Split into 4 parts.
It's really easy to look back and laugh. And I did. This PIF is really, really funny, for all the wrong reasons. It can't have seemed so phoney then as it does now.
I would have thought that 'the youth' of the day might have taken this movie a little more seriously than I would have if I had seen it when I was 14, listening to ones elders wuld have been a more respected value back in the day.. but the bad lip synching would have made me chuckle regardless, I'm sure.
Essentially this PIF is all about going through puberty, and not acting like a child any more. And one thing has remained constant it seems... that adolescents really don't want to be treated like children, so I'm sure this film would have been successful in getting across its message in that respect. I find it odd though that it would have been deemed neccessary to literally tell young people to grow up, instead of letting it happen naturally. Maybe the same happens with todays programming on television, just in a more covert way.
The story here is particularly poor. I can't see this ever happening. The kid is going to voluntarily rate the age of his attitude? Didn't take much persuading, did he? And no backchat to the smarmy janitor? My times have changed.
I keep seeing more and more constants with each of these films. None of them apart from the one about gossip are from a female perspective. And even the 'Gossip' PIF had a male voiceover.
