Review of Love, Simon (2018) by Joe M — 16 Mar 2018

More like an After School Special.

Initially I thought this is a very good movie but the more I thought about it, the lower my impression was. All the politically correct boxes where checked, white upper middle class, poor black girl from Baltimore, stereotypical over the top gay boy, obnoxious nerd, and the tri-factor of Black, Gay, and Jewish. Nick Robinson did not look 17, yet more like a college senior than high school senior. Jennifer Gardner as the mother/psychotherapist was not very in tune with her own child, and her acting was mediocre at best, and her later response to Simon's coming out was lackluster for a mental health professional, Josh Duhamel, Simon's father played a stereotypical one dimensional post college football jock. The Drama Coach was the funniest character and the Vice principal had 10 more minutes of screen time than necessary. I think my biggest problem was with the lack of response by parents of their sons force outing and more so the lack of repercussions faced by Nick's character. This is a great feel-good movie until you start think back on what you saw.