When I walked into the theater to watch “Easy A” September 2010, I expected to find another dramatized high school film about sexual frustration, drugs and alcohol, and teenage angst. I didn’t.

I was so prepared to criticize that I was blown away when I couldn’t find too much wrong with this movie.

The film is about a teenager gaining a blasphemous reputation for lying about having sex with an imaginary boy she made up to substitute her lack of an entertaining life. Even with the movie’s serious topic, it was clever, witty, and made the main character Olive very likable and human.

Emma Stone beautifully portrayed a troubled high school girl dealing with pressure, while Amanda Bynes played a zealous Christian. Former “Friends” star Lisa Kudrow was involved in a plot twist that was as smart as it was scandalous.

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and can easily see it becoming as classic and respected a movie about high school as “The Breakfast Club” or “Ferris Beuller’s Day Off.”

It was, however, different to other teenage movies. It paralleled The Scarlet Letter in its theme, and for once it showed the perils of sex instead of glorifying it. It even goes as far as to reference the letter “A” on the wardrobe of the indecent.

It also stayed in touch with the fact that the majority of the teenage population is technology obsessed; with the latest phones information can spread easily without much effort.

It did, however, relentlessly mock Christianity and its followers. Its eccentric and obsessive characters gave a false view of how most devoted theists act. It bordered on offensive, religious or not.

When I walked out of the movie theater, I was pleasantly surprised. I was thoroughly satisfied with this movie and suggest it to anyone interested in smart high school films.

Rating: 4.5/5