Ua comatose cheerleader wakes up two decades later e mistake Lady Gaga for Madonna. It’s the first of a myriad of jokes by Cheerleader forever (currently most viewed movie on Netflix), predictable American comedy with Rebel Wilson. Set in yet another high school in the US provincethe film takes advantage of the inevitable prom (the end-of-year party, sealed by the election of the institute’s most popular king and queen) along with another typical Hollywood comedy expedient: the leap in time.
Said frankly Cheerleader forever it is rather vulgar and banal, however it has some values: a protagonist with a disruptive comedy, a tenuous but acute contemporary criticism e an emerging actor which bodes very well.
Cheerleader forever, the plot
Stephanie (Wilson) is the newest addition to the school and nobody likes it, mainly because she dresses like Nellie’s The house on the prairie and his people look like a couple of catechists. Plus it has a funny accent (she’s Australian) and her only friends are high school geek and nerd, Marth and Seth. Determined to become popular, she manages to become head cheerleader by ousting the previous queen, from which he inherits the sports boyfriend. It is 1999, and the first bars of the film resound against the backdrop of a soundtrack with a powerful nostalgia effect.
Rebel Wilson. (Netflix)
From Avril Lavigne to Britney Spears – honored with a hilarious remake of the video by You Drive Me Crazy that alone is worth watching the film – Cheerleader it is a dip in the years between the two millennia. At some point it happens ch Stephanie crashes to the ground after a triple pike flight ending up in a coma, she wakes up twenty years later with flawless styling and dye, the latest fashion make-up and an incredible motor ability for a patient who has not been for so long.
He also boasts an intellectual resilience worthy of Stephen Hawking: in an unspecified period metabolizes all the pop culture on which he slept just for the sake of dispensing shrewd jokes on the spread of Instagram and social media, and the American obsession with politically correct.
We joke on social media
This is where Cheerleader forever it gets interesting, thanks to a gimmick already seen in Heathers (the 2018 serial sequel to the cult Splinters of madness of 1989), that is to transfer the part of the school elite to overweight teenagers, ethnic minorities and LGBT groupsby virtue of a system that ghettoizes those who risk racist comments towards the historically most bullied categories.
In an exasperation of modern timesSteph’s high school also banned the election of the kings of the prom so as not to cause trauma to the losersyou can not say the gay and retarded (under penalty of expulsion) and the queen of the school is a student who promotes awareness campaigns and search for popularity on Instagram.
Rebel Wilson. (Netflix)
Rebel Wilson superstar
Steph’s character offers audiences a disenchanted look at modern times, ironic and ridiculous. It is on her completely that Alex Harcastle’s film relies, albeit among the supporting actors face the twenty year old Joshua Colleya very promising Broadway actor who plays the stylish Yaz flaunts an outfit that is more glamorous than the other. Let’s hope he becomes the next Ezra Miller, he’s already a style icon.
Joshua Colley. (Getty Images for Netflix)
But it is precisely on Wilson that the film focuses everything, on the new slender physique which allows her to do what works best for her: the female version of Ryan Reynolds. As for the actor of Deadpooleven any interpretation of the comic it is a variation on the theme of one’s personality. Where Ryan plays at being funny and goofy but attractive, Rebel is there queen of social unrest and obscene jokes (over the course of almost two hours he appoints fellatio at least 10 times).
Rebel Wilson. (Netflix)
Times change
Thanks to the former heroine of Pitch Perfect And The bride’s friends, you get to the credits without drowning in the already seen and in the banality of the subplots offered by her boring friends, her former rival turned into a rich and snooty desperate housewife, and Blaine (the Justin Hartley of This is Us) – handsome and popular ex turned horny car salesman.
The last lines of Cheerleader forever they invoke the search for authenticity and remember the sad fate of high school winners become losers in adult life: to reiterate, Harcastle inconvenient none other than Alicia Silverstonethe queen of American prom movies of the nineties (legendary Cher from Girls in Beverly Hills). As a disillusioned ex cheerleader is the perfect end to this merry-go-round of nostalgia.
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