Raise Your Voice
I don’t know about you, but the part in Raise Your Voice I loved the best is when Hilary Duff’s character loses the scholarship to that black girl with the violin but says that’s okay because the best part is that she got to go to music camp anyway. She really blew me away with that performance. Ms. Duff shows her considerable acting chops as Terri Fletcher, a young girl from Small Town, USA who spends a summer at a Los Angeles performing arts high school to make it big and forgot a horrible family tragedy. Look out Pia Zadora—Hilary Duff’s on your back!
Except for the plot description, the above paragraph is complete bullshit. You’re view of this film will probably fall into 3 camps: Those of you with dependants at the age and/or IQ of 12, those of you that are at the age and/or IQ of 12, and everyone else. Let’s not kid anyone-this film is made for pre-teens whose rooms are plastered with posters of Lindsay Lohan and who think Good Charlotte are “punk rock.” I have no objection to the philosophy that every age group needs entertainment to call their own. The problem with this film is that every age group doesn’t get entertained—only the young and fluffy ones. Some parents actually had to sit through this film with their children. I could think of about 10 things I would rather do. Here they are:
- Balance my checkbook
- Get a root canal
- Have a Prostate exam
- Wear hot-pink heels at work all day
- Buy the new Shania Twain CD
- Re-elect George W Bush
- Audition for a reality show
- Wax someone’s back hair
- Show my underwear to strangers in the parking lot of a Taco Bell
- Rent the Showgirls Deluxe Edition DVD
Why can’t films like this not suck ass? Why can’t people be entertained AND see a good film at the same time. Why do people have to settle for one of the other? Why did I watch this film? The answer for the last one is simple-I work at a movie theatre. It’s free, and it was there. Other people pay money for this crap. Raise Your Voice is junk food for the masses, and it’s time we all went on a diet. STAY AWAY! STAY AWAY!
Submitted 21 October 04. Posted 22 October 04.
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