Written by Shonda Rhimes, this is a Britney Spears vehicle - hey, it's a road movie, so that's unintentionally appropriate! Brit, with Zoe Saldana and another girl whose name I've already forgotten, make a time capsule to open at high school graduation, but they've drifted apart since then. Still, they get together and then all decide to drive across the country to California for different reasons - for an audition, to meet a long-lost mother, for... a boyfriend? (really, that third girl is completely forgettable); one of them's pregnant. The music is, of course, Britney, plus "Bowling for Soup" and a couple of others. They pick up a guy who they briefly think might be a psycho before one of them falls in love with him. Britney's not a great actress, the film is contrived and predictable and there's nothing for anyone not a teenage Spears fan, of whom there can't be any anymore. It's better than some other pop-star-trying-to-do-the-Elvis-movie-thing, but nothing remarkable.
Correction... it was directed by Tamra Davis and written by Shonda Rhimes.
ReplyDeleteArrgh! Thx for the correction. I give credit to writers so rarely that, even when I try, I mis-type it. I honestly thought I'd typed "written by."
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