DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend. It’s the person that is there to make everyone else look better. Reading this, you might think “Well, I am definitely a DUFF.” It’s true, you are a DUFF. Everyone is. Someone will always be better than you, or prettier, or nicer looking. It’s not about drowning in your insecurities, it’s about owning them. Accepting your flaws and learning to be happy with who you are.

The movie DUFF’s protagonist, Bianca, travels through this difficult journey which is set off by her discovery that she is a DUFF. She is used by other guys in order to get into contact with her two very beautiful best friends. She is not acknowledged or known by many people despite the fact that she knows them and they know her best friends. So she breaks it off with her best buddies and turns to her (dare I say it?) really cute next door neighbor who she is absolutely not interested in (we all know where that’s going) in an attempt to correct her DUFF status.

He coaches her through talking with guys and dressing the part, but a problem appears in the form of the typical evil without reason popularly gorgeous girl, Madison. Who also happens to have a very strange on again, off again relationship with the man candy who’s trying to help Bianca, Wesley. Bianca endeavours to improve in order to form a relationship with her crush, Toby. However, Madison catches Bianca during her training trying on clothes at the mall with Wesley. Her confidence boosted, Bianca tries a few, lets say seductive, moves on the mannequins along with some love confession practice with the mannequin as Toby. It doesn’t turn out well. The video of her antics quickly spreads through the school, leaving her quite by herself.

Will Bianca’s love towards Toby prevail? Could Wesley be starting to fall for Bianca? What is Madisons problem? I mean seriously, she is horrible! Anyways, if you really want to find out what happens, you’ll have to watch the movie. It was a pleasure for me to watch, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The modern high school students attachment to technologies, the changing social groups, all integral parts of modern high school life. In fact, I think this could be similar, if more suited to our age, to the movie Mean Girls with quotes like “amazeballs” and “DUFF” becoming as popular as pink on Wednesdays.

4/5 Stars. 

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