This teen-centric rehash tries to be Gossip Girl meets Pretty Little Liars, but its not nearly fun enough
Sara Silva as Cece Carroway, Sarah Catherine Hook as Caroline Merteuil and Zac Burgess as Lucien Belmont had a lot of shortcomings , but one thing it did understand was the power of melodrama.
It’s all incredibly boring. Caroline is supposed to be two-faced – mean on the inside but irresistibly charming on the outside – yet Hook is leaden, so devoid of warmth that it’s impossible to believe Annie would fall for her pretence at sisterhood.Artless sidekick CeCe is still here but there is no longer a side seduction of her to further show off Lucien and Caroline’s manipulative skills.
Crucially, there is an awful lot of talk about the Greek system of sororities and fraternities, endless references to the pledging and rushing and the hazing scandal that puts the system in jeopardy, as if it were a matter of life and death. Instead of enjoyable mischief we have self-serious politicising. It’s impossible to care about.
reboot), this rehash is in thrall to the 1999 film, with overt homages: the sports car on the motorway, The Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” in the closing credits, and Sean Patrick Thomas plays CeCe’s lover in both versions.
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