TALL GIRL 2 is OUR Fault | Explained

[@michelleboon7646]

I really hate the teen sequel trope of introducing a competing love interest. Like teenage girls can't have character arcs outside of getting a boyfriend.

[@benzaiten933]

same! it's 2022 so you'd think we moved on from those old notions of a woman only being all about love.

[@samynaxaidan]

And the second movie love interest is always the diverse one, or as Kennie JD puts it "spicy white".

[@PassTheMarmalade1957]

Hey, that's not true! They can also have character arcs about getting into university....and then being conflicted about going because they don't want to leave their boyfriend.

[@mirrorball0908]

Preach queen

[@taylermiller5736]

@@samynaxaidan I just got done watching her video, man I love her 😂

[@nitrocharge2404]

The movie would've been better if she grew exponentially taller as time went on

[@gammawolf3]

Jodie the big, red dog

[@trinaq]

Agreed, I can't wait for "Even Taller Girl", another movie that nobody asked for!

[@ratstanduser]

Im waiting for a 3rd movie where she’s like 8ft tall.

[@jacobd1984]

How many sequels until she’s tall enough to battle Godzilla?

[@merrittanimation7721]

Attack of the Giant Woman: the remake

[@trinaq]

Wow, I feel so sorry for the "Tall Girl." She's attractive, intelligent, has great friends, several guys interested in her, and comes from a wealthy, loving family... Yet she's over 6 feet tall! Oh, the humanity! 🙄

[@mallman23]

Based

[@Xehanort10]

The whole film was just an excuse for the actress to complain about being kicked off Dance Moms even though considering that the young girls on there got exploited she should have been happy about it.

[@truebornseeker9767]

AND THATS EVEN A PLUS FOR SOME PEOPLE!

[@jacobd1984]

I know, some people just can’t catch a break! Truly heart-wrenching.

[@PhoenixRising87]

Like IRL she wouldn't have some cute tiny lesbian who was eager to sweep her off her feet.

[@ch33les99]

Honestly what should outrage us more is the fact that they could’ve called it Taller Girl and just…didn’t.

[@shay2107]

I thought the same thing.

[@Lynxnd]

Omg 🤣

[@CursedCatTruffa]

They lost a gold chance

[@alisaurus4224]

2 Girl 2 Tall

[@awsomedude23456]

That’ll be the third movie, where a new girl who’s even taller will come and everyone will love her instantly, and make Jodi realise that being tall is all she ever had

[@InfernoYeet]

You think your life is hard? Imagine living in the timeline where tall girl got a sequel

[@ASingleSpaghetti]

Yeah. Thank god THAT was just a weird dream we all collectively had, right?

[@Deadshotya]

I'm clearly stuck in the darkest timeline 😔

[@fkyfky0208]

That exactly everyf**kingone's life right now

[@Sun.Shine-]

This is actually in a branched out timeline! Not the sacred timetime 🙌

[@BassicallyKiyash]

@@ASingleSpaghetti yes

[@Sibunamember101]

Y'all Girl is about a story of a young girl in an extremely conservative town in the south (I'm seeing Texas, somewhere with wheat fields) and her struggle in realizing she's a lesbian. A new student enters her class and it's a girl from the city and she immediately has a crush. Awkward, the protag's first word to the girl is 'yall'. Then it's a montage of them falling in love and with an Oscars winning shot of them lying in the wheat fields together.

[@privatehere3324]

Dammit Netflix hire this person!!!

[@vikiwalters8767]

Still better than almost every Netflix teen movie to date

[@auroramichael1110]

Can we change it from wheat to corn? There are corn fields in the semi rural areas outside Houston, but I never saw wheat fields.

[@hanfleur]

omg I can picture this new girl just calling the protagonist as "Yall girl" and it kinda became their little inside joke thing.

[@shaliekk]

Hell👏🏻YEAH!👏🏻

[@AmandaTheJedi]

You know what, at least we didn't hear a damn thing about her size 13 Nike's and they made an effort

[@trinaq]

That's true, that monologue was SO Cringy, since it implies that Jodi has it SO much worse just because she's tall!

[@adhirg]

I wear size 13 nike’s I’ve always wanted a girlfriend I could share clothes and accessories with! Tall Girl is my dream.

[@gremlinprincess]

MEN'S size 13 Nike's.

[@BabyGirlTiny]

How you like dunkleman makes no sense and no, he was not to good for Jodie, he was a weirdo and a creep

[@wildwesley9328]

@@adhirg I don’t know your style but I also wear size 13 sneakers (I only ever wore Nike volleyball shoes)

[@trinaq]

They really missed a precious golden opportunity to call the sequel "Taller Girl" or "Short Boy", or even "Tall Girl 2: Electric Boogaloo!"

[@Gchildwarrior]

I like Electric Boogaloo better

[@ch33les99]

Damn you beat me to it

[@Celesian]

🤣 almost spit out my water reading this comment

[@jonasquinn7977]

Tall Girl: 2 Tall

[@Gchildwarrior]

Oooo, they could have gone the Sharknado route and let us decide the tagline. Tall Girl 3: Oh Hell No!

[@saininj]

The worst part is this is actually an improvement over the first one. Not like that's much of a complement.

