History YMMV / SierraBurgessIsALoser

* HilariousInHindsight: A character played by Shannon Purser publicly humiliating a character named Veronica by revealing her private secrets and relationships? [[Series/{{Riverdale}} Wouldn't be the first time.]]

** Jamey is a [[NiceGuy genuinely sweet guy]] who gets ''hardcore'' catfished. [[spoiler: He finds out that his girlfriend whom he truly cares for supposedly cheated on him... Only for it to turn out she ''wasn't'' actually the girl he'd been building a relationship with for several weeks and that's he's been lied to and manipulated this whole time. Oh, and he finds this out in ''public'']].

** The film, after the hype about casting teen film veterans like [[Film/SomeKindOfWonderful Lea]] [[Film/BackToTheFuture Thompson]] and [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Alan Ruck]] as Sierra's parents, really wasted potential to build upon their relationship and the disagreements they have regarding their parenting philosophies and about the former's relationship with her daughter, given how one occupies a conventional beauty end of the scale and her daughter deviates from that convention.

* UnfortunateImplications: As [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpUR5IkM50w this review]] points out, the bit where Sierra convinces Veronica to swap places with her, so Jamey thinks he's kissing one girl but is actually making out with the other, easily qualifies as sexual assault. [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Aside from Jamey giving her an extremely mild telling-off later (though this not really about that moment specifically, but rather the whole thing she pulled on him), this transgression is never really acknowledged, and the focus is squarely on how "magical" a moment it was for Sierra.]] [[spoiler:And in the end, Jamey still [[EasilyForgiven forgives]] her, telling her that he is still happy he met her despite the circumstances it happened under, and the two gets together.]]

* FanPreferredCouple: Many fans think that Sierra/Veronica would have been a much more likable and compelling couple than Sierra/Jamey, due to [[LesYay how close]] they end up becoming and the character development that arises from their friendship.

* FanPreferredCouple: Many fans think that Sierra/Veronica would have been a much more likable and compelling couple, due to [[LesYay how close]] they end up becoming and the character development that arises from their friendship.

* {{TearJerker}}: Veronica being mistreated by people she trusted (her family, friends, Sierra, boyfriend Spence, and her friends on the cheer squad). The capper is that she gets her Direct Messages screenshot-ed and broadcast during a football game and then comes her breakdown when getting confronted by Jamey. She is breaking down in tears over being betrayed by someone she learned to trust. Even Dan, who never liked her before, felt bad for her.

* FanPreferredCouple:
** Many fans think that Sierra/Veronica would have been a much more likable and compelling couple, due to [[LesYay how close]] they end up becoming and the character development that arises from their friendship.
** Alternatively, a lot of fans support Veronica/Jamey as a ship, due to their cute chemistry and the widespread opinion that [[DesignatedHero Sierra]] really doesn’t deserve either of them in her life after how she treated them.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Not many people know that the film is a loose modern adaptation of a classic play, Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac, with the characters gender swapped.

** Many fans think that Sierra/Veronica would have been a much more likeable and compelling couple, due to [[LesYay how close]] they end up becoming and the character development that arises from their friendship.

** Jamey is a [[NiceGuy genuinely sweet guy]] who gets ''hardcore'' catfished. [[spoiler: He finds out that his girlfriend whom he truly cares for supposedly cheated on him... Only for it to turn out she ''wasn't'' actually the girl he'd been building a relationship with for several weeks and that's he's been lied to and manipulated this whole time. Oh and he finds this out in ''public'']].

** Jamey is a [[NiceGuy genuinely sweet guy]] who gets ''hardcore'' catfished. [[spoiler: He finds out that his girlfriend whom he truly cares for supposedly cheated on him...only for it to turn out she ''wasn't'' actually the girl he'd been building a relationship with for several weeks and that's he's been lied to and manipulated this whole time. Oh and he finds this out in ''public'']].

** The reveal from Jamey's POV: he fell for a girl he felt he could trust and talk to with and thought she was what he saw, only to find that they were playing imposter. You practically wanted to tell the Coach (who is ushering him back to the game) "Please do!"

** The reveal from Jamey's POV: he fell for a girl he can talk about a lot with and thought she was what he saw, only to find that they were playing imposter. You practically wanted to tell the Coach (who is ushering him back to the game) "Please do!"

* DesignatedHero: Sierra. She goes the extra mile in order to catfish Jamey, even enlisting Veronica in order to kiss him under the pretense he's kissing her, and [[spoiler:she ends up overreacting to a perceived slight, outing the fact that Veronica was dumped by Spence on Instagram, humiliating her in front of the whole school]]. The movie tries to have her make amends with [[spoiler:the song 'Sunflower']], but the movie still tries to play Sierra as the victim/hero. It didn't work for audiences.

* UnfortunateImplications: As [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpUR5IkM50w this review]] points out, when Sierra convinces Veronica to swap place with her, so Jamey unknowingly kisses her, when he thought he was kissing Veronica easily qualifies as sexual assault. [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Aside from Jamey giving her an extremely mild telling-off later (though this not really about that moment specifically, but rather the whole thing she pulled on him), this transgression is never really acknowledged, and the focus is squarely on how "magical" a moment it was for Sierra.]] [[spoiler:And in the end, Jamey still [[EasilyForgiven forgives]] her, telling her that he is still happy he met her despite the circumstances it happened under, and the two gets together.]]

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: We're clearly supposed to root for Sierra, and the movie establishes how she's bullied, insecure about her appearance, and in the shadow of her successful parents. However, this is not nearly enough justification or explanation for the schemes she pulls or she manipulates Jamey and publicly humiliates Veronica; made even worse with how [[spoiler:she is EasilyForgiven by both of them and Dan]] in the end.