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It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Vanessa (Alexa PenaVega) is poor, straight A student and a great soccer player. She's part of the popular crowd with mean girl Nikki and her best friend rich girl Stacey (Leah Pipes). Stacey likes Tony and Vanessa tries to talk up Stacey to him but he likes Vanessa instead. Nikki takes the opportunity to start bullying Vanessa with the rest of the class. The only person on her side is class outcast Emily. Her mother Barbara, who works for Stacey's mother Denise Larson, is helpless and lost.This is a gut-wrenching teen melodrama. There are a couple of turns in the last act that I don't really like. Alexa PenaVega makes this better-than-most teen lesson movie. She has great vulnerability. Stacey seems to be an interesting complicated character. She's set up for some redemption which the movie turns 180 in the end. Emily is the magical negro character. The adults are mostly clueless. PenaVega is able to make this better than the material.

I think they should have dedicated the movie for "all the stupid teens" where you're not stupid because you're teen, only a teen as long as you're stupid. Thus that girl got to discover the fakeness of what was around here, then be brave to face it, get rid of it and move along; so she can grow up and stop being dumb anymore.I loved dealing seriously with a subject that many may consider plain or usual. This sadistic relationships do exist in the adolescents' community. And the movie's biggest victory is portraying "The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls" as the title of the book which the movie was based on. However, what I didn't like at all is that the character of the lead wasn't dumb only, she was so dumb!There was a bit too far exaggeration while showing the lead's naivety; specially her strange ability to believe everything was said to her (to have us commenting all the time "she brought it to herself" !). Well, frankly any girl that got an absolute trust in the one who hurt her the most over and over again is someone deserves all what happens to her ! I felt, for instance at the party scheme, that whether this girl is a masochistic character or the dumbest ever! This point weakened the drama and turned the viewer off, as we were watching very odd girl more than odd girl out !True that the flare-up scene was a perfect climax. But I was having a flare-up of my own over the lead's behaviors up to this event. It was a smart movie, but this characterization permitted a proportion of superfluous melodrama that hit it badly. Adolescent move if you asked me.

On a scale of 1-10, I give this movie a 7. I can't say I enjoyed the film, because this is not a film that you "enjoy". You DO like the movie, but there are times in the movie that make you feel disturbed, depressed, and even nauseous, because of some of the things that Vanessa (Alexa Vega's character) had to go through.I've always liked Alexa Vega (notice how I said "like" and not "love"), especially from the Spy Kids films. I saw her in Sleepover, which wasn't all that good, though I didn't expect anything better.Alexa put on a pretty good performance. The thing I like to look for in a movie with high profile actors/actresses (such as Alexa Vega in this one) is that I hope that I can believe they are their characters, and not just themselves playing the characters, if that makes sense.Her performance as Vanessa was solid, believable, and (I'm sure for some people, myself not included) tear-rendering. I'm a guy, but I know a lot of girls that would cry during this movie.The rest of the cast did a pretty good job too. Leah Pipes seemed like the typical popular girl. Like many popular girls at my school, she talked a lot of trash, yet didn't really mean what she said. In the end, she was the one left alone, and you DON'T feel sorry for her.The biggest surprise for me was the rock-solid performance by Alicia Morton as snooty, wannabe Tiffany. The last time I saw Alicia in anything was several years ago in the Disney remake of Annie, which she wasn't bad at, but I didn't really think about her having been Annie as much as I thought I would. She, like Stacey (Leah Pipes) was very much like the preppy, popular girls at my school.Though she put on an okay performance, Elizabeth Rice, who played Nikki, Stacey's best friend and Vanessa's former friend, stood out the least. Though her acting was convincing, I didn't really think of her character as much when it came to the "mean girls" in the movie.Before I saw this film, my brothers, who had seen it before and didn't especially like it, told me it was like Mean Girls, though more dramatic. If you're looking for a movie like Mean Girls, this is NOT the movie to see. It is NOT funny, for one thing, and it has a very different storyline.If you think you will enjoy the film, you are wrong. You WILL ,like it though. Anybody who has been to high school can relate, whether you are a guy or girl.

I have always been intrigued by the fact that a school in general consists of two separate realities:the more or less controlled environment of the classroom and the unknown reality of what goes on between students once they are not supervised by their teachers. As a former educator myself, I can assure you that life at school for certain young people can be a living hell.Pestering occurs at every level: kindergarten kids who physically threaten their classmates in order to obtain candy, high-school students who desperately seek excuses as to avoid the humiliation and isolation they experience during recreation not to mention the subtle intrigues that occur at a university level."Humans" in general apparently have a genetically determined urge to reinforce their own feelings of self esteem by preying on easy victims. It is therefore of the utmost importance that parents be aware of the cruel reality that often exists in schools and pay close attention to any alarming change in attitude or conduct on the part of their children. "Odd Girl Out", sadly enough, is a brilliant account of events that are closer to reality than one initially would be willing to believe.Very convincing acting by Alexa Vega as the tormented youngster and Lisa Vidal as the anguished mother