On September 13, 2019, Netflix released a new romantic comedy, in partner with McG of Wonderland Sound and Vision, called “Tall Girl’’ starring Dance Moms star Ava Michelle and Sabrina Carpenter from Disney’s “Girl Meets World.”

The story takes place in modern-day New Orleans and follows Jodi Kreyman, a 16 year-old girl who is also 6’1.5” tall. Jodi’s significantly taller height is the whole basis of the movie. 

The opening scene of the movie foreshadows what the film’s plot. Throughout the school day, Jodi is bullied and constantly teased by her peers for being tall. “Giraffe,” “Skyscraper” and “How’s the weather up there?” are just a few of the insanely cliche insults that, to be honest, I cannot believe they used in the movie. It just too predictable, much like the rest of the movie.

 It is your classic overdone girl meets boy, girl and boy do not work out, girl realizes the nerdy boy that was swooning for her was the right choice all along. I am positive that if a boy-crazy seventh grade girl was tasked with writing this script, she could come up with a significantly more interesting plot. 

In my opinion, this movie is aimed towards a younger audience. But, it is set around a high school junior, so a high school senior like myself should be able to connect to it, which did not happen. 

However, when watching the movie, I did find myself laughing quite a bit. Not at the jokes or other comedic attempts, but at the numerous unbelievably “cringy” scenes throughout the whole film. 

Another issue I have with the film, along with many people on Twitter and the rest of the Internet, is that being tall as a girl does not bring about constant bullying in most cases. From personal experience of being a 5’10” high school girl and hearing the online testimonies of girls that are much taller than me, there is not a widespread problem of bullying toward tall girls. There is a high chance that people will acknowledge that you are tall and make general comments towards that, but there is a low chance of a girl being degraded for her height. 

In fact, most people admire the tall girls. I have heard many times from shorter girls that they wish they were taller or as tall as me. Tall girls have an advantage at volleyball, basketball and most other sports. Being tall as a girl is not something that a movie should have been made about. There are plenty of other uncontrollable qualities that girls get attacked and feel insecure about that could have been used in the movie. As a film “Tall Girl” fails to represent the reality of a population and the budget would have been better used to showcase the struggles of an actual oppressed group of people.