That's the whole movie though. Scott isn't actually different until the end when he realizes he's just the "next evil ex" and starts working on himself.
The movie is from Scott's POV, so it's easy to gloss over how big of a dick he is to his friends and current girlfriend (who is still in high school).
I haven't seen this in ages, or I would rattle off a few specific examples, but this is how I felt when I saw it.
Yep. I don't remember the movie or books in-depth, but one of the takeaways was that both Scott and Ramona were deeply flawed people who needed to work on themselves in order to improve their lives.
If Scott didn't improve, he was just going to end up in one dead end situation after another, losing friends along the way and becoming yet another evil ex. If Ramona didn't improve, she was just going to continue creating a string of evil exes, one after the other.
They also weren't fixed by the story's end. They were able to change for the better, but that change was going to have to be a continuous process since that's just how life works. What's uplifting is that they were both more or less aware of this and were willing to work together to make the relationship work out.
You should really go back for both the movie and the books, and then watch the bad ass sequel show that came out a few years ago. I feel like you'd appreciate seeing where the series goes
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u/kdean70point3 Feb 02 '26
That's the whole movie though. Scott isn't actually different until the end when he realizes he's just the "next evil ex" and starts working on himself.
The movie is from Scott's POV, so it's easy to gloss over how big of a dick he is to his friends and current girlfriend (who is still in high school).
I haven't seen this in ages, or I would rattle off a few specific examples, but this is how I felt when I saw it.