The Lizzie McGuire Movie promotes good family values and has no sex, swearing or violence. It's pretty hateful.
TV's Lizzie McGuire, for those lucky enough to have avoided this particular pop phenom, is meant to be 15 years old. She loves clothes and her family, she has good friends, she's not the most popular girl at school and she's a bit of a klutz.
Lizzie isn't perfect, which has endeared her to adolescents.
In The Lizzie McGuire Movie, this young lady goes to Italy for two weeks after graduation from junior high school. In Italy, she meets a pop star named Paolo (Yani Gellman) who approaches Lizzie because she looks exactly like his singing partner, Isabella. Lizzie agrees to impersonate Isabella for some dubious reason or another. When the real Isabella shows up, actress Hilary Duff gets to be doubly annoying in a dual role as both Lizzie and Isabella.
The Lizzie McGuire Movie is an hour and a half of terrifying narcissism, all dressed up with nowhere to go.
There's no real plot. (Lizzie must decide if she wants to stay in Italy and be a pop star or go home to America and her family and friends. Gaggez-moi.) The film is a series of bad sight gags, overacting, music videos, heinous pop and shopping, and all of it meant to be tied together by the cuteness of Hilary Duff. It is fabulously stupid.
But never mind -- because the opinions that count are those of Lizzie McGuire's audience, and Lizzie McGuire's audience loves this movie to pieces.
The Lizzie McGuire Movie, according to some eight and nine-year-old experts we consulted, is probably the greatest movie ever made. It is important to see the movie three more times and get the soundtrack and look forward to the video and phone everybody to tell them how awesome it is.
It is so good. Paolo is so cute. Lizzie is so brave to sing and dance. Her clothes are so amazing. And so on.
There you have it. The Lizzie McGuire Movie is just the thing for all the kids out there who have come to know and love Lizzie McGuire. Anyone looking for a terrific movie the whole family can enjoy is advised to see Holes.
(This film is rated G)
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