![]() Which is fine, because CoaTDQ plays to the memories of those who have been burned by the white-hot presence of a Drama Queen, and provides a new fantasy to fuel the fevered “What if?” sleepless nights as we sit with the phone and decide whether or not to make the phone call that will throw us back into the masochistic yet aesthetically pleasing cycle once more. On the big screen it’s all scrubbed and sanitized to be sure nothing like the fashion model heroin addicts of Liquid Sky or the predatory Amy of The Doom Generation. Lola is an example of the purest form of Drama Queen: the innocent self-motivated vixen who is more interested in pursuing her passions than using her gifts to toy and punish the men of the world. They are girls you’ll generally never forget, because they’re so rare and unlike anyone else you’ll ever meet that you can’t help but think of them at sunset time and wonder “Why? Why?” Or they might be faking it all, intoxicating you so with their image of a beautiful fringe siren that by the time your head gets dashed on the rocks of reality you’re too far gone to notice it was all a sham. They have the best taste in music, they draw better than you, and have a unique style that they leave like a personal stamp on everything they do, from scrapbooking to local ‘zine work. They draw on their shoes and yours, cobble incredible fashion creations out of thrift store junk and discarded fabrics, and are inherently visually gifted. Once you get sucked into their orbit, they will infect your life with their needs and desires and usually help change you, sometimes for the better, sometimes not. They are relentlessly creative, flamboyant, and charming. Not important, though.ĭrama Queens are not necessarily into drama as in theater and the accepted arts. There are probably Drama Kings in the world, but I don’t really care and if I had to guess I’d say they get sucked into the Goth-coffeehouse-philosopher and/or homosexual scene. However… there are those of us who have known a Drama Queen, either in our teenage years or whenever. If you dislike Lohan or the stupider teen fun films, stick with John Hughes or the better WB and UPN high school weekly dramas. It is all just fluff, though a film version of a disposable bubble gum song-of-the-moment. Lohan holds everything together with enthusiastic charm and airbrushed delights, while Pill is anything but bitter as a neurotic but ultimately reliable and honest friend. Certainly it’s all nothing new, just teenage pomp and circumstance, poured through a Disney filter to remove the profanity and sex we all remember front and center from our high school years yet doesn’t seem to exist in the universe of fluffy teen films.ĬoaTDQ is nowhere near the story quality of Mean Girls or the entertaining zaniness of Freaky Friday, so don’t expect too much on those fronts. There is a teenage nemesis for Lola and some parental oppression for Ella, but working together there is little they can’t accomplish. Everything revolves largely around Lola’s propensity to exaggerate her past in a theatrical way and Lola and Ella’s shared reverence for the band Sidarthur and their shared turmoil when the band announces that it is breaking. Stuff happens, including musical interludes, South Park-esque flashbacks made from glittery construction paper and floating photorealistic figures, and improbable costume changes for Lohan’s Lola. ![]() The deceleration of Lola’s life from 24-hour sensory bombardment to suburban tedium has her considering joining a suicide club at first, but then she makes quick friends in beautifully plain jane Ella (Alison Pill) and plain beautiful (I guess) Sam (Eli Marienthal) and gets a chance to show her inner dramatic persona in the school play. ![]() ![]() It focuses on the trials and tribulations of Mary Elizabeth Cep (as played by Lindsay Lohan, and won’t you please call her Lola?) as she leaves her personal center of the world (New York City) for a run-of-the-mill New Jersey suburb. Kyle’s review: To those who have never been or had any kind of relationship with a “Drama Queen,” Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen will be unbelievable, tedious, and devoid of substance. Kyle’s rating: Lindsay Lohan’s Lola: Drama Incarnate! “I lied because I wanted to make myself seem more interesting.” ![]()
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