Kellie's Review for Sixteen Candles

Sixteen Candles is a classic 80’s movie with big curly hair, white sneakers and off the shoulder shirts. The movie follows Samantha Baker (Molly Ringwald) on her sixteenth birthday and the day of her sister’s wedding. The movie takes place over two days where you go inside her school, he house and inside her crush’s, Jake Ryan’s, house. You are able to see her relationships with her family and friends and learn more about her as a person. By going to the party at Jake Ryan’s (Michael Schoeffling) house, you are able to see how he interacts with others and how he really feels for Samantha Baker. The main conflicts of the film may be typical to an average teens life. Sam is trying to get Jake to notice her while The Geek ( Anthony Michael Hall) tries to get Sam to notice him. The most heart wrenching part of the film is when Sam’s family completely forgets her sixteenth birthday because they are spending too much time focusing on her older sister’s wedding. 

I think this movie was very well made and accurately portrayed the thoughts and actions of a teenager. At some points, the movie was a little too corny and unrealistic, but I think that it was still true to the emotions of the teenagers. Obviously Jake and Sam ended up together at the end of the movie, but I think for this type of movie. there needed to be a predictable ending. The movie was just an enjoyable movie where you don’t have to sit and think about who might be the bad guy or how someone will get themselves out of a situation. This movie was purely funny and enjoyable and the actors did an amazing job. I think the actors did so well because they were teenagers in real life when they were filming so they really only had to act like themselves and let their teenage emotions take over. Out of all the characters, my favorite was Long Duk Dong who was played by Gedde Watanabe. His random outbursts and the way he handled himself at Jake’s party really helped make a movie about some sad events, become funny. This is an amazing movie for when you are having a bad day or you want to see a kid without his permit drive around in a Rolls Royce. Either way, you will love this movie for the truthfulness it portrays of teenagers all over.