I can’t explain why I put this in my queue. It’s an ABC Family movie, so it’s especially clean, it’s aimed at pre-teen girls, and the odds of it having any redeeming characteristics are pretty slim.
Somehow, this movie pulled off being non-offensive. There wasn’t anything painfully dumb, and it managed to use an ending that I didn’t see coming. Even more remarkable was that I thought the script was unaware of what it was doing until it corrected things close to the end. The good girl takes too much influence from the popular girl, and she starts being a jerk. I thought that the script was more accepting of this, and was treating it just as harmless fun, and it was nice to see it addressed by the ending.
I’d like to talk a little about the music in these movies. Not this one in particular, but also things like Camp Rock. Stuff that’s supposed to appeal to pre-teen girls. There’s a rock edge to these songs, but the singing is annoying. It’s a style, but it’s a very strange one, since it doesn’t seem to be represented in popular music. The music seems to function as a gateway between typical Disney fare and pop charts music.
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