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I watched this movie at the end of last year with low expectations. I saw about a half hour of Sleepover and decided that Alex Vega was among the worst young actresses in Hollywood.

Odd Girl Out is not completely pathetic "Days Of Our Lives" crap, but it is so stereotyped and the characters are badly interpreted. I found Vega's Vanessa to be pathetic, stupid and a victim. For example her friends create a hate website about her and yet she still asks her friend Stacey if she's angry with her... which honestly makes no sense. The mother was actually fairly impressive but nothing to write home about. The film drags a bit and Vanessa continues to run back to Stacey even after she continues to bully her.

It's hard for me to judge because I have never been to a American high school and my own high school isn't to bad with girl fights and all that jazz, but I think it became heavily over the top with the hate websites, chopping off of hair and that OD thing. It just seems that those girls became way to cruel and over the top.

It's pretty bad but I can see why it might appeal to some people. In my opinion however, it's a inaccurate portrayal of teenage girls. From my own experience, they are far more subtle and sneaky than this films portrays. If you want a film that is "in touch" with teenagers and never gets melodramatic, watch Mean Girls.

I will begin by saying that I went to see this movie with a friend of mine who is quite into cults and Gothic horror and all of that. Just by looking at the movie poster, I could see that it was most probably going to be lame. I was right.

The film starts with bleary heavy metal music and pictures of pentagrams all over the place... and all of a sudden we see a group of guys standing at a cliff, looking something like a darker version of the Backstreet Boys or NSYNC. Anyone agree that this sounds like crap yet? The dialogue was so awfully cheesy. The film was basically all visual effects and it seemed like the screenwriter had just put in words to cover up the CGI-less scenes. Some of the lines that told me that made me increase my dislike of this film were: "Harry Potter can kiss my ass." "Come to find Miss Muffet have we." And the best for last "I just saw... A DARKLING." The acting wasn't much better. Both the actors and actresses were woody and there characters underdeveloped and stupid (I mean, when I light bulb explodes in a creepy bathroom, no idiot would walk around in a towel trying to find out why.) In my opinion, in some way or another, the director must have known he had just created a piece of crap, because, probably just to get more people to want to see it, he made the actors either topless or in a tank top with "steroid" type muscles sticking out... AND they were almost constantly drenched in sweat.

All in all, don't waste your money. This is meaningless and pathetic porn. It was painful to sit through and seemed to drag on forever like a hurt donkey. Within five minuets of walking out the movie house, I'd forgotten all about it.