Review of Cuties (2020) by Discord24 — 11 Sep 2020

This review is for the people who heard all the terrible things about this movie and are checking reviews to see if it's worth all the hate.

TLDR: The beginning shows promise of a meh social commentary but ultimately is destroyed by the ending and the over sexualization of children (read full review for explanation on why). Overall I wish I could get the time back and do something like watch grass grow.

Spoilers ahead.

The beginning we get to meet Any. She has some clear inner turmoil. She goes to church with her Muslim mother and family. We see the struggles of being an immigrant, and although it doesn't portray it very well it at least puts it in an understanding way. On the way back you meet this 11-year old wearing something you'd see in a cardi-B music video, dancing to pop music. This is the part where the movie starts to go downhill. This "Cuties" dance group storyline starts all while the Muslim storyline is going on as well. Although the storylines are juxtaposed of the different cultures at the beginning, towards the end it gets really confusing and incorhorent. Because of said confusion I'll focus on the theme of this movie. It is about ways adults impact children. Amy watches a cardi-B video and starts giving a laser tag employee a lap dance....ya that happens and for not good reason. I'm going to stop talking about the plot because it pretty much becomes derailed at this point and gets pretty disgusting. I would say about 50 minutes into the movie is where you would want to stop. My reasons for why I think this movie sexualizes and exploits children. You can show how 11- year olds can be influenced by adults in many different ways. The most important part is how this movie was filmed. Instead of filming reactions or at least wide shots focused on their faces they elect to focus on private parts of 11-year olds and the south end as well. The last 10 minutes of this movie is something Jeffery Epstein probably had on his phone. Not bad enough to get you thrown into jail but enough where you understand there's a problem. My point is that they did not film it to be a social commentary about how adults impact children in ways we don't always mean, instead it turns into children erotica . Honestly you take out Amy trying to commit murder for plot convenience, all the close up shots of children, and the multiple storylines. You have something that would help pass the time...but I would spend my time doing something else.

Overall this movie is like if Spider man 3 and Jeffery Epstein had a baby.