According to her there are three ways to achieve popularity: “to be a cheerleader, to work at Abercrombie, and to let guys go in the back door.” Sadly, after Steph wakes up and returns to her old high school in order to graduate, it turns out the cheerleading team has such a flat structure they don’t even jump and wiggle anymore, instead lecturing the audience in rhyming couplets and tracksuits and while not everyone is a winner every cheerleader is a captain. Steph’s dream, held on to tightly through her big sleep, is to be Prom Queen, from which a perfect life will inevitably follow. And there’s a happy ever after, though perhaps not for quite the story Steph was originally hoping for. Like most movie fairytales, our heroine is blonde and pretty.
This is a fairytale of sorts, with a sleeping princess and a hot hunk to wake her (actually a local TV ad featuring high school boyfriend Blaine Balbo and his Hummer showroom). What the slut! Going from desperate Insta Likes-chaser to putting the woke into woke-up, Stephanie (Rebel Wilson) has quite the journey after being roused from her two-decade coma, even though she never leaves her home town. A cheerleader wakes up from a 20 year coma and goes back to school.
