Waste of time

A Masterpiece!

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

I saw Wild Child recently and I felt Georgia King as head girl Harriet Bentley stole the film. This was King's first feature film and I think she has quickly developed into a very talented actress. The film's treatment of Harriet made me feel sympathy for her; She was clearly insecure though highly ambitious, competitive and a bully yet the "Honor Court" scene with her imploding; ranting hate and jealously at Poppy resulting in her humiliation and expulsion was for me this otherwise mediocre films most powerful moment. The end scene of Harriet being turned on by her formerly loyal friends added to this feeling of unease; Was Harriet really such a vile monster or like Poppy a teenage girl with her own issues and problems? It can be argued that Harriet was an unpleasant person but was Poppy really so different? I don't think putting Harriet's face and contact number onto a phone sex line was remotely amusing yet Poppy is seen as "nice" as opposed to the "bad" Harriet. Wild Child for me would have been a much better, more uplifting film if Harriet had "earned" Poppy's respect through apology and redemption.

I had to watch this with my young nieces, and honestly, it made me sick. Cliché-ridden doesn't even begin to describe this drivel. I had never seen anything with Emma Roberts before and after this certainly never will. OK, as a rule it's a hard act for Americans to compete with English actors, remember colourless Andie McDowell in „Four weddings". E. R. may be talented, well, I doubt it. She shows just one facial expression, to distract from which fact she is flashing about her skinny white legs and freakishly pointy knees. She looks totally bland and forgettable, especially in that horribly obvious blond wig in the first half, in no way prettier than her English counterparts. And since when is being a Californian particularly exotic? But the story's pretty boy falls for her almost at once, oh yeah. She doesn't even have to play hard to get, au contraire. Actually not even a better actress, say a young Jennifer Aniston, could have saved this horrible story. There is the obligatory dressing up scene – Roberts's aunt had a legendary one in "Pretty Woman", but whereas erstwhile prostitute Julia/Vivien emerged as an elegant lady, Emma/Poppy goes from spoilt brat in super-high heels to pole dancer-prostitute look-and-act-alike. I shudder when I think of the age group this is aimed at. Awful, awful, awful!

Wild. A second attempt at a user review. My first got deleted by IMDb after someone posted a well thought out objection to it. If one has posted reviews here and found that some have been deleted by the appropriate admin, how does one react? That is what this second attempt is trying to consider. Most IMDb users will not have had their stuff appreciated in that sort of way so this is a minority interest sort of comment. If one bothers to write comments or reviews about the features that impress one then one's personal appreciation can grow. Of course there is a large range of individuals who browse such as IMDb user reviews so who knows what sort of wording one will need to use if one is to truly show one's growing understanding of a feature such as this? My solution was to use a spoiler label. I obviously need to improve on that. * My first attempt had gotten up to version 2.01. It tried to show my first reaction, amazed and impressed and needing to write a review that said so. It tried to include some of my understanding after a couple of weeks, this is one of those school stories where the star, Emma, and another are actually of the age that they are scripted at. Most others are student age, 18 to 22, but they fit in well, there is a natural look. I was also starting to tie in my reaction with links to Donnie Darko and Pretty Woman. It tried to include some of the insights into the story detail that I started to notice after a few months. As such, drafting the first version of the comment was a big help to me gaining a deeper personal understanding of the story. Wild. Poppy is scrambled and sunk, but still flying high. A 'popular girl' as in Heathers and Mean Girls. This feature explores that in its own sweet way and the true reality is not on the surface. Beneath the surface is a mess so putrid that there might be admin deletions if anyone dared to tried to seriously consider the relevance of this feature. I rate this as 10, which does not mean that I consider it to have a sweet smell. Poppy as a blooee elle. I have appropriate skills for getting sunk on this. Wild. Poppy being totally unable to face the real issues re her dad having a need for a new partner. There is a barrier and I have often come across such barriers, there is something about it that is a hidden part of our world? Wild. The relationships between the Malibu trio, Poppy and sister and best friend. It takes skill to find acceptable ways to comment? They are out of their depth and it shows. A big problem is that one is only likely to find out that there has been a successful complaint by one of your items being deleted. The reason why the deletion is not known. My only previous admin deletion was something that I tried to write another review for and that ended up by being deleted too. I currently assume that was some political factor. Example, if I write some dreamy appreciation about some dreamy actress such as 12 year old Abigail Breslin of Santa Clause 3 then I am likely to get low scores for the helpfulness of my comment. The Sarah Jane Adventures as an example, ditto Ballet Shoes, maybe HSM Concert. Wild. My paranoia can make me wonder if this deletion was political, too. If so the issue might be me writing, several times at IMDb and Amazon USA, that I consider DVD region codes to be a USA invention to allow warfare against consumers world wide, a visible component in the current world war III. My last dabble into that sort of thing was 2009, Amazon, concerning the disk sets for Emma Roberts' Unfabulous series. That must seem like paranoia to anyone but me? Not knowing the real reasons for the deletions does leave one in the dark.

Over the years there have been many films about a transplanted American in an English school. This time it is a teen aged spoiled girl sent to a posh English school.Emma Roberts, niece of Julia & daughter of Eric Roberts is an absolute delight, she eventually will be as talented as her Aunt & Father.We have the usual craziness & silliness that we find in all such comedies.Then of course all is redeemed usually by some sporting event, This time its Lacrosse.Nick Moore directed first time screenplay writer Lucy Dahl's serviceable script.Natasha Richardson in her final role is fine as the Headmistress & Alex Pettyfer is good as her teen-aged son. Aiden Quinn is perfect as Emma's father. The entire cast is young & refreshing.Rating is a proper PG-13, This is primarily a teen type filmwith some raunchy teen talk. It is all in good fun.Ratings: *** (out of 4) 81 points(out of 100) IMDb 7 out of 10)