[@donnamitsuki281]

It's that kind of movie where the only place to go to is up cause of you want to go down you *really* must try to make it even worse

[@lalitthapa101]

I agree to that too😂 This one was a better timepass but its not saying much🤣

[@TheDawnofVanlife]

I agree, I think they figured out they mistepped trying to convince us Jodie's life was the worse by dressing her frumpy and emphasizing she was a bit taller then normal sort of. By making her a victim of her own internal monologue of not being good enough in Tall Girl 2 I actually think they came up with a more relatable story in comparison to the first. Still not 'good' but fine for what it is.

[@Wagelbagel203]

Fasle lies

[@ravenmischief9876]

The third movie is probably Jodi saying "Oh no which university should I choose? Berkeley or Harvard?" But the university accepts her to easily because she wrote about "tell me about yourself" in her acceptance letter *Netflix logic.

[@Gchildwarrior]

It would be a refreshing surprise to see her get rejected by both and she picks community college

[@gabrielantunez7642]

Harvard accepts her to fill the height quota

[@NJGuy1973]

If Netflix makes a movie where Elle from Kissing Booth meets Jodi, I'm taking a hostage.

[@edgarallenhoe3518]

@Daisy Mae it's (slightly) more complicated than that, it's more about how effectively you can write about your personal experiences

[@draum8103]

@@Gchildwarrior Or Harvard and Berkeley reject her for being too tall, because they already have too many tall students they admitted on Tall scholarships. Then she becomes a lawyer and sues both universities for height discrimination, wins the case, then uses the money to go on a crazy month long party bender in Ibiza with all of her friends. Maybe all her friends also wear stilts/learn to walk in 12 inch high heels so they can be as tall as her.

[@estherandreasen366]

How short is everyone at the school? Are there no guys that are close to her height? I find it kinda funny that they make it such a big deal without addressing the real tall girl problem: finding pants.

[@IshtarNike]

As a tall guy this has always been my problem too. They’re either too short or long enough but waist is massive. Some people are tall AND slim.

[@ApequH]

Oh yes! Now that would be a problem!

[@sarahtaylor4264]

My brother is average height, but very skinny. Men's pants seem to start at a 29 waist. He is a 28 waist. Belts are his best friends.

[@estherandreasen366]

@@sarahtaylor4264 you see, I am average male height. I really feel the pain. I had a roommate who is 6 ft even and very skinny. Her opening line when she met someone tall was "so... where'd you get your pants?"

[@Emphoise]

MOOD I'm only 5"8 and it's already hard enough I can't even imagine...

[@legsorcist]

i think my biggest issue with these movies is that i've always found short guy's actions really uncomfortable and disrespectful towards jodie. he starts off the first movie constantly trying to make her feel bad for not wanting to be in a relationship with him and apparently has been for years and i can't get over him being rewarded for that at the end. it's literally ignoring her own autonomy because he's decided they were meant to be together

[@mitchellgeorge6031]

Yeah we shouldn’t be encouraging those people.

[@GreekDudeYiannis]

I was just talking about this with my girlfriend: "Short King" in the first movie was a total nice guy. And not the actual kind of nice guy, the kind from r/niceguys where he thinks he's a good person but just isn't. He was totally pressuring her to be with him and shaming her for not choosing him until she does. It seems the whole narrative surrounding Tall Girl has shifted from, "Both of these people are awful" to, "Short King deserves better" when in reality, "Short King" is just a fuckin' creep.

[@eospolaris9472]

@@GreekDudeYiannis yeah, from the reviewers I follow I think there was only one who actually talked about how creepy he was acting

[@abbewinter9249]

Exactly! Acting like he wasn't creepy for pursuing Jodi for years just because she wasn't polite when she turned him down is kind of unnerving to me.

[@SuperSummer21]

Yessss -- Dunkers is the worst. Like he completely manipulated Steig to screw over Jodie in the first movie and is a total creep.

[@soulrecords857]

The only thing I can’t agree with is Amanda calling the short guy a “king”. He was the worst character in the first movie! He was so clingy over a girl who didn’t like him and made that clear constantly. Like cool dude you brought me smoothies and chased after me for years but no one asked you to do that! He’s the embodiment of a “nice guy” or Duckie from Pretty in Pink but more obnoxious and gets rewarded in the end.

[@birdiejett3163]

AGREED

[@roccoon9892]

I don’t think he classifies as a “niceguy™️” BUT, he is definitely clingy.

[@snqoqo]

@@roccoon9892 oh he definitely is, didnt he get pissed after tall girl didnt want him/chose someone else

[@raindropsonroses3919]

Yeah I found him so cringe

[@serianangel2667]

@@roccoon9892 with how he reacted to what-his-blonde-face? 100% Nice Guy™️

[@askarsfan2011]

I don't understand the love for Dunkleman. To me he still comes off as a budding "nice guy" incel who expects a girl to date him because he brought her smoothies she didn't ask for. He's a manipulative little twerk who makes everything about him. I prefer every other male character to him.

[@emilylaing6127]

So true, I don't understand how people can see what he is doing as anything but creepy

[@shikuthetempest]

I know you probably meant "twerp" but now I cannot stop picturing Dunkleman twerking. You have cursed me lol

[@angelikaskoroszyn8495]

It's strangely meta The move is (supposedly) about the trials and tears every tall girl goes through every day. How Hollywood writers treat disenfranchised minorities? They tokenize them And so the tall girl got tokenized. Just like there're gay characters whose only personality is "likes the same gender" her only personality is "tall"

[@Akursedtime]

Writer being like "What is her personality?" Director "Tall."

[@sebswede9005]

Writer: "Fair enough".

[@InternetsPedestrian]

I am really tired of POC being secondary love plot devices just for the main character to realize how much they love the white boy first love

[@TheSkullknight12]

Same. It's a tired and lazy trope.

