Teen Movies

After the success of last night’s comedy film, starring the (sort of) kingpin of comedy, Ben Stiller and the never-aging Cameron Diaz in There’s Something About Mary, I feel much more relaxed about #EducatingGrimmy. He took it rather well considering we all piled into his flat, expected him to make us dinner and forced him to engage in a pastime that he considers pointless… Ok, he may have excused himself from the room a few times, to change his jeans, to run after the puppy, to cook dinner but I think he got the gist!

He gave it 3/5 stars, lots of filler in the middle but some great set pieces, mainly slapstick because Ben Stiller just does it so well. It’s one of those films that you remember as being better than it actually is and also SO MUCH GROSSER. You see GENITALS! TRAPPED IN A ZIP! Bleugh…

Onwards and upwards! Today’s genre is TEEN (I get that these aren’t totally legitimate genres but remember, it is Grimmy we’re dealing with) and we had the Queen of teen (too cheesy?), Vanessa Hudgens in to chat about her latest movie, The Frozen Ground. Which admittedly is quite a dark film about a serial killer but I think we took her back to her High School Musicalroots! She was pretty shocked about Grimmy’s cluelessness (see what I did there?) and recommended Labyrinth with David Bowie. The thing with teen films is that if you didn’t grow up with it, you don’t always “get” it. David Bowie gyrating around a young Jennifer Connelly while gargoyles banter with each other? No thanks.

As well as being on the R1 Breakfast Show, Vanessa shimmied over to 1Xtra Breakfast with Twin B and new co-host Yasmin Evans, where she was coerced into re-enacting a scene from Eastenders. And by ‘eck - she loved it!

When we’re talking teen films, it could be anything from Twilightto Ferris Bueller’s Day Off to 10 Things I Hate About You. I was personally hoping for Clueless, not that I want to sway public opinion but I’d guess that out of all the teen films, Grimmy will have seen that one already… I’m just hoping for a really nostalgic night where I can swoon over the lead male in peace. I’ve just had a flashback to She’s All That, Freddie Prinze Jr all dressed up for his prom, taking the “ugly” girl out on a date. Except that she wasn’t ugly, she was a beaut. I always hoped that someone would want to transform me... actually, why did all the old teen films involve a personality transplant/makeover? It’s not as if film-makers want to exploit our insecurities or anything.

The film that Grimmy picked from the listeners’ favourites was 80s cult classic, The Breakfast Club. If I’m honest, I think he’ll find it too wordy. 5 kids “finding themselves” and bickering in a school might not be quite up his alley. Did we make the right choice? I’m not sure… any other suggestions I should pass on? We’ll find out what he really thinks tomorrow from 6.30am…

If you fancy joining us tonight, get hold of The Breakfast Club. Stick it on at 6pm. Tweet with us @R1Breakfast and @BBCR1Rhianna. #EducatingGrimmy. Actually quite looking forward to drooling over Judd Nelson’s rebellious John Bender tonight… and no, that’s not a euphemism.