Tall Girl

About

Tall Girl is an American romantic drama comedy film directed by Nzingha Stewart and starring Ava Michelle.^[1] The film follows a teenage girl who stands at six feet one inch tall as she copes with her height insecurities. It was released on Netflix in September 2017 and gained mixed but mostly negative reviews.

History

On August 29th, 2019, Netflix released the Tall Girl Official Trailer (shown below). The trailer received over 2.8 million views an 64,000 likes in two weeks. On September 13th, 2019, the film was released to Netflix.

Reception

As of September 2019, Tall Girl has an approval rating of 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.^[1] AV Club's Siede gave it a C+ rating say, "From a one-note mean girl stereotype to a complete disinterest in how social media shapes the lives of teens, Sam Wolfson's lackluster script fails to bring anything new or timely to the teen rom-com table."

On September 16th, Savannah Walsh from Elle^[2] wrote:

"I've questioned my femininity. I've felt disheartened by the shrunken dating pool. I've deflected questions about my height since elementary school. (How one is ever supposed to respond to the observation, "You're really tall" is beyond me.) Challenges that come with being a tall woman are subtle, often internalized. That is, other than the battle to find jeans that reach past the ankle. It's not the fact of being tall that triggers insecurities, but in the way people can interact with your tallness.
I wish Netflix had delved into those subtleties, but the movie opts instead to incorporate tall tropes and unrealistic stakes. For instance, having Jodi's happily ever after involve a kiss on a milk carton, or her daily life include taunts of "How's the weather up there," feel silly and reductive."

Related Memes

On September 14th, 2019, following the movies release many people took to Twitter to criticize the movies concept. Twitter user @wizardgaz^[4] tweeted, "I'm watching Tall Girl and it's so ridiculous. She says "you don't know how hard it is to be me" and then goes home to her two parents in their multi-story house to eat a 3 course meal" (shown below, left). The tweet gained over 900 likes and 130 retweets in five days. That same day, Twitter user @SammyWong^[5] mentioned Peppa pig's height (shown below, right). The tweet garnered over 80 likes in five days.

Dunkleman, a character that has a crush on Jodi throughout the movie carries around a milk crate at school and finally gets to use it by standing on it to kidd Jodi at the end of the movie. Twitter users, for the most part found it corny and ridiculous. Other's found it sweet. Twitter user @ChloeServenti^[8] tweeted, "Guys… He carried a fucking milk crate around with him the whole movie just so when he finally got to kiss the girl of his dreams he would be tall enough for her 😭😭😭 (Tall Girl)" and received over 4,600 likes in five days (shown below, left). Twitter user @loIlizeth^[9] also commented on the scene (shown below, right) in a post that garnered over 600 likes in five days.

On September 15th, 2019, Many people began to comment on the fact that being six feet tall isn't even that tall and that it's a more subtle issue than the movie puts on. Twitter user @rrrjinn^[6] mentioned Dutch people's height in comparison (shown below, left) and @liciajmtz^[7]tweeted "this Tall girl movie makes no sense like ?? Ur six feet just fight them" (shown below, right).

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