LadyBird

Ladybird is Oscar bait to the Max. This movie was not boring, but it had very little redeeming aspects to it outside of the acting. Ladybird takes the fairly simple concept of a coming of age story, updates it slightly to fit 2018, and then pressed play on a story we have all seen before.

Ladybird is the story of a girl in Catholic school who is in the full swing of teenage rebellion. She rejects everything from her family, including her name, and she is off to set herself apart from the crowd and be different. Ladybird gets in trouble, she goes to parties, falls in love, gets hurt, and relies on her friends to get her through the final year of high school.

To start on a positive note, the acting in this film is incredible. You lose the actors in this role and they immediately suck you into this world like they have been having these fights their whole lives. This kind of movie is especially tricky because the Teenage rage and parental tension needs to feel real for it to work.

Outside of the acting though, I thought this story was cookie cutter, and a little boring. There was not a lot of excitement, not a lot of character development (until the last 5 min) and at the end of the film I didn’t like Ladybird, Her forgettable best friend, or her Mom. I would wish ill on her for how disrespectful she was, but she just got nominated for an Oscar for telling this story. Having likable characters in a character based story makes or breaks a movie like this, and it broke Ladybird for me.

This film was nominated for a couple Oscars, but did not win any. Sometimes a movie’s story of getting made is better than the actual movie, this is true for Ladybird.

Buff Brothers Rank: 2.5 out of 5