[@angelikaskoroszyn8495]

It's such a strange trope but hey. It's USA thing, right? There somehow race relationships are complicated more than they should be

[@AerynKDesigns]

OKay, hon, but that Dunk kid is... terrifyingly controlling. They didn't even try to tone it down, they just doubled down on it like "hey, you thought he was too much as the best friend? just wait... WAIT for what he does as a boyfriend."

[@camithewitch5265]

Giant missed opportunity to have this movie called Taller Girl and let it be her villain origin story to face Godzilla in the third movie, called Giant Girl. Bad move, Netflix!

[@itskashkashi]

Really though, taller girl where a taller girl exchange student or transfer who is hella confident and loves herself that becomes instantly popular and someone she despises to show her up for the unlike character she is lol then in the end she realised her faults and they become buddies. Sounds like a nice cliche brain off movie.

[@damkylan3]

Nah, the final movie would have to be Tallest Girl, to keep the natural sequence, as well as just sounding more climactic. Then she can get redeemed after getting curbstomped by Godzilla, and the writers can pretend like there was an actual theme throughout, and in true trilogy fashion, the film ends with a callback to the "stand tall" line at the end of the first movie. "Today, I stand the tallest"... or some shit.

[@gammawolf3]

I hate that they do the same thing here they did in Kissing Booth 2 *and* To all the boys 2: introduce a nice dude for a pointless love triangle. It's so lazy, especially because we already had the damn love triangle in the first movie

[@shinymetagross1666]

If you're gonna shoehorn this in, then at least innovate. make a love dodecahedron you cowards

[@excessivelyfangirlingbookw3339]

Also: the new guy is *always* the obviously better option, yet she sticks to the guy she knows that treats her like shit

[@mildly_nita]

and the nice dude is usually poc or racially ambiguous 😭

[@happyleggo9904]

@@mildly_nita right? The fact that this is a recurring thing doesn’t look good for Netflix

[@maxwellwillows]

I think Jodie is such a... not great character because she had the least to work with. Everyone else had personality or goals in life, while she was just tall. There's not many ways to fix that conflict, she can't make herself shorter. And while this movie seemingly went a long way to give her more of a personality, they still had to work off of the first movie.

[@MrHendrix17]

There was potential for a great sequel where she goes for black market leg shortening surgery and she ends up in a Frankensteins lab style facility and has to fight her way out

[@maxwellwillows]

@@MrHendrix17 how dare you be so much funnier than me, lol

[@JimJamTheAdmin]

@@MrHendrix17 "We have the technology now, we can fix her."

[@d.tsukuyomi1869]

I mean, I kinda feel bad for Stig because Dunkleman manipulated him into saying, in that video, that he didn't like Jodi. He manipulated them into separation because Stig felt attracted to Jodi, an attraction that felt genuine and nice (even though Jodi was insufferable). I guess Dunkleman getting the girl in the end felt like the creepy kid with incel vibes could manipulate those around him with no problem, no consequence and get the girl!

[@HayleighPaige]

Thank you!! Yeah Stig made mistakes but they just full on gloss over the fact that short king over here was trying to sabotage him from the beginning behind her back

[@d.tsukuyomi1869]

@@HayleighPaige Exactly! And that annoys me to no end because it full-on blames Stig for the shit he was manipulated into doing and Dunkleman is rewarded for his shitty, manipulative behavior. That and he is full-on creepy towards the girl he CLAIMS to like

[@ashetrash9534]

oh man amanda i feel like ur severely misremembering short boy, he's always sucked, he was literally an obsessive manipulative nice guy the whole movie that constantly hit on his best friend who did not want that and had rejected him multiple times, and tried to sabotage said friend's relationship for his own personal gain, yet got rewarded for it at the end, also idk just cus he's spent his whole life chasing her, doesn't mean she owes him anything, it kinda feels like he just feels entitled

[@ava_marie_v]

Yeah, I didn't like him and this movie just made him worse

[@GamerSapss]

Yeah, the line of "You think you have problems?" and then talking about how she's tall, *that* is why people really hammered in "yes... the struggle of being tall" because she herself was belittling other struggles. Like my struggle is I'm a guy liking to have long hair. I would not be like "Oh, you think you have problems? Well, people will look at me from behind and go hey miss, only to be confused when I turn around" like... I found it annoying when I was 12, I find it funny now as 26, but I never, even as a kid, was like "It's such a struggle to be mistaken as a girl for my long hair"

[@Bridget466]

Long-haired King

[@keshakesha7667]

I raise to you my brothers discomfort at being cat-called because of his long hair Lol does that count?

[@BlueGangsta1958]

Even that line could've worked if the story showed us that she has actual problems that she refuses to acknowledge/ believes are caused by her height. ETA: Or maybe she has health issues caused by her size. Supposedly tall thin people have a higher likelihood of a spontaneous pneumothorax? That's certainly something to complain about.

[@bdp8102]

to be fair, it was a true struggle for me having people mistake me for a boy when I had short hair. so much so that I have worn my hair at waist-lenght ever since. But in my defense, I was six.

[@ricekrispyknees5693]

@@BlueGangsta1958 The crazy thing is is that the actress actually has faced harassment and issues over her height. She was a kid on Dance Moms, and Abby would bully her over her height I think to the point where where she was in tears. Girls who are tall in dance groups and communities are constantly being harassed and turned down for roles and spots just bc of their height, I've seen it first hand and it's insane. But the Tall Girl movie being set in a high school where its making it out like she's being bullied the most out of all the students there is just ridiculous, there were really much better ways to handle it.

