First Period (2013)

First Period: Directed by Charlie Vaughn. With Brandon Alexander III, Dudley Beene, Lauren Rose Lewis, Michael Turchin. An uproarious cross-dressing comedy, First Period follows a new girl and an outcast as the most awkward girls in high school. Together, they set out to take over the annual talent contest and win over the whole school.

“It is like, so totally the 80s. This is not your typical formula teen mean-girl movie, although after a while it does seem remarkably normal. Most of the leading actors do a really good job, and the two guys playing the female leads are among the best. At no time do they convince us that they are female, but that doesnu0026#39;t seem necessary. It does require imagination.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eCassandra Peterson, best known as Elvira, is so unbelievably nice and quite pretty as Cassieu0026#39;s mom. Mostly nice, anyway.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBy the end of the movie, we have heard positive messages that give this movie some significance beyond being just silly, and we learn a lot about what made certain characters the way they are.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAt first I was going to say that college students who need a safe place because they are easily offended should stay far away from this movie. But the Sue Sylvester level of cruelty doesnu0026#39;t last that long, and as I said before, later in the movie itu0026#39;s just the ordinary mean girl stuff. And most of the characters have the right attitude, at least by that time. Early in the movie, the combination of unbelievable confidence in the absence of a reason and unthinkable nastiness gives us hilarious results. The movie canu0026#39;t keep up that level of hilarity and itu0026#39;s just not funny at times later, but doesnu0026#39;t have to be. The seriousness is appropriate and needs to be.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOverall, itu0026#39;s wildly insane and certainly worth seeing.”