From director Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham),this looked like it could be a pretty entertaining British comedy based around another coming of age story, the title was certainly catchy. Basically it is the first day of school for Georgia Nicolson (Georgia Groome) and her friends Jas (Eleanor Tomlinson),Ellen (Manjeeven Grewal) and Rosie Barnes (Georgia Henshaw) living in Eastbourne. They spot two good looking brothers moved from London, non identical twins Robbie (Aaron Johnson) and Tom (Sean Bourke),and the girls follow them as new friend Dave the Laugh (Tommy Bastow) shows them around. Georgia plans to get close to Robbie, as he likes cat like she does, so she pretends her cat Angus has gone missing, it is instead Tom that gets the cat and he starts dating Jas, while Robbie goes out with Georgia's rival Wet Lindsay (Kimberley Nixon). Georgia's father Bob (QI's Alan Davies) is planning to move the whole family to New Zealand because of his new job offer, while he is away her mother Connie Nicolson (FAQ U's Karen Taylor) looks like she is spending too much time with handsome hired builder Jem (T4's Steve Jones),making her question her parents' marriage. To "grow up" for Robbie, Georgia starts "perfect snogging lessons" with Peter Dyer (Liam Hess),and infatuated with her he attempts to kiss her at a party one night, and she falls over exposing her knickers to her friends and Tom, and because Robbie saw her she tells Peter she is a lesbian. The next day Tom, Jas and Robbie go swimming, and Georgia stuck babysitting her little sister is there too, and she gets to kiss Robie, before he leaves saying that he will call her later. A few weeks later, Robbie's band, the Stiff Dylans, are doing a gig, and Dave the Laugh invites Georgia to come along, but before she gets the chance to talk to Robbie she is stopped by Lindsay. Both Dave and Robbie realise the jealousy scheme that Georgia was plotting, and they both stop talking to her, and an argument with Jas confessing she leaked this information means they are not speaking to each other too. Thinking her life is no longer worth living in England, Georgia initially says she will go with her father to New Zealand, before finding out that Robbie has dumped Lindsay for her, as he still likes her. In the end, thinking that her mother is planning an uncool fifteenth birthday party for her, Georgia is surprised to see all her friends attending a club, with The Stiff Dylans playing on stage, her father returned and staying home, and she and Robbie get their confirming kiss. Also starring Eva Drew as Libby, Imogen Bain as Headmistress and Ingrid Oliver as Miss Stamp. In the leading role, young Groome is really good with her dry sense of humour, the embarrassing parents get their time, and the other supporting cast members get their moments too. The story mainly focusing on hormonal teenage attitudes to love, snogging, fashion and maybe a little mention of sex is appealing when it doesn't use gross out jokes, it is just witty dialogue and well acted comedy drama. Good!

Georgia fancies Robbie who is going out with Lindsay so she starts plotting with her friends even though her parents won't let her have the 16th birthday party she wants and besides her dad is getting promoted to New Zealand and her mum may have something going on with the hunky builder...

This film is based on books which I haven't read. It is OK. It's not terribly original, but is mildly amusing nonetheless. The acting is, for the large part, no better than adequate and, regrettably, this includes the adult cast as well as the teens. The only cast member who stands out as good as Aaron Johnston who, of course (and, I suspect, not entirely coincidentally),has gone on to bigger and better things.

I guess Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging is the female equivalent of the teenage male sex comedies, without the sex or gratuitous nudity that is, because this is firmly in chick lit territory and based upon two books written by Louise Rennison - Angus, Thongs and Full- Frontal Snogging and On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God. If you may, this aligns itself more toward Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole series, where we get a glimpse of the titular character's daily life and anxieties through episodes of growing pains.

Directed by Gurinder Chadha who brought us Bride & Prejudice and Bend It Like Beckham, this movie centres upon 14 year old Georgia Nicholson (Georgia Groome) and her three girly pals whom Jas (Eleanor Tomlinson) is her best pal of the lot. Both have major infatuations with new boys in school Robbie (Aaron Johnson) and Tom (Sean Bourke),and naturally jealousy ensues when Jas manages to hook up with Tom, but for Georgia, she's stuck with having to battle for Robbie's affections with rival Wet Lindsay (Kimberley Nixon, last seen in Wild Child),who's the school's flower with cover girl looks.

And while "boylingual issues" occupy the bulk of Georgia's time, she also has major freak- outs with trying to figure how to throw the most memorable birthday party ever, as well as trying to save her own family from disintegrating, with Dad (Alan Davies) being sent to New Zealand because of a major promotion at work, and Mom (Karen Taylor) seems to be having a flirty good time with their home interior decorator.

It's quite a ditzy film and I guess for all the girls out there, the events as they unfold in the movie will probably be easily identifiable, and I guess the boys too will have a field day with some of the situational humour which came by the bucketloads. And what I thought to be really quite accurate, is the way how everyone second guesses each other when it comes to the affairs of the hearts, and sometimes dwell onto stuff a little too much to the extreme, incessantly finding meaning in something as simple as a word or phrase. This naturally brings out the ugliness that stem from desperation, and we observe how Georgia slowly degenerates from nice girl next door, to uber Ms Insensitive.

It's a fairly light and breezy chick flick that is peppered by some insane characters, such as Georgia's sister who thinks that she's a cat, and probably who I thought to be one of the most innovative fellas out there who would outplay, outlast and outwit the likes of Stifler and McLovin, is Peter Dyer, the self-professed expert who offers lessons and opportunity in allowing girls to experiment in achieving the perfect snog. Talk about being sly!

Ultimately, this is a feel good movie which has all its loose threads tied up very conveniently, which you could see coming from a mile away. But it doesn't dwell on its problems for too long, because there's always a solution that springs up for Georgia and gang to tap on. Peppered by some good music in the soundtrack, and generally likable characters who remind all of us of some dreaded issues when growing up, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging is a surprisingly well designed teenage comedy that doesn't have to rely on cheap gimmicks like incessant foul language, sex and nudity to draw the crowds.

And for that quality, this is somewhat refreshing for comedies targeted at that demographics. I might go one step further and say I won't mind ploughing through the books as well!