I have never seen a worse movie.

chimpette

For a tl;dr, I'll put it at the beginning: This movie makes High School Musical and Camp Rock look like Hollywood blockbusters.

I didn't expect it to be good. First, let us compare it to High School Musical - the "original" teen musical movie that Disney created. When HSM came out back in 2006 (or was it 2005? I'm too lazy to check), I thought it would be bad. I wasn't expecting great things at all. However, I was pleasantly surprised when I watched it. HSM 2 was good as well, my family actually watched it together. HSM 3 wasn't as good, but it wasn't bad, and it was a good ending to the series.

Camp Rock was their next attempt. It wasn't as good as HSM, but it was watchable. Camp Rock 2 was monumentally worse than Camp Rock 1, but again, it was still watchable.

I watched this "Teen Beach Movie" on Friday hoping to be pleasantly surprised like some other Disney movies. I was incredibly disappointed.

Terrible acting: the movie exemplifies the "overacting" that Disney is heading towards with their trash TV shows like ANT Farm. Hannah Montana has award-winning acting compared to this trainwreck of a movie. You guys thought Miley over-acts in HM? Well this movie has like 500x worse overacting. It is legitimately painful to watch.

Predictable plot with minimal development: It makes High School Musical look like a Hollywood blockbuster.

Horrible characters: Such bad acting and flat characters. Not fun to watch.

Mediocre music: I was really excited for a Grease-esque feel. I was disappointed. The songs were cheesy and didn't sound good at all.

Bad dancing: It makes the High School musical cast look like professional Broadway dancers. The dancing is so simplistic and bland. That's something that these Disney movies strive for, and it was just trash. For sure they won't be able to make a "dance along" version for this one.

No emotional attachment or feeling: After the movie, I was left with just a sour taste in my mouth. Just a "that sucked" feeling. I didn't feel engaged at all. It was just so stale and bland.

This movie simply felt like a platform for Ross Lynch to promote himself. I can't say enough times how bad it was.

I'm 19 years and male. I still watch High School Musical when it's on. I'll watch Camp Rock if I'm in the mood. But this? This movie was a heaping, steamy pile of trash. Terrible plot, terrible characters, terrible music, and no feelings evoked at all.

Disney has truly fallen into the gutter...

score 1/10

chimpette 21 July 2013

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