Cringy but also entertaining. I feel like a lot of the main characters were miscast. If you read this adapted YA series, then you know (such as Alicia and Dylan). The film plays out like a low budget film meant for TV and feels campy, but also satirizing school cliques and social dynamics of an all-girls private prep school. It's definitely a guilty pleasure of mine to watch because a lot of the acting is amateurish, but I think the actresses portraying Claire Lyons and Massie Block do slowly disappear in their roles (a good thing) the more the film progresses. Basically, the more the film edges toward its conclusion it increases in quality. And I can only imagine what a sequel film would've looked like with the same cast and the improvements that could've been executed plot-wise, wasted potential honestly or maybe the production team had no budget for more sequels of the novels.
Review of The Clique
The Clique
(2008 Video)
While amateurish at first, the film does improve the further the runtime progresses
15 December 2023