The Lizzie McGuire Movie

I rented this movie instead of seeing it in the theaters, because I expected a simple little teen romance film. It has romance, but it had a surprisingly better story than I expected. I actually, went back and watched the final sequences over again. The movie appears a straight forward and pleasant film until just before the end when you get hit by a very unexpected twist. I'm old enough to play Lizzie's dad and yet throughly enjoyed this film, it's not just a teen date film.

Lizzie McGuire is exactly what you go to see. Corny fun that you don't want anyone else to know you enjoy. If you have kids then you have an excuse to go and if you're a woman you can get away with it. All men over fifteen attending will be labeled perverts! :P Lizzie is a very fun movie for the whole family. It was made doubly enjoyable by the fact that the little girls behind me cheered when Lizzie shared her final kiss of the movie (I won't give away who she kissed). If you're excpecting a masterpiece you're delusional. Lizze is exactly what its supposed to be....Fun Fluff. 10/10 because it did what it set out to do!

I tend to be pretty forgiving when it comes to movies. I feel that worst-of-the-year lists and other such things are usually not reasonable. Quite often I find that movies which certainly are bad, but not direct-to-video bad or home-movie bad, end up on such lists unfairly. I find that anything with high production values usually have some saving graces, be it good acting, good directing, nice sets, or something else, that saves it from ending up on my "worst" list. None of the above applies to "The Lizzie McGuire Movie" however. This movie is one of the most vapid pieces of trash I've ever had the misfortune of watching. I can accept a corny and implausable plot just fine if everything else gels together. Here it doesn't. The movie is littered with montages of Lizzie being escorted around Rome with a huge goofy grin on her face, giggling every half-second. No human being would actually react like that. Not even a 14 year old girl on her first trip abroad. And add to that the fact that these montages did nothing to further the story. They were just mere fluff to lengthen the movie and therefore also lengthened my misery. For which I hate them even more. Add to that one of the most predictable "plot twists" of recent memory, so the audience wasn't even permitted the slight thrill of being surprised at what was happening on screen. And then there's obviously all the glaring plot holes, such as Lizzie's version of Isabella not knowing how to speak Italian and all other Italians accepting that at face value and responding in English. Or the completely un-rehearsed but obviously over coreographed dance number. As I said above, I could accept these things if the rest of the movie had some merit to it. Sadly, here it just adds to further dragging it down. In conclusion I'd like to say that this was the first movie in a really long time were I was p***ed off at how bad it was and how much time I wasted. "The Lizzie McGuire Movie" is not worth seeing in the theatre, on video or TV. It's not worth seeing, period. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Stay away for your own sake. 1/10

I got trapped on a bus in Mexico watching this trash. I could shut my eyes but could not shut out the sound. What's wrong with the Lizzie McGuire movie? The awful title, the songs completely unmemorable except for the lousy lyrics, annoying performances by American actors badly feigning foreign accents, a script as predictable and unbelievable as a cure-all medicine label, a star drowning in CUTE. Disney spent a lot of money on this hokum and they deserved to be laughed off the planet. I realize that this film was not made for people in my age bracket, but if 14-year-old kids really liked it, I despair for the aesthetic future of the human race.

This movie isn't exactly what I would call a "blockbuster". Although it has it's moments, there's just too much bad that takes away from the good. Alex Borstein is a little much for her character. A lady with the name of "Ungermeyer" would be expected to be a little more conservative and a different type of strict. Alex is just all in your face, and it's hard to focus on her dialogue. Hilary Duff is better as Isabella than she is as Lizzie, which is weird considering the title is "The Lizzie McGuire Movie". Hilary just ends up putting too much of the "poor me, i'm in Rome, and I have everything!" act on. She doesn't keep her mentality of the normal teenager like she did in the series. She was disappointing to me in this movie. Yani Gellman in the role of Paulo was totally off base. He tried too hard to be one of those guys who are like "My English, she is not so good", and yet it was perfect. Two good points I have is the soundtrack, which complimented the teeny-bopper atmosphere, and that they didn't have Lalaine in this movie.

This is a really charming little movie about a girl who travels with her class to Rome, and becomes a rockstar there because she looks so much like another rockstar there (who is played by the same actress). The main story is mostly harmless, but it contains a lot of funny characters. I absolutely loved it and in fact already watched it twice, and if it stays in cinema a little bit, I might even watch it another time.