[@stevegeorge6880]

My fourteen-year-old daughter and I watched this together expecting to just roast the hell out of it, and we did, but we also discovered that it was something like an actual nearly good movie in comparison to the original.

[@Zulf85]

Parent and child mutually roasting movies together sounds like a beautiful thing lmao

[@stevegeorge6880]

@@Zulf85 it certainly provides a venue for my best dad jokes.

[@oliviaspring9690]

Probably because now that her issue with being tall is mostly out of the way they have to try and come up with an actually compelling plot

[@stevegeorge6880]

@@oliviaspring9690 they seemed to care about the characters as characters more than as plot points this time. Like, I couldn't even remember her friend's name in the first one and neither could my daughter, but by the end of this one we were discussing her by name and wondering where she would go in the story. Also, they almost made an attempt to bring out New Orleans as a setting / character important to the story. Almost. There was a call back to A Confederacy of Dunces.

[@oliviaspring9690]

@@stevegeorge6880 yeah they probably just more care in general into this movie than the last one

[@Mimi-lm2ux]

I do feel for the Jodie actress because she was berated over her height in class an on national TV by her actual dance teacher so I can imagine that's a real sore point but these movies did nothing for her.

[@nekusakura6748]

Hopefully she gets to be in something of actual substance someday.

[@ollieno971]

He wasn’t a short king. He was a creepy asshole Incel, he didn’t deserve that other girl at all, and he was not too good for the main girl actually the exact opposite.

[@xilj4002]

He was a teenage NiceGuy™️ lite, not great but nowhere near incel levels, not even true NiceGuy™️ peaks. When did you see him asking advice on drugging and SAing Jodie, or hitting on a 12 year old, or calling women inferior roast beef femoids who don't even count as human? He did the BS thing with putting in the niceness coins and expecting intimate favors in exchange, but he doesn't hate women at all.

[@Conundrum191]

Of course she got the role....she has the high ground

[@mitchellgeorge6031]

Obi-Wan: Visible Happiness

[@riversrhodell2359]

This is genuinely better than any of the lines in the movie

[@Xehanort10]

Darth Jodi: You underestimate my height.

[@cormano64]

I'm eagerly waiting for the Tall Girl x Attack on Titan crossover.

[@mar.s6516]

That made me laugh so hard... Thanks :)

[@Tink00]

I feel like after everything that happened with Lady Dimitrescu, we really can't have the narrative "is tall unattractive?" anymore lol

[@Xehanort10]

The makers of these films would be going in her blood wine if she was real.

[@Alexander-wf3mt]

As someone who had a hopeless crush on a six-foot-tall girl in senior school I'm personally offended by the whole premise

[@birdiejett3163]

Nah I hate Dunkleman. He’s lowkey an incel. He obsesses over Jodie for years in the first movie despite her repeatedly saying she isn’t interested, acts weirdly pervy towards her before theyre even together, an acts like he deserves a relationship because of how long he’s been in love with her. In the second movie, he projects his jealousy and insecurities onto Jodie to the point of overlooking her obvious anxiety, and then gets offended that’s she too stressed to appreciate his pretentious romantic gestures. He claims to care about her but only insofar as he can gain her romantic attention. If I were dating him, I’d be worried that any little thing I said would trigger his insecurities and send him on some guilt trippy rant to make everything about him.

[@Cilibi]

Finally someone gets it!

[@BewareofBordome]

Hi, haven't seen any of the movies just seen many of the reactions. It seems like people keep forgetting that the reason Stig was a douche to Jodi in the first place, was because Dunkleman planted some BS into his mind that being popular meant he didn't have to settle for one girlfriend, when Stig was feeling conflicted about having feelings for Jodi while dating Kimmie. So when Dunks was defending Jodi's honor later, it came across as really disingenuous to me, because he literally created that monster. Somehow this fact has yet to come up in reviews for the sequel.

[@yourgiirlm3l]

@@BewareofBordome I always think about this! Stieg was a jerk but Dunk was an even bigger. He literally wanted to keep Jodie to himself. I wish the ending would of been him and Jodie remaining friends.

[@RobynO_O]

Yes! He is the absolute worst! I was so shocked that they actually keep acting like he's a good guy. He's such a creep

[@Xehanort10]

Pathetic sod also carried a milk crate around for years desperately hoping she'd kiss him one day.

[@videohistory722]

I hate how they retconned Dunkleman. Please do not forget that Stig only ghosted her because Dunk told him to stay away from her, because it was his only chance to have a real high school experience. He's a manipulative jerk!

[@MrBookworm01]

THANK YOU. Stig was such an adorable goofball in Tall Girl 2, so it's messed up he spent the whole movie pursuing a bromance with the guy who manipulated him into ruining his chances with Jodi so he could have her for himself.

[@CursedCatTruffa]

Dunkleman is a terrible person, he's the biggest nice boy incels ever

[@mellyq92]

Yesss

[@MrBookworm01]

PS: I'd give anything for Tall Girl 3 to have Jodi and Stig finding out what Dunkleman did, resulting in Jodi dumping him, Stig cutting ties with him, and the pair repairing their romantic relationship. As a replacement best bro for Stig, I nominate Tommy.

