Review of Loserville (2016) by Nativenewyorker — 05 Oct 2016

To be upfront, I don't like high school movies, as a general rule, but I'm a Matt McGorry fan, so I decided to watch this anyway. Thought I'd be fast forwarding, but it won me over. The characters are all played with a great deal of empathy and humor (McGorry, for example, is the high school gym teacher dating the lead character's mom, played by Darby Stanchfield, and while their "cougar" relationship could be played for laughs, it's instead refreshingly depicted as perhaps the healthiest relationship in the film).

There are a lot of plots that get covered, but every actor shows why they're on screen, though the movie starts to rush a bit as it tries to wrap everything up. All in all though, I might have come for McGorry, but I stayed for Stanchfield, Chris Bellant, Natalie Hall, Nick Fink, Jonathan Lipnicki (!!!!!!!!), the list honestly goes on and on.

Excited to see what the rest of these up and coming kids do. If you don't laugh at "This is how I hold my newspaper" (you'll see), then you have no soul.