Bandslam

This movie is a classic example of teen pulp. Story presents. Story rises. Story conflicts. Story resolves.

I can forgive a lack of character development due to the fact that I have seen Vanessa Hudgens' naked breast, but for the first two-thirds of the movie we are expected to assume too much of skill or general high school human nature.

How is it that so many people in one high school are so musically inclined? Since the film is set in New Jersey, we can only assume from the fact that so many good Indy bands emerge there (in the film) that they should all get record deals. However this film suggests that only one high school band can get a record contract in, what I can only call, a crappy battle of the bands reminiscent of "School Of Rock".

Hudgens steps up near the end and only does so because she feels a strange romantic connection to the strange, almost Jew nose-son of Lisa Kudrow (who by the way gives what I can only call a break out performance [due to circumstance]), and then only does a cover of a song that we understand that she knows because of an all too brief encounter with the Hudgens' character's mother.

They practice under false pretence and lose. Shocker because it makes them better people because of it.

Should we care?

Fuck no.

Worst movie ever...