So I just talked about a bad horror movie… that wasn’t the only bad movie I’ve watched lately. I was bored one night and browsing around Charter’s On Demand options, and up pops Campus Confidential.
The story is simple. New girl starts at a new high school. It’s super cliquey (worse than High School Musical) and everyone has their place. Even the hallways are divided, the popular “speedy” people have one half, and the rest of the school has to walk with their heads down on the other side. There are reserved tables in the lunchroom, and the football team has first dibs on the KFC for lunch on game days.
So, yeah, obviously she doesn’t fit in. She is somehow roped into the school newspaper (oh, btw, her mom is a big advocate journalist who is now writing for the lowly local paper – her article is about the new traffic light) and meets the Editor in Chief, and the camera boy.
One issue in, and they’re shut down by the principal, so that he can run a training room for the girls. (AKA a day-spa) Uh oh. So new girl (Violet, by the way) and Editor in Chief (Corn) decide to start their own tabloid, exposing the popular peeps for what they really are – fakes.
Issue 1 – the head of the Gay Boy Club is actually straight. BTW, he’s played by the INCREDIBLY hot Thomas Dekker. And then the second issue was rather bland, but we’re seeing Corn grasping this newfound power and going a little insane.
After issue 2, the principal (I always remember how to spell that because our principal is our “pal”) isn’t the pal of the girls, instead threatening to expel them if they publish another issue. In response, they put together and issue all about his noon “meetings” with the head of the PTA. They get their room back (bye bye day spa) and become school-sanctioned.
And here’s where Corn and Vi get into an argument, Vi quits, blah blah blah. The boy interest, Brandon (♥) gets into Violet, and then to get back at her, Corn publishes an issue about Brandon. According to the rumor mill, he goes through girls quicker than most people go through cereal boxes. But he’s really a good guy, and since Corn lovingly put Violet’s name on the issue… oops, bye bye relationship.
It all wraps up, with Vi trying to get across to Corn that she’s become as bad as the original popular people. We’re treated to more cliche stuff, but it’s all fun.
And of course, there is an overall theme too – they’re studying Animal Farm in English. Obvious much?
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So yeah, it’s a pretty bad movie. The worst part, in my opinion at least, was the actors. They’re all ugly. (Except Thomas, of course) They just don’t fit the roles. The popular peeps were ugly, really. Popular people are supposed to be pretty, right? And the boy interest – who is apparently an interest to other girls – is… well, kinda not all that hot. I dunno.
But yeah, the script was awkward, the actors were ugly (but decent enough acting) and it all really didn’t make much sense. It was overall bleh. So I’ll give it a whopping 5/10. Thomas saved it from being a 4.