Shale
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 | | Subject: Prom Sun May 01, 2011 12:14 am | |
| Prom
Movie Blurb by Shale
April 30, 2011
I wasn't really going to the movies this weekend. The big opening was Fast Five and riding a bicycle every day on the streets of Miami doesn't put one in the mood for vehicular mayhem.
However, I'm almost embarrassed to reveal that I went to see Prom, a PG rated Disney formulaic romance set in high school, with a target audience of teen and pre-teen girls. But, I enjoy romantic comedies and I suppose get off vicariously on the high school romances that never happened for me. In fact I don't even know if we had a Prom in my senior year, it was just not on this nerds radar.
Anyhow, I wanted to go to a predictable movie and relax and this movie delivered on both accounts. It was enjoyable and there were no surprises. For this the aggregate critics on Rottentomatoes gave it a 38% rating, while the audiences (made up mostly of teen and pre-teen girls & at least one old man) gave it a 70%, proving that movie critics are not teen girls.
As the formula goes, Nova (Aimee Teegarden) is the high achiever student in charge of putting together the prom. She and her team do a good job but the storage shed where the props are stored burns down a couple weeks before the event, leaving them all that work to redo and everyone having other student things that take priority. Poor Nova is in a lurch.
Luckily, there is a misfit in this school, the bad boy Jesse (Thomas McDonell) who has attitude and rides a motorcycle, dresses in black leather.
Polar Opposites
After several run-ins with the Principal, Jesse is sentenced to help Nova with the Prom or not graduate. Of course there is the initial friction as these two different personalities clash in their philosophy of life.
Forced to Work Together
But guess what? Behind the wall he has created, Jesse turns out to be a stand up guy.
Jesse & Nova Getting Close
Eventually, after the requisite hurdles and falling out our two main protagonists will actually go to the prom.
I guess I enjoy these movies because it lets me reconnect to the teen angst that we all went thru at one time. The hesitancy to approach someone you have feelings for, the conflict of staying true to friends when your interests diverge.
I can assume all the problems the real critics have with this movie but it delivered for me as a charming, uninvolved matinee film that I left feeling happy. Then I rode my bicycle home. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Prom Thu May 05, 2011 8:14 pm | |
| Good review Shale. This movie seems cool. | |
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