The Clique

Today, I watch a movie that I borrowed from my friend. Actually, I am proposing to buy the film. But, he said that the film is really "crunchy", mean boring. Okay, that's his opinion. Is another opinion. I think this film is ah-mazing. Hmm... perhaps a bit exaggerated if I say ah-mazing. But, like that.

Theme of friendship. I really love it with anything that smells of friendship.

Anyway, you should watch the movie. Following review of the film.

The film mainly follows the first novel in this series by Lisi Harrison. The books lead the viewer through the middle school lives of five girls: Massie Block, Dylan Marvil, Kristen Gregory, Alicia Rivera, and Claire Lyons. The girls, besides Claire, belong to the most popular group at their private school Octavian Country Day (OCD) called the Pretty Committee.

Claire moved from Orlando, Florida into Massie’s guest house and is not accepted into the exclusive club. On her first day, she bumps into Chris Abeley, who is Massie’s crush, and talks with Chris which makes Massie jealous and Massie begins to dislike Claire more, and Alicia pranks Claire by putting red paint on her pants making the art teacher and nurse think she got her period.

Claire’s first friend is who she meets at lunch, Layne Abeley, a unique girl who doesn’t care what anybody thinks, has a very strange sense of style, food obsessions, and is later found out to be the sister of Chris Abeley. Claire goes to drastic measures to get on The Pretty Committee’s good side, even hacking into Massie’s computer and telling Massie’s friends misleading information. This causes Massie’s friends to turn against her, until Claire’s misdeeds are found out, and Massie is restored as the Pretty Committee’s leader.

The cynical Massie, however, will not just forgive and forget. She continues to behave especially rudely to Claire, as punishment for depriving her of her friends for a few days, and even throws an egg at her, much to the Pretty Committee’s vindictive delight. Throughout the film, it is well known that Massie has a crush on Chris, whom she met because he rode his horse on a private trail she happened to be on as well.

The movie closes at an auction held at Massie’s house to raise money for scholarships for the school. As the day of the auction is Chris’ birthday, Massie plans to jump out of a cake, and surprise him, but Claire finds out about Massie’s idea, and that Chris has a girlfriend. Claire’s kinder side takes charge; she prevents Massie from jumping out of the cake before any incident and saving Massie from public embarrassment. The last scene shows Massie writing her state of the union blog. She puts Claire in the “Out” like she did in the beginning of the film but also puts her in the “In”. which implies that Claire has hope of getting into the Pretty Committee.