[@videohistory722]

@@MrBookworm01 unfortunately that already happened in the first movie. She forgave him after he stood up for her at the party. Thats why I tried to get away from it in my pitch. It's obvious that's not gonna happen, so I went the pathetic route where we have to wait it out.

[@kelsey.is.offline]

i watched the movie with my teen sister who has general anxiety disorder, and the scene where Jodi has a panic attack was actually an accurate depiction of what it’s like.

[@TriggerBud]

Huh, I used to get violent panic attacks (I still get them from time to time, but I can get myself back from them quicker without them getting too bad lol), but I haven’t seen a lot of accurate depictions (at least to me) of panic attacks on screen. The only one I can think of right now was from the character Dani in Midsommar. You just made me a hell of a lot more interested in watching this movie other than just to make fun of it 😂 *edited for grammar and spelling. I suck at it lol

[@kelsey.is.offline]

lol. *watches tall girl 2 for the panic attack*

[@alliendisguise]

“I want the best for both of them and neither of that is Jodie!” And that’s why both of them should be together. We love two gay kings.

[@jasonellis4330]

What do you mean they ruined Dunkleman? He was always like that. He was not too good for Jodie. He was an obsessive Nice Guy who wouldn't take no for an answer and deliberately tried to ruin a relationship. Ngl it was really weird to hear him called a king this whole video

[@Hechauther]

Yeah, it’s like she completely forgot about how he was in the first movie 🎥

[@Karragh]

If this movie had actually been called "2 tall 2 furious" I'd have been 100% on board.

[@kestreldomann2787]

Can't wait for the Tall Girl franchise Tall Girl 2 Tall 2 Girl Tall and Girl Tall 5 Tall Girl: Tokyo Drift

[@judeconnor-macintyre9874]

Tall Girl: Swedish Drift.

[@amelia3146]

“Y’all Girl”* is a remake of “My Girl” that takes place in Texas from the perspective of an outsider-identified by his signature cowboy hat-who’s just drifting through town and happens to be there for the middle-end of the story. We are provided an unbiased narrator and see how the community, the family, and the friend all react. *the title would need to be “Y’all’s Girl”-you know, to be more or less grammatically correct while still using the given colloquialism(s)

[@TheFourthWinchester]

Y'all girl is basically everyone's girl.

[@arrow_of_ravenclaw5155]

We live in a world where we have two tall girl movies yet one season of I’m not okay with this

[@lisasowa1195]

I‘m Not okay with this :(

[@lalitthapa101]

@@lisasowa1195 I'm definitely not okay with this💀

[@DarkFaeCosplay]

You want pain just read the graphic novel of it

[@shoujokadyan5502]

I cannot forget that Dunkleman watched Jodi sleep before he gave her her ~precious~ heels like a creeper.

[@alisaurus4224]

My husband is 15” (38cm) taller than me, and there are no milk crates. I take advantage of steps & curbs for same-level smoochin’, or he uses his human joints and BENDS DOWN

[@sleepypsori7747]

I'm significantly shorter than my partner, even if they bend down I still need to go on my tip toes to be on a similar level, milk crates are not needed use your joints, Milk crates are a accident waiting to happen.

[@800Ms-k6n]

I seriously wanna know who the hell the target audience is for this movie? Who even enjoy these type of movies?

[@trinaq]

I have no clue, it's an insult to their target audience. I can't believe that Netflix cancelled "I am not Okay with This" and "Julie and the Phantoms", but actually greenlit a sequels to Tall Girl and the Kissing Booth movies?! 😡

[@monicacreator3168]

Tall awkward teenagers?

[@excessivelyfangirlingbookw3339]

Apparently every woman taller than 6ft 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@scotthardie5141]

Netflix algorithms can't detect irony

[@henriquecunha344]

Short guys and tall girls probably. It’s nice to see a short guy and a tall girl break the heterosexual couple stereotype. I think that’s the main reason why the people who like this movie like it (including me)

[@MadMexi]

I was 6ft tall in high school but that honestly wasn’t the biggest of my problems at all? Like being the only out lesbian at school, struggling with toxic friendships and mental illness were much bigger issues for me. Idk I just feel like the only issue of this pretty girl is that she’s tall. It’s honestly boring asf, like give us other struggles...

[@sketcher445]

Honestly, being in an American High School should be a bigger struggle for her than being tall

[@Hinapen1]

As a 5 ft 33 year old woman, I'm thrilled that I can buy my shoes and coats from the children's department.

[@markiangooley]

Might occasionally save you money but the styles are probably just plain wrong sometimes…

[@alisaurus4224]

I thought you said 5’33” and i was like DAMN that’s a weird way to say you’re 7’7”

[@mercedesmercado4231]

Seriously sometimes I find the cutest hoodies and jackets in the boys section that fit my arms the way their supposed to. And you spend a fraction of the cost.

[@Xehanort10]

8:41 Exactly. People weren't saying tall people don't have problems but her height wasn't the obstacle she thought it was.

[@wildwesley9328]

She is like what 6’1”??? I’m 6’3” and I’m not even as tall as some of the other girls I was teammates with (I played volleyball) I played with a girl that was 6’7” and still growing. I think she ended up at 6’10” or 11” and she was thriving. She even wore heels regularly and is dating a guy my height (that she calls short)! She and I would complain about how showers are never high enough, how painful car/plane rides are, how hard it was to find any clothes at all in our respective sizes. We never once complained to non tall people or even made it seem like they were the worst problems in the world or even OUR worst problems.

