‘Tall Girl 2’ is Netflix’s Disappointing Valentine’s Day Gift to the World
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, which means it’s time for Netflix to unleash its cheesiest, cringiest teen rom-com fare. In the past, the coveted mid-February release slot has been reserved for the now-ended To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before franchise, one of the streaming giant’s most popular and charming forays into the genre. This year, in its place, we get Tall Girl 2. It’s like Netflix is our crappy boyfriend, giving us wilted roses and chocolates he bought at CVS five minutes before the date.
The follow-up to 2019’s widely mocked Tall Girl, Tall Girl 2 revisits the story of Jodi Kreyman (Ava Michelle), a pretty, talented teen with a loving family and boyfriend whose life would be perfect, if only she weren’t so darn tall.
Years of enduring taunts of “How’s the weather up there?” have made Jodi cripplingly insecure. But at the end of the first film, she unlocks her confidence when her best friend-turned-boyfriend and certified short king, Jack Dunkleman (Griffin Gluck), gives her high heels to wear to the homecoming dance. Tall Girl 2 picks up a semester after that fateful dance where Jodi finally stood up to her bullies. She’s still dating Dunk, as everyone calls him, and it turns out her “fuck the haters” homecoming speech earned her major popularity points.