silly but amusing...\r.thank you for the opportunity \r\r

My Best Friend’s Exorcism is a fun, campy, more light-hearted take on the novel on which it is based. 80s nostalgia is totally to the max. It captures the Stranger Things vibe, but adds in a bit more language to try to feel edgy, but doesn’t quite succeed. \rI loved the novel, and was hoping this would go all in on what the novel accomplished, but it, unfortunately, does not go to the darker places the novel went. The movie needed to lean more into the horrific parts of the novel to make it more suspenseful. Instead they chose to keep it too bright and fun-filled.

Good movie for teens.

Used too many caricatures & over-indulged tropes. While it was faithful to the 80s, there was a great deal of surface commitment & very little real devotion. Also, there were inaccuracies about Catholic high schools. At the high school level, boys & girls go to separate campuses; they're not co-ed. Plus the muscle guys presentation was not something that Catholics would have. The friendship of Abby & Gretchen was strong, but the betrayals were resolved far too easily. Good job by most of the cast with a limited script and wonderful to see our friend, Cynthia Evans, as Mrs. Lang.