The wickedly acerbic high school comedy "Do Revenge" is too witty for its own good by at least half and overbearingly, practically nauseatingly extra, but writer-director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson ("Someone Great") is able to turn those potential negatives into superpowers.
Yes, it's like "Clueless," "Mean Girls," "Jawbreaker," "10 Things I Hate About You" and just about every other teen comedy from the '90s onward, cranked to 50 and jacked up on steroids, but Robinson knows that and acknowledges it from the jump. The result is a catty, whip-smart good time that dares you to keep up with it, if you can.
"Riverdale's" Camila Mendes stars as Drea Torres, a classic popular girl-type at her Miami high school, with a twist: unlike her peers, she's poor and has worked her tail off throughout school in order to achieve her dream of going to Yale. Her dreams disappear in an instant after a nude video of her is leaked to the student body by her smarmy boyfriend, Max (Austin Abrams), and she wants to make him pay.