[@rmjl1793]

Honestly I get Dunk or w.e. being hurt but Jody never asked him to bring her smoothies every day and incessantly chase after her and yes, put her on a pedestal. I honestly just hate they got together - it was so unearned in the first movie and kinda gross

[@videohistory722]

Already got a pitch for the 3rd one, cause you KNOW there's gonna be one, as is tradition with these Netflix movies. She starts looking at colleges, which means campus tours. Lets say there's more than one she's looking at, which means potentially she could be looking at doing different things at each one. Also, one thing these movies have going for it that KB didn't: Jodie is not a Mary Sue, meaning she has things to be looking at schools for. In this case, music, drama, and English. But what she didn't expect was to discover that yes, there IS a whole world outside of high school, where nobody knows her past, and so many different people taller than her. Which naturally makes Dunk upset because he'd just assumed they'd go to the same school. And does his jerk thing AGAIN. But this time JODIE breaks up with HIM, because again, now that she knows life doesn't end at high school, she's starting to realize how trivial everything in high school actually is. And when it comes right down to it: whatever it is she sees in him, at the end of the day, Dunk is only the high school boyfriend, and until he decides to grow up and figure out who he is when not being obsessed with Jodie, that's all he'll ever be. Flash forward: they meet up again, but surprise: Jodie is happily married, but Dunk has finally grown up and recognized where he went wrong, and that she did the right thing breaking up with him. And then Liz, the girl that liked Dunk in the first one, shows up and one of them asks for a do over. They do, and it's left ambiguous on whether anything happened after that.

[@d.tsukuyomi1869]

That, but we know Jodi will end up with Dunk. It's a Netflix movie.

[@riversrhodell2359]

That would actually be somewhat nice. Would continue the trend of the movies getting better.

[@jadacampbell9331]

Liz deserves better than that even after change

[@angies8717]

Jack/short King gives of such a villain vibe in my opinion. 😂 maybe because he played the villain in key house (what is absolutely a must watch on netflix!), maybe it is the possessive and creepy behaviour in tall girl...who knows. 🤔 I swear to god, one day he is going to play some major villain in a popular series/movie...I just feel it in my bones. 😂

[@WhiteRaven696]

Sabrina Carpenter being an icon and the best part of the movie? How absolutely shocking. Not. 💅🏽

[@wilfredoanunezpacheco5367]

Overrated

[@caithenry8429]

Can I add into the gauntlet of better yet still terrible sequel names: Two Tall Girl. Two of course being either the actual spelling of the number, 2, or too--whatever looks the most atrocious

[@alisaurus4224]

2 Tall 2 Girl

[@scotthardie5141]

Tall Girl Too?

[@samkaranja5709]

Tall Girl and the Short King. Tall Girl: Growth Spurt. Tall Girl: Growing Pains. Taller Girl. Tall Girl 2: Tall harder. Just a few better names than Tall Girl 2

[@edgarallenhoe3518]

Too Tall Girl

[@incw.2601]

T2o Tall Girl

[@athenajaxon2397]

Does every single teen romance movie have to have the main girl have a POC second love interest that she never chooses and instead chooses her original white boyfriend?

[@thatlycantomboy]

yes. which is why we should kill the teen romance as a genre

[@shoujokadyan5502]

I blame To All The Boys for starting this trend.

[@athenajaxon2397]

@@shoujokadyan5502 nah it's been a thing since Twilight although To all the boys 2 pissed me off because John Ambrose is white in the books and they even cast a white actor but changed him after getting minor backlash on twitter for not having enough diversity. Apparently they didn't even tell the original actor he found out online

[@rachaelf5903]

@@athenajaxon2397 err twilight? Taylor Lautner is white…but at least his portrayed race made narrative sense. Other films are just going for the diversity points without actually caring about it

[@athenajaxon2397]

@@rachaelf5903 I know Taylor Lautner is white but in the story he's Native American but I agree I liked it in Twilight

[@probablyhyperfixating]

I feel so bad for this girl she gets made fun of so much for being in these movies, but i dont think people remember she was the one humiliated on dance moms for being too tall. Abby literally kicked her off the team for being too tall on national television. I'll support anything she does bcs if she handled that and came back to make a movie referring to her tallness is a boss move!!! I wish people gave her some credit

[@bejo2551]

Jodi is so tall, they needed two movies to capture her struggles

[@westmezzanine4321]

“It’s just a horrible part of life that never goes away, like Maroon 5” Okay that’s a great line though

[@coversbycat8016]

I think it's weird that dunkleman had been asking jodi out for Years despite her saying no multiple times and stayed friends with her for the soul purpose that they might date.

[@natkai]

I can't believe the movie industry is finally talking about this kind of real tragedies. We, as a society should be more aware of how terrible it is to be white, beautiful and tall. Thoughts and prayers for everyone going through this 🥺🙏

[@draum8103]

You know whoever came up with the idea for this was like 'You know what would be totally crazy? If someone was tall. That would be like...worse than being DEAD!'

[@thevillainousqueenofhearts4976]

She was bullied for it tho, how cruelly idk, but it’s not like bullying However light it might have been doesn’t hurt. They probably should have just portrayed it better.

[@donnamitsuki281]

It still very much bugs me how her problem in the first movie wasn't even her being tall it was her not being capable of making an exception and dating someone shorter than her.

[@seratia123]

No, her problem was that she was tall but had no boyfriend. In the end she picked the short creepy guy she was never interested in because...I don't know why

[@icedcapplord710]

We had to lose the MCU Netflix series to get a sequel to TALL GIRL This is just unfair lol

[@jacearmor5274]

Amanda, do not try and blame us for this mess of a movie!!!! We keep telling them to stop make this, heck we were clowning on them for making it!!!!

