That rarest of creatures, a good teen comedy

Just finished watching Easy A (which is great by the way) and it struck me just how rare good teen comedies have been for the past few years. There certainly haven't been any shortage of them around, but they all seem to follow the American Pie without ever managing to be as good as Pie was (we'll ignore American Pie's 2 and 3)

Easy A on the other hand has a smart lead character (played brilliantly by Emma Stone) who makes wrong choices that are in keeping with her character rather than just to shoe-horn in another weird prat-fall scene. It has a script that is both wickedly funny and smart, and a soundtrack that hits all the right buttons. It even has a montage to John Hughes part-way through.

If all that hasn't convinced you, it even has Stanley Tucci in it. Go, go now!