Movie Review: Everything, Everything

Everything, Everything (2017)
Starring: Nick Robinson, Amandla Stenberg, Anika Noni Rose
Director: Stella Meghie
Release Date: 19 May 2017
Rating: PG-13
Run Time: 1:36
Movie Type: Drama, Romance

A 17 year old girl named Madeline Whittier has a rare disease that causes her to have to stay indoors 24/7 with her filtered air. Her whole life is basically books, her mom, and Carla (her nurse). One day, a moving truck pulls in next door. There she sees Olly. Olly Bright is Maddy’s new neighbor. They get to know each other through emails. The more they get to know each other, the more they fall in love. Olly starts to make Maddy realize that she isn’t really living. This starts the adventures of Maddy’s new life.

Brenna wanted to watch this movie so in one of our weekends where we had nothing going on, we watched it. Now, I should preface this review by saying that I didn’t read the book so I won’t be comparing the book to the movie or anything like that. This is strictly my thoughts on the movie. I should also preface this review by saying that I wasn’t all that interested in watching it but I did because Brenna wanted to.

So this is another a book that was turned into a movie and the book version of this story was written by Nicola Yoon. The book has gotten some great reviews from bloggers all over so I went into this movie thinking that I would love it and while I enjoyed it, I didn’t love it.

The movie is about a young girl named Maddy who has a disease that keeps her inside her home at all hours of the day. Leaving the sanctuary of her home and its filtered air is dangerous to her life so she stays inside with her nurse and her mother, the only two people she interacts with all day. Maddy wishes that things were different but she deals with it because what else could she do? When Olly moves into the house next door to her, Maddy is intrigued.

Olly is a cute boy and when they become friends, Maddy’s life is forever changed. Her desire to live outside o her home are increased and as I mentioned a little bit ago, that’s dangerous to her life. But seeing Maddy fall deeper and deeper in love with Olly was sweet and seeing how much Olly cared for Maddy was equally sweet but I don’t know, there were things in here, things that Maddy and Olly did together that the Mom in me rolled my eyes over.

While there were a few things that had my Mom meter beeping, the biggest one was their trip to Hawaii. The way that they pulled that off without a hitch made me laugh out loud and because of that, my enjoyment of the movie suffered. So while there were things I didn’t care for, I still enjoyed both Maddy and Olly’s character and I thought their acting skills were great. Brenna says that if I weren’t thinking so hard about stuff that are no big deal to younger people, I would have enjoyed the movie more.

This movie was good and I’m interested in reading the book still so that’s saying something. Brenna loved this movie so I think it’ll go over better with the younger audiences.

Movie Trailer

My Rating

3 out of 5