Barely Lethal had the makings of a great teen comedy. It had an interesting concept that the filmmakers were able to show off in the movie. It was put together ...
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The movie has a few funny situations and moments, but it is mostly a flat one that is worse than a lot of the movies it is making fun of.
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This movie has a lot of laughs, the story and dialogue are pretty good, but mainly the actors are very good. Some of the characters try to act like mean ass ...
The movie, directed by Kyle Newman, is really aimed at a somewhat younger audience, working harmless humor and comfort-food plotlines (including ...
When thrown into a high school setting, the film should prove ripe for riffs, where it admittedly hits the mark on a few stellar scenes. Most of ...
Hailee Steinfeld plays a secret agent mentored by Samuel L. Jackson and pursued by Jessica Alba in Kyle Newman's high-school comedy.
Barely Lethal has brought both the crazy action things from being a trained assassin and living life as a teenager together and done it well.
Barely Lethal is not a bad movie, as much as it is just unsuccessful in really making itself work. The script has a lot of decent ideas, but ...
Barely Lethal is a record-scratch comedy, one of those movies built on ironies so thin that the sound of a record scratching is there in ...