1. Its not just that they spoke English mostly all the time in France, if you read what the OP wrote, its that they spoke almost perfect English. The red headed douche that went after Belle and got her to get into the car, had an accent when he kept calling her "Miss America" but other than that, most of the other people, save for the tutor, spoke basically good American English which is not the case in France in real life.
2. The part where Belle lost her virginity was unnecessary. Sure the tutor turned out to be a jerk who didn't care for her the way she thought he did, but she should have seen this coming. He showed no previous interest in her and she was just a dumb naïve 17 year old. She didn't have to lose her virginity though. First, off in this generation I'm surprised this movie had a character that was still a virgin especially one with that mouth when she swore @ the jerks in the park for trying to ______ her. Second, she talked of waiting for the perfect guy in the perfect situation on her terms and then just gives it away just like that against some door in a study room like a cheap slut? Disappointing but telling of this moral less generation. Simply making out with him would have proven the same point.
3. Didn't the 22 year old tutor commit statutory rape on the 17 year old Belle in the study room that we are just supposed to forget about apparently?
4. Are we to assume just because this is a family of a former mob corner boss, they all know how to kick ass? Who taught Warren how to shoot those guns all "Kick-Ass" ish through the gate @ the end of the movie with accuracy against the mobsters? Who taught him how to survey all they new students and find their weaknesses/how they could help him---Viagra, trading cards, etc. in real life as a new student they would have not only shunned him but they would not have spoke English well enough nor trusted a foreigner enough to do those kind of deals with him to get protection that he was after. They'd have all said 'stupid Yank' etc.
5. Maddie would have got blamed/caught for the grocery store incident since she was the last person seen going in or coming out of it. I'm sure they had cameras but we are just supposed to overlook that fact because 'its a moveie'?
6. Plot hole, Warren created fake I.D's and was bound for Paris because of something he did @ the school that made it so 'he couldn't go back' but we not only never find out what that was, but he's seen reunited with Belle somehow for the finale @ the house when it was known the family could not have cell phones so how did she contact him to return to the house?
5. Where did Belle get the cell phone that she used to call her love interest from the roof-top ledge only to abandon those plans when she somehow saw the gangsters getting out of their cars and organizing their attack below her? How was she able to see them? Eagle-eye?
7. Santa Ana, CA's Pfeiffer's all-too-obvious fake/forced NY accent made it harder to take her character seriously.
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Kandy_Canada
11 years ago
I agree with most of your points except for 6 & 5 (but should be 7)
Warren was waiting for the train when the very same mobsters who were at his house in the states at a family BBQ, disembarked. It was proven in an earlier part of the movie that he recollected his time there, even though he was young, because he submitted that anecdote to the school paper. He immediately ran for the phone to call his family and tell them the mobsters were on the way. no one picked up. He went back. Not a plot hole.
Belle took the phone from the pink hair banded classmate. After asking nicely, the girl said 'you don't share phones', and then Belle hit her with it and took it.
~The sun doesn't give light to the moon assuming the moon's gonna owe it one~
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swingers70
11 years ago
good catch on the cell phone. I had not thought of that, but again, in real life, anyone who gets their phone stolen from them would have called the provider immediately and had in turned off/canceled.
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swingers70
11 years ago
good catch on the cell phone. I had not thought of that, but again, in real life, anyone who gets their phone stolen from them would have called the provider immediately and had in turned off/canceled.
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