This is a bad movie, mostly because of the simple reason that it's an
absolutely horrible written one.
This movie is mostly infamous and hated because of Britney Spears, who
plays the lead role. But really, in all honesty, she is far from the
worse thing about this movie. It's true that she is obviously no
actress but I didn't exactly hated her watching in this and her
performance didn't made me cringe all that badly.
It's a movie that got made at the prime of her musical career, when she
also was still considered to be fresh and innocent. But it does not at
all feel like this movie got specifically written for her. She plays a
character that is quite different from herself and in the movie she
doesn't even sing or dances all that much, which is good news for a lot
of people.
It's true that this movie is a typical chick-flick, so perhaps I'm not
the right person to judge it but I'm still sure that I'm very well able
to recognize a good movie when I see it and this movie just isn't much
good to watch. The entire way the movie got written and progresses is
not only boring and pointless but also lazy and too often doesn't make
enough sense.
I just don't get some of the stuff that this movie does. Britney Spears
is supposed to be an ugly girl, that gets laughed at, at school, which
is laughable in itself. No matter how much you just don't like Britney,
you can't really call her ugly, especially not when you also see her
body as well, which she shows quite a lot in this movie actually. And
for some crazy and never explained reason, 3 girls who used to be best
friends stopped being friends at high school and even somewhat hate
each other go on a road trip together and for some, totally different,
crazy reason they also suddenly are friends again, as if everything
that was shown and told in the movie previously wasn't important and
had even never happened.
Something I also really don't understand; the Britney Spears character
had a nerdy boyfriend (played by Justin Long of course) for 3 years but
as the movie goes along she totally forgets about this and so are its
viewers supposed to do I suppose? Since she hooks up with a totally
different guy, which is something we also are supposed to cheer for.
But what about poor Justin Long Brit? What did he ever do wrong to you.
It just didn't feel right but it's normal for this movie to leave many
loose ends like this and character just keep on changing their behavior
and personalities for no logical reasons, other than it's just being a
very poorly written movie.
The movie really doesn't progress very naturally or pleasantly and
doesn't really wrap things up properly. Just think about it. The 3 main
characters all go on the road trip for a specific reason but for none
of them, it ends up the way they were hoping for. The movie acts as if
it has an happy ending but once you really start thinking about it, you
could wonder to yourself, what exactly is so happy about it.
It's actually amazing to see how many big names appear in this movie.
Granted, that most of them weren't really big names yet at the time,
such as Zoe Saldana and Justin Long but still it makes you wonder how
so many great actors ended up playing in this movie. It's probably all
due to it that this was a Britney Spears vehicle and lots of people
tried to ride in on the success and fame of her. But as it turned out,
this is not exactly a project that any of the people involved with
could be very proud of.
Not exactly the worst movies of all time, not even close honestly but
it still is far from a great or likable enough movie as well.
4/10
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