Jane Graham in a Film Guardian article poses the question:
'Are teenage girls too hot to handle?
There are lots of hilarious British films about teenage boys. But unlike the US, we don't do girl-centred comedy. Why?'
The box-office success of The Inbetweeners Movie
may have taken the film industry by surprise, but for many of its
audience it was a no-brainer. A funny, frank film about adolescence that
got everything right – the phoney, peer-pleasing, "street" jargon; the
perpetually nagging fear of inadequacy, perked up by flashes of hope and
well-oiled fantasy; the humiliations ladled out by bodies commanded by
the whiff of sex. Why wouldn't film-lovers flock to see such a formative
part of their lives recreated so authentically, to spend a couple of
happy hours revelling in "thank God it's not just me" camaraderie (for
youngsters) or "thank God it's over" nostalgia (for older ones)?
Well,
one reason might be that they are female. Many saw our male
counterparts weep with laughter and recognition at The Inbetweeners, and
thought: "I must dig out some DVDs that bring back memories of my
hilariously embarrassing, hormone-addled schooldays." A browse of the
video cabinet and LoveFilm.com brought it home; there aren't any British
films meeting that need.
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