I saw Girl when i was in 8th grade and i loved it, in my small town the underground music scene was really popular too. Most importantly the music in the film was GREAT! John Kahn's voice is so haunting and soulful, his music couldn't have fit the movie more perfectly! I loved how the movie put Andera's heartache out in the open, i feel in a way it was a good lesson for girls, Todd Sparrow possessed every trait in a man i find repellent for the simple purpose that everything i find repellent is everything i cant resist....well see the movie and you'll know what i mean, both characters had their own stories .The storyline was a bit redundant but what girl doesn't wish they were Andrea? The only thing i wish would have been different was the ending, i mean.... leave Todd Sparrow?! so to say the least the movie was great! If anyone knows where i can get the soundtrack please let me know!!!!!

I thought Girl was a funny film adaptation of the book. The book, to me, was better because while reading it, I wasn't subjected to the horrible music in the movie. I like the storyline and the concept and the characters, but the songs that were performed in the film are AWFUL, making this a very bad film in general. If you can fast forward thru all the cheesy music, you'll enjoy this film a lot more. I liked the Portland-area setting but the movie was filmed in Los Angeles. I've seen this movie several times at around 4 in the morning on obscure movie channels. Dominique Swain is truly the star of this film and her parents are also incredibly funny. Tara Reid does a good acting job also, but Selma Blair just can't act. Period.

After reading some of the other comments I just had to post my own review. It seems people are being oddly harsh on this film, and all I can figure is they went into it with certain expectations (be it based on certain actors' other works or the book the movie is based on) which prejudiced them towards the film. I really do think this is a great movie. Maybe in my top 10. Screw that, definitely in my Top 10 heh. And I'm not a 14 year old girl, I'm twenty and last time I checked I had male bits! I'm going to just run through a couple of the main complaints that struck me as being sort of "misguided": First of all, of course Andrea's character is wishy-washy, she's going through a transitional phase in her life. No one, I repeat NO ONE just wakes up one day and becomes a totally different person. There're always going to be missteps along the way. Also it's not like she was totally random, she was fairly consistent in her dealings with specific characters. For example she was always more timid around Cybil than she was around Darcy. I also thought the "cheesiness" of the movie was all part of the style of humor, and it's more dorky than cheesy. I mean I have very high standards when it comes to the movies I watch, so this isn't a case of apologizing for a sloppy film, I genuinely think this is a solid movie! Some of my favorite movies are Picnic At Hanging Rock, Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre, and the moderately obscure Crispin Glover film Beaver Trilogy, so I'm a FILM SNOB! And I thoroughly recommend this movie.My only real complaint about it would be there's sort of a one-note joke that's repeated a couple times where Andrea will say one thing and then the film will cut to her doing the exact opposite, which actually works somewhat brilliantly the first couple of times to emphasize that she IS still maturing, and kind of has a ways to go, even if she puts on the air of maturity now and again heh. I just think it was repeated one or two too many times, as even I kind of rolled my eyes at that the last time it's done. One overplayed joke, that's it! The things I liked about the film were it's really sensitive dealings with the various characters. I really can't think of a single character that desperately needed to be developed more, which, considering how many characters there are, and the fact that this isn't an excessively long film, is actually fairly AMAZING. Even smaller parts such as Carla, where Portia Di Rossi really doesn't have THAT much to do and doesn't evolve much (if at all) during the movie, have some great nuances to them (the thing with the hair... come on, even if that's almost her only function in the film, it's great!).Now, I haven't read the book. Maybe I should, maybe it really is that much better than the movie! If you have read the book, I guess beware that you might be disappointed in this film if you rent it. Everyone else though, there's no reason to go into this film with low expectations, or worse yet, avoid it altogether! It's not going to be for everyone (just like, I dunno, 2 Fast 2 Furious probably wouldn't appeal to most of the tea-sipping femme-folk of the world), but as far as under-recognized movies go, it truly is a stellar film.

I read this book years before they made it a movie. I so loved the book. Years later i was watching TV with my best friend (who also loved the book) and it came on the movie channel. I love this movie. I can understand where a guy might think this a bad movie. But i think you have to be a girl to understand and really appreciate this movie. Give it a chance. Its like a coming of age movie but more. Andrea is this strait a student thats been sheltered and its her senior year and feels like she needs to experience more before going to college. She falls for this beautiful lead singer of a band, the color green. She thinks he will change her life when really in the end she changes his. Its a great movie. I really recommend it to any female, and any guy willing to have an open mind and not be like a total stupid male.