Sierra Burgess Is A Loser and So Is The Movie Review

SIERRA BURGESS IS A LOSER AND SO IS THE MOVIE.
After the success of To all the Boys I’ve Loved Before, one would assume that the next Netflix-produced
film would be just as good but unfortunately, it wasn’t.
The story starts off with introducing the main character Sierra who is a smart unpopular girl (Surprise!
Surprise!) aspiring to get into Stanford University but is shot down by her guidance counselor that says
Sierra is boring and needs to showcase something “special” about herself to be considered admittance
to the university. On the same day a cheerleader named Veronica meets Jamey, a football player from
another school (Surprise! Surprise!) who asks for her number. (SHOCKER!) Decidedly uninterested in the
boy, Veronica gives him Sierra’s number. That evening, Jamey sends Sierra a text message which kick
starts the rest of the plot as Sierra becomes a catfish, knowingly pretending to be Veronica and making
Jamey fall in love with her “words” whilst hiding behind Veronica’s face. Eventually, Veronica and Sierra
become friends after Sierra offered to tutor Veronica so she could get back together with her college ex-
boyfriend Spence at the cost of Veronica becoming Sierra’s face and helping her ‘get’ Jamey. In the end,
even after catfishing Jamey, which is illegal by the way, and embarrassing him at the big football game,
Sierra and Jamey STILL still end up together go to homecoming as a couple and Veronica and Sierra
become BFFS. FUN! The movie ends by leaving you to question whether someone is as mean as they
seem to be or if their attitude is just a front and it also asks you how deep beauty is for you.
A geeky, unpopular girl becoming friends with the problematic popular cheerleader and falling for the
“hot” quarterback sounds like a great story until you realize that you’ve heard all of this before.
Practically every theme presented in the film had already been used in other movies. The plot was
basically an amalgamation of worn-out tropes like mistaken identity, the nerdy unpopular character
being bullied, mean girl becoming friends with the nerd, jock falls in love with someone who isn’t a
cheerleader (gasp!) and a lot of other tropes. All in all, it was a mess.
Without a doubt the movie’s saving grace was the fact that its actors were good at their jobs and
delivered a spot-on performance that was on brief with what the movie asked for, which wasn’t a
problem until you got to Shannon Purser’s character, the frontrunner of the movie. Every other
character in the movie was likeable except the titular lead, Sierra, unfortunately. For one, Sierra could
have been so much more if she was presented as more than the stereotypical unpopular nerd. The
movie really tried to drill the ‘loser’ part of Sierra by casting a ‘fat’ actress and giving her character body
insecurities, putting her in the marching band and giving her one friend through most of the film to
make sure that the audience knew that she was, in fact, a loser. As someone who has been considered a
loser by her peers, I felt very attacked by how Sierra was presented. I understand that the movie was
trying to tell us that everyone is beautiful and charming in their own way but I wished that they didn’t
give Sierra every single character trait ever given to an un-liked person in high school. It would have
made a lot more sense if they had given her a positive trait that broke the stereotypical face of a nerd.
What I would like to touch on as positives in the movie is the fact that they showcased two girls living
completely different lives and being raised with different views on life and these girls were pitted against
each other by the social structure. With the feminism movement on the rise and the campaign to stop
pitting women against other women being extremely popular, Sierra Burgess’ friendship with Veronica
was a refreshing and beautiful story that really made my heart flutter with delight. Their friendship may
have started because of a guy but it definitely did not prosper because of their interest in men, which is
another positive as it breaks the stereotype of women only coming together because of their similar
interest in the D. The dude.
If I were a fangirl of very cliché movie tropes that doesn’t need much to squeal from kilig feels, I feel like
I would love this movie. For all its faults, it was a good enough movie for me to watch on a boring rainy
day. On a scale of Avatar: The Last Airbender- Toy Story 3, I rate this movie to be on the level of the 2011
science fiction movie Super 8 for its okay storytelling and okay character development for its lead. So,
for you normies out there, this movie is a 6/10.

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