DVD Times (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
News: Paramount Home Entertainment have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging on 8th December 2008 priced at £15.99 RRP. This coming-of-age tale based on the books by Louise Rennison is directed by Gurinder Chadha. The...
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
It's an old story that has roomfor improvement only if you can get the voice right. Louise Rennison, the best-selling author of the books on which Gurinder Chadha's film is based, has succeeded by investing Georgia with a canny mix of despair, jokes and self-deprecation but this tone of preternatural world-weariness loses a lot in translation. Just as Bridget Jones seemed much dippier...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
ANGUS, Thongs & Perfect Snogging is not your usual teen comedy.Directed by Gurinder Chadha who has filmed Bend it Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice - Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging is based on the best-selling series of books by UK author Louise Rennison. Adapted to the big screen by Chadha, it is a funny coming-of-age story about a quirky 14-year-old girl named Georgia. Living the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
From a new Paddington book to Dinah Capparucci's Aliens Don't Eat Dog Food and Louise Rennison's Stop in the Name of Pants! judges promised that every title on the shortlists was "properly tears-in-eyes, wheezing, sneezing, snorting funny". Frank Cottrell Boyce's Cosmic, shortlisted for the older children's award, has also made the final four in the Guardian's children's fiction prize....
Moco News (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Paramount Pictures is adding another feather to its mobile cap with a series of comics based on films from its catalog. Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, a movie based on a series of books by Louise Rennison, is the first mobile comic set for release. All of the comics will be co-developed with Omnitoons in a "Manga style" for three different formats: single-panel comics, four screens...
