College Pop Culture

My movie choices this summer have been limited to those tagged “dramas with a strong female lead” on Netflix. Today I decided to branch out and see the new comedy The To Do List starring Aubrey Plaza.

 

The To Do List follows the adventures of goody-goody Brandy Klark (Aubrey Plaza) who has spent her high school career in preparations of becoming the valedictorian. When her friends kidnap her and force her to go to her first high school kegger and she drunkenly makes out with the hottest college guy at the party, Rusty Waters (Scott Porter), she decides that she needs to get more experience in the sexuality department. She makes a to-do list of all of the sexual things she wants to accomplish in the summer before college in order to be prepared for the “sexual pop quiz” that is freshman year.

 

This entire movie I praised every higher power that I wasn’t there with my parents. Don’t get me wrong, my family’s favorite movie is Bridesmaids, but this movie was pretty uncomfortable. That’s what made it hilarious and why my friend and I couldn’t stop giggling the entire time. Everything Brandy did was so awkward that I cringed every time she went to cross another activity off her list. Don’t even get me started on her movie theater venture in which she went to the bathroom to slather butter all over her hands. Oh my God so uncomfortable.

 

I enjoyed Bill Hader’s character probably the most, as the burnout manager at the local pool who didn’t know how to swim. And Andy Samberg made an appearance which makes me beyond happy. There were a few funny one-liners in the movie, but the only things that were laugh-out-loud funny were the awkward fumblings of Brandy Klark. And all of the hilarious 90’s references. I’m ashamed to say that some of the ugly trends of that decade have seeped into this season’s fashion.  

 

I recommend getting it on Redbox when it comes out and watching it with your friends. Unless you need some confirmation that your life can not in a million years be as awkward as Brandy Klark’s.