[@dee5635]

All publicity is good publicity tho

[@lili-oy1xf]

Its coz we clowned it that it got a sequel that gave it attention and the sequel was watched a lot even if it wasn't for a good reason

[@Mayonnaise420]

The way my eyes rolled into the back of my head when I saw that this movie does what literally every other sequel to a bad/mediocre movie does which is add a racially ambiguous second love interest to rival the main character’s white boyfriend

[@sashakehoe1782]

Dibs on submitting the script "Ya'll Girl" to Netflix. It's a romantic comedy about a city girl who moves to the city and runs for prom queen to upend the legacy of the current matrilineal line of prom queens at the one high school. It's okay, that girl has other dreams, too.

[@Monicalia]

Seeing Griffin Gluck in here breaks my heart because he was fantastic in Locke & Key. My man Gabe deserves better. edit: yeah, this movie is better than the first one, but dude's such an amazing actor I want him in better movies in general.

[@itskashkashi]

Sabrina carpenter too

[@randud]

And in American vandal!

[@filmfangirls9163]

@@randud I love that show!!

[@aguywithalotofopinions412]

The line “Looks like there’s a new tall girl in town” had me rolling on the floor

[@jonathanwright8025]

No cross over with Maddie Ziegler from Music? No watching Jojo Siwa on Dancing with the Stars? When are we going to have the "No Way Home" of the Dance Moms Cinematic Universe?

[@Kameab1213]

Recently I've been having panic attacks almost daily now and the one thing you have to take away from that is that you are not dying. It is temporary. Those feelings will go away. It's hard when you're in the moment to think that way. It does sometimes take someone on the outside speaking in from the outside to remind you.

[@dragonhoffele]

As someone who was born and raised in Louisiana (which these movies are sadly based in) I can say that a lot of women are pretty short, but the one above 6ft girl that was in our high school was one of the most popular chicks around. She used to give piggyback rides to other girls during gym class. Louisiana high school students can give a shit less about your height, we’re worried about Gumbo day and Spirit Week, that’s about it.

[@dramamole]

I just feel like it needs to be mentioned that there are SEVEN leads in Bye Bye Birdie. Kim isn't even the most standout female role, if anything it's Rosie. And I'm assuming that Tommy is playing Birdie not Hugo so there would not be a dance between the two of them. And also Hugo is Kim's love interest not Birdir, in fact Birdie never kisses Kim they don't even spend much stage time together. Of course I know it's too much to ask for these writers to do any research.

[@filmfangirls9163]

YES!! and in the musical the main character was actually Albert! Kim was made the lead more in the movie but if the creators of this movie actually did some research they would know that!! LOL

[@nateds7326]

Ok why is it that every time there's a sequel to a rom com these days, the sequel always have a cheating and/or presumed cheating plotline?

[@josephcowan6779]

I do appreciate what they tried to do with this movie, the theme being it was never just about being tall, it was how she perceived her self-worth. and the movie is about her dealing with herself as the bully. However, it's still really hard to watch a movie about all these characters that are beautiful, talented, have tight support group of friends and family, and are VERY WEALTHY, and be like ahhh yes relatable teenage moments. It just feels like a joke, seriously. Not that anxiety isn't a real problem or something, but all these people just live in a completely different reality oh my god.

[@djenae2852]

Now hold on- TALL GIRL WAS THREE YEARS AGO?!?!?!

[@AresVisualsMeva]

Worst part is Griffin Gluck was in an infinitely better Netflix series called American Vandal, which was unceremoniously cancelled after two seasons despite being much better than this. If you want a good mystery mockumentary series then I would very highly recommend it.

[@filmfangirls9163]

I watched it thanks to Amanda praising it!! So good.

[@wdcemmm]

the anime "lovely complex" is what "tall girl" wants to be. i can feel it.

[@MadNeko27]

Oh i enjoyed that one.

[@andreware2039]

I can't wait for the sequel "Tall Girl 3 is our fault, again" 😃

[@draum8103]

In Tall Girl 3, it's revealed that she was actually short the entire time. Look it up, it's in the books.

[@skylarkblue1]

As "someone with cancer", girl, you wanna complain about your life, have at it. Different struggles for different people. I absolutely hate it when people use that excuse because no, my life shouldn't be used to shut down others' thoughts and struggles because that'll just make that person internalise it and possibly make it worse. Sure there's a limit, don't try and make yourself out to be the like the person with the worst struggles ever for examples, but rants and expressing your own anxieties and worries isn't something that should be silenced because the listener doesn't think they would find it hard if they where in the speaker's position for example.

[@jonathanwright8025]

Sorry for your illness. I hope you get through it well.

[@Kalypsoo]

As someone with mental illness, I agree with that but my problem is that she's acting like being tall is the worst thing in the world. She litteraly said "beat that" at the beggining of the first movie

[@skylarkblue1]

@@Kalypsoo oh yeah no this movie sucks especially for that part. I was more on about the comments around that in general

[@Meanie74]

The Tall Girl Monologue is particularly crazy bc it’s starting a movie with a character stating her struggles are completely unique to her and therefore making it directly harder for the audience to empathize. “Put yourself in my shoes, oh wait you can’t relate” Do you want me to watch the movie about understanding you or are you telling me there’s no point?

