Fan Girl

Awful movie!!!!!! No one should waste their time. This movie was a pay check for the actors. Every actor was awful.

We stan Alex Gaskarth, but otherwise this movie was not good. But did anyone really expect it to be?

I remember watching this back when I was in high school because, like probably 90% of its viewers, I heard it had All Time Low in it. And as soon as I even heard the concept, I thought "Oh wow, this is going to be horrible." Because I couldn't stand the quirky, fangirl-y, "emo smol bean" thing that plagued the fanbase of every band I loved, and I knew this movie was just gonna be the embodiment of that. And I was right.

But like I said, I still watched it for Alex, because I can't imagine anyone watched this for any other reason.

Anyway, I just wanted to write this review because some people think this was just an ATL promo, and that is not the truth (they were asked to be on this because the creator's daughter loved them irl). Though I'm no longer in high school, I still love this band and their music, and I just did not want this unfortunate narrative representing them. It would be so unfortunate to have people thinking that they had any actual involvement in this cringe movie outside of just showing up.

Telulah Farrow (Kiernan Shipka) needs to make a movie trailer for her film class so that she can get into film school. She is obsessed with pop star Alex of the band 'All Time Low'. She needs to make the trailer with perpetual senior Darvan to enter a film festival. She has a crush on Charlie and talks in a British accent in front of him.

Kiernan Shipka is an interesting young actress. It's too bad that young stars often get stuck in horrible movies. This is one of those times. It tries so hard to be super hip and wacky fun. Most of it don't work. Kiernan is a charming performer. Meg Ryan is the mother trying too hard. Scott Adsit plays the funny film teacher. I'm sure he got Tina Fey to take the pictures. The writing is so awkward at times that any accidental funny moments seem out of place. It's a weird movie that goes all over the place. I think some experienced rewrites and a better director would figure out how to make a good comedy out of this. This seems slapped together by recent film school graduates.

The film does center around the main character, who happens to be a fan girl. She and I are in the same fandom but I think her whole notice me senpai thing that they have needs to tone down a bit. Our favorite artists/ people do have a busy schedule and may or may not have time for social media.

Pretty good effort. Prequel to gone girl I reckon.