“Booksmart” (** out of four) was a scattershot teen comedy about two high-school friends (Kaitlyn Denver and Beanie Feldstein) about to face graduation who come to the sudden realization that they should have played more and had more fun in their high-school years and try to pack four years of fun into one night before they graduate and have to become adults for the first time in their lives. Not bad, with engaging performances from the leads and some occasional laughs, but still film doesn’t cover any ground that wasn’t covered more ruthlessly and cleverly in “Mean Girls” or “Clueless” (in addition to many others). Inauspicious directing debut for Olivia Wilde. Lisa Kudrow (who starred in a much funnier high-school movie “Romy And Michelle’s High School Reunion”) has a token cameo.

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