This MGM/Amazon Original tries to make a full-on British teen rom-com version of Sex Education with very underwhelming results. Here, Archie has been in love with his best friend Milly for years but cannot tell her, and in their final term at private school finds a rival for her affections in newly-arrived handsome stereotype American student Billy. The tired tropes are relentless, from Archie's fourth-wall breaking to the camp gay kid to childish on-screen graphics and its unlikeable protagonist, all leading to the usual improbable end-of-year prom. Unlike their Elite counterparts, for example, these characters do not seem to inhabit their privilege and merely come across as smug and irritating. The sweary script occasionally raises a smile, and whilst the film might appeal to its very young and undiscerning female teen audience, this is a very silly and annoying film to sit through otherwise.
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