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Few events stick out in the minds of teenagers at the cinema more than the conclusion. Dreams come true, bullies are put in their place, girls say they're everything. Thankfully, real life is rarely this dramatic, but that doesn't mean studios (and streams) should stop making the next Pretty in Pink or 10 Things I Hate About You anytime soon. Disney presents Prom Pact, a new take on the big night where two platonic best friends who are more comfortable outside decide to enter high school life.
Mandy Young (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) appears for the first time in a Ruth Bader Ginsburg t-shirt, trying to avoid an official North Seattle High School graduation rally in hopes of drastically updating her Harvard application to go from "pending." ' to switch to 'accepted'. . Until then. He announced his balance theme: the 80s. "Real life begins after we get out of here and go to college," he tells his best friend, Ben Plunkett (Milo Mannheim), who is more interested in the traditional high school experience than he is. "What I hate more than slow dancing is the gender pay gap," he asked her to campaign for a goodwill demonstration.
That's not a bad thing; This formula is tried and true for a reason. Among the expected episodes here, cheating takes center stage again in Act III, where Mandy tries to befriend the most popular boy in school (Blake Draper) because his father was a Harvard graduate and was with him his entire life. It was a secret. The path of life depends on what is received. Directed by Anya Adams (veteran of TV shows like Black-ish, GLO and Yellow Jackets) and written by Anthony Lombardo (Modern Family), the sequel is cuter and smarter than most. friends of the same age
It has its own language, just like its predecessors – "Everest" is Mandy and Ben's high school student and also a big face in a hot supporting role. This includes Margaret Cho as Mandy's counselor and Wendy McClendon-Covey as her mother, most notably Cho as she professes to be confidants. But above all, the success of the film is due to Lee.
The star took Mandy from her t-shirt slogan ("Less Plastic, More Ocean") and made her into a three-dimensional creature with more depth than we'd expect from a character like this. She sees her friendship with Ben as more than an appreciative pleasure, and rolls her eyes at her classmates' "suggestions" from time to time, but the inevitable softer sides feel big and real.
Prom Pact premiered on Disney Channel on March 30 before airing on Disney+ the next day, which unfortunately didn't draw many viewers, which is a shame. This film exemplifies the genre, honoring its ancestors while acknowledging and correcting their more obvious flaws. (An earlier scene where the problematic aspects of "The Breakfast Club" and "Amazing Science" read more like romance than condemnation.) "Prom Pact" might not be a proper teen movie, but it definitely ranks in the top 10 .% of graduating class.
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