Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Starstruck [2010]

[Cross-posted on the Bad Movie Night Facebook page.]

It's been a little while since we watched a Disney Original Musical but we're all out of the really famous ones until we get the highly anticipated "Descendents 3" so in the mean time, we'll have to do with a film not successful enough to warrant a sequel: "Starstruck."

The film revolves around two sisters, Sara and Jessica, who go to California for vacation. Sara is the biggest fan of Christopher Wilde, a Bieber-a-like with even less talent, and Jessica couldn't care less about celebrity nonsense. Wilde ends up accidentally smacking Jessica in the head with a steel door outside an Under 21 club and is taken in by her obstinate attitude and her general apathy towards him. He lowkey kidnaps her and then sleeps in her garage (in his car named Cher because that's what heterosexual guys name their cars). All you need to know to explain this is that he's desperate to avoid the paparazzi at any cost because he's trying to get a film role. In spite of this rough night, they go on an adventure together when they run into each other at the beach and he destroys her grandmother's car so she gives him a dressing down about not understanding normal people. The whole thing follows a very expected romance plot that involves play fighting in water, Jessica shaming the paparazzi, and a reunion at a school dance. Occasionally we get a really bad song with all the autotune money can buy.

The film on the whole is pretty unremarkable unless you are trying to study the basics of three act structure screenwriting. There were a few funny moments, particularly the dancing of Sara's best friend at the school dance, but overall this was another movie to add to the list of "made funny by us because we're hilarious even though the movie wasn't."

Quote:
Jessica: Go away!
Sara: No . .  . I live here.

Spoon Rating: 3

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