they made Robbie and Tom a bit younger than in the book (which was good an 18 year old dating a 14 year old was a bit much for me) and I have to admit that Aaron Johnson is a cutie. While many of the choice plot elements were there - the pimento olive costume or shaving of the eyebrows or the kissing lesson, for example - the movie ditched the tongue-in-cheek observations of Georgia’s diary for a more sweet teen-romance. The hilarious diaries of Georgia Nicholson out there for everyone to see.Įxcept… they weren’t so hilarious on screen. A little British production, probably never saw screen time here in the US, but there it is. ![]() When I reviewed Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging, Bobbie at ‘Til We Read Again commented that her girls liked the movie. ![]()
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