[@TheDarkAgez]

Something I’m surprised about: I think it would have been interesting to have a sports storyline. Something like basketball or volleyball where she thinks she should automatically be good, but realizing that she has to put in the work and be a part of the team and not just be “the tall girl.” But also, just not having another movie is more great.

[@mimosa5174]

Short king Dunkle is shining in some other projects at least. He’s part of the main cast in Locke & Key (Netflix series) and I think he does really well in it! I recommend it.

[@kellz5261]

The black "other guy" characters are always better. John Amborse. This random guy. Marco from Kissing booth. Why don't these girls learnnnnnnn

[@isabellhell]

"Keep walking Ikea"?! As a Swed I am slightly offended. Don't use IKEA as an insult. xD

[@nadiabishop5650]

I want a Netflix movie about how I’m only 5’3 and sometimes it hard to reach things that are high… and I have to get a step… it can be really hard guys….

[@tabathaarria9558]

"you see what happened when you get away from jodi for a little bit? emotional growth and development" so that's why jodi is so tall. she stunted everybody's growth

[@gp2671]

It's not my fault lol. I didn't even hate watch the first movie. I just let reactors hate watch it for me.

[@jonasquinn7977]

But by doing that you fed the algorithm which made it more likely they’d make a second one

[@raccoon9951]

“Amanda, I will look for you, I will find you and I will recite one of your videos to you” - Liam Nissan probably

[@emilyjones2794]

Confused.. A lot of movies have taller women being seen and desirable or have a maina charter be a taller women.. So I'm not sure why her being tall is a problem. Is it just because she is in high-school that her tallmess is a problem?

[@rivarocci7025]

I watched both movies with my sister who is a ‘tall girl’ as well (6’1 by 12 years old, now 6’4-6’5) and she HATED them. Said they were more then unrealistic and she didn’t feel any attachment to ‘Jodi’ at all. At ‘Jodi’s’ age she already had knee surgery twice and generally suffered from kind of ‘unstable’ joints (popping Shoulders and knees all the time) and something like that is never talked about again after the conversation at the doctors office…which weirdly my parents had with my sisters pediatrician when she was young. 🤔 Also cringed really hard because my dad made the ‘carry a crate around’ joke ever since we both were in our early teens… Don’t know how I feel about that.

[@ginasmith8569]

As Dylan said in his commentary, she should have grown taller and this should have been her problem in the movie. Not that she’s now anxious. Also she could have moved of Sweden and been surround my taller people who made fun of her which gave her a different problem.

[@schabernack.]

i love how three of the four cinematic youtubers i follow all have Tall Girl 2 videos this week and i know all of them will be gold

[@shimmerly3706]

The only reason I knew about this film was because watching the original review, then the other week Netflix of course plays the trailer for the sequel, I'm quite looking forward to this review!

[@haku8135]

Why is she so pissed off that Jodie is AUDITIONING if she's always the lead? That..... that means she's the best actress so she keeps getting picked, right? Does NOBODY else in the entire school audition for the lead role? Does she RELY on being picked by default? I'm so confused.

[@LoveableNiki]

I appreciate Amanda making these videos. I would not watch half of these movies, but Amanda's commentaries are so interesting. Thank you so much!

[@bbureau12]

Do most high schools have after parties on boats for their musicals? I think our theater department had a stereo from the late 70s, an out of tune piano.

[@bbrbbr-on2gd]

It's brave of her to come back after being nuked from orbit with the "Taller Swift" burn from the last movie.

[@bbear2695]

oh, im sooo glad youre covering this. i didnt want to have to watch it, or if i do im not going in blind

[@shawn4819]

I really want Amanda to watch this Korean film that was put on my recommendations called Love and Leashes. It looked like Korean 50 shades but it kinda became the anti 50 shades

[@Raicheru13]

You have re-ignited my love of movies. I grew up with no cable and 440+ VHS tapes at my house that we watched over and over. By my joy at consuming media has waned as I get older. But I finally watched Jojo Rabbit after seeing you had a video about it and I'm so glad that I did. (I have several more movies added to my watch list now.) The way that you talk about the things that are successful and the things that don't work, coupled with your honest admission about what you like no matter what objective quality it has, makes this such a great channel. Congrats on 500k subscribers!

[@perezo27]

The fact that the caricature mean girl from the first movie is a better character than her is insane to me, it's great

[@neivilde.1242]

there is a scene in the movie where dunk tells stig he can stay for the summer and i was like god damn it they're planning a third one!

[@milktea6676]

Yes tall girl the sequel we did not ask for 😂👍 But somehow I prefer over the original

[@Merepi]

Dunk was absolutely a manipulative shit during the dinner date. The incessant need for it to be called a “3 month anniversary” and not a regular date is one thing. The need to gaslight her for wanting to leave the date after he asked if she wanted to leave is another! “How dare you want to leave”. It bugged me how they called it a “fight” and Dunk was the only one in the wrong. I also hated that she still seemed to need someone to jump into a confrontation for her. She kinda damsels herself a bit. And then she burns the heels that was supposed to represent her love of her height. But apparently it was actually a rep for her and dunk. She practically never actually loved her height on her own for herself.

[@svipulvalke9913]

I gotta be honest when i heard about the first film I honestly assumed it was about a trans girl struggling to fit in at school and being insecure about her "traditionally more masculine" characteristics learning to love herself betterer. Was so confused to find out the film's only shtick was "there's this girl. She's amazing in every way only she's... TALL!!" Like maybe if it had been made in the 70s... Sure. My idea is tonnes better