Exactly How My Brain Worked At 14

I wasn't expecting much, but some reviewers compared this movie to Mermaids, so I gave it a shot. I loved it from the very first scene! Ansiedad is a weird kid, and exactly the same kind of crazy I was at 14. Our brains attack problems in the same twisted-yet-too-literal way.

That approach also got me into trouble, and nearly ruined a good friendship.

In a way, the movie was about problem solving. Much of what we learn about the characters involves how they approach their problems, ranging from Ansiedad's OCD overplanning to Mission's "aim at the first solution I see and push through it like a bulldozer". I found it funny and very immersive, though perhaps that's just because I identified so strongly with the protagonist.

My biggest complaint is I think they left Tavita's subplot on the cutting room floor. I know it would have involved some painful scenes, but she seemed too important a character to have her life-threatening crisis reduced to a couple of expository lines.