Instead of admitting the lie, Olive finds it much more funny to assume her new role as the school tramp and starts wearing trashy lingerie to school with a bright red "A" sewn on the front, to both celebrate and mock the book they are studying in her favorite teacher, Mr. Griffith's (Thomas Hayden Church) class. However, the fallacy doesn't stop there. Olive is approached by another school misfit, Brandon (Dan Byrd), a young man ostracized because he is gay. He asks Olive to pretend that she slept with him to change the way people perceive him and she does, in loud and grand fashion at a big party. Well, soon Olive is even more persecuted at school because Marianne and her religious club have decided Olive needs to be booted from school and not only that, but other school misfits have started apporaching Olive, once Brandon tells them the truth about what she really did for him, and they want her help too; all in exchange for a gift card or two. Once the snowball has begun, Olive doesn't see a point in not helping them, since everyone has already assumed the worst about her. But what she can't bear is the thought that her childhood sweetheart, Todd (Penn Badgley), might think she is what everyone else believes her to be. Olive finally decides to set the record straight via a blog on the internet, but not before she's lost her best friend to the group of persecutors and not before she is blamed for many more things than she's even pretended to do.
While the subject matter is somewhat adult, it's handled in a lighthearted and very funny way, for the most part. The acting is absolutely superb in Easy A and Emma Stone is just hysterical. But really, the entire cast is stellar and chock full of great actors in small and offbeat roles. Olive's parents are played by Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson and they are a laugh riot. Malcolm McDowell has a small role as the principal (what a badass school to have him as the principal, right?) and Lisa Kudrow stars as Mr. Griffith's wife and the school's guidance counselor who could use a bit of guidance herself. Even Amanda Bynes as the self-righteous school stick-in-the-mud plays her role in an annoyingly perfect way.
There are typical special features like a gag reel and commentary, but there are also additions like Emma Stone's audition footage, a featurette on 80's movies (and Easy A really feels like one of those classic 80's flicks like Can't Buy me Love), a making-of featurette, one on the made up terms in the film for various sexual activities, and a pop-up trivia track. A number of these are Blu-ray exclusive, but if you need another reason to select Blu-ray over regular DVD, the background scenery of the magnificent city of Ojai, where the movie was filmed, is simply breathtaking in high def. I visited Ojai a few months ago and this movie only shows a glimpse of what this lovely town has to offer, but Blu-ray does the scenery justice.
Overall, Easy A is just a great comedy with a nice little message behind it. It's not prudish or preachy, but really funny and packs a punch with its fantastic cast and witty writing. If you want to laugh, check out Easy A. Highly recommended.
