“Easy A” – Miss Scarlet, in the bedroom, with the Blackberry

Dir. Will Gluck
(2010, PG-13, 92 min)
★ ★ ★ ½

I grew up on a pop-cultural diet of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Clueless, and Felicity, among others. Those were my touchstones when I was entering adolescence. Kids these days have different touchstones: Gossip Girl, Skins, Jersey Shore, 16 and Pregnant. On the ABC Family network, a very good show about college, Greek, floundered in the ratings while more scandalous young’uns whoop it up on Pretty Little Liars to quadruple the audience. Young viewers these days, when they’re not choosing between Team Broody-Sparkle and Team Shirtless-Bowflex, are less interested in seeing themselves on screen than they are in vicariously living out their Charlie Sheen meltdowns before they’re old enough to vote.