The plot about being true to yourself is still relevant, but Stargirl addresses it at a surface level, without ever really going beyond the main character’s mildly quirky aesthetic. But because the movie is a 2000s story set 20 years later, the story feels superficial and outdated. If they’d set the movie in 2000 - like Hulu’s 2019 Looking for Alaska, which takes place in 2005, when the John Green novel it adapts was published - most of the disconnect would make sense. Director Julia Hart and screenwriters Kristin Hahn and Jordan Horowitz seem to recognize that aspects of teen life in the early 2000s don’t hold up in 2020, and they try to reconcile the 20-year difference. Like all stories, high-school dramas might tackle similar universal themes, but they can still suffer when they’re bogged down by the specificities of a time gone by.īased on the 2000 Jerry Spinelli novel of the same name, the newest Disney Plus original movie Stargirl suffers from trying to make its outdated plot relevant in 2020. Ask someone who graduated in 2009 about how they used social media, and you’ll get a very different answer than what a 2019 graduate would say. But while some social challenges never change, the details of how they manifest across teen culture evolve. Being a teenager is tough, no matter when you start attending high school.
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