Bad Hair Day

Right, well I have to be honest and say that I harbored zero expectations to the 2015 movie "Bad Hair Day" when I sat down to watch it. Sure, I had never heard about it, but it being a family comedy movie from Disney didn't really get my hopes up. Yet, I opted to watch the movie, as I had never heard about it, and thus gave it a fair chance.

And color me impressed and entertained. Writers Matt Eddy, Billy Eddy, Eric M. Gardner and Steven H. Wilson actually put together a script and storyline that catered to both a young adult and adult audience at the same time. I was genuinely surprised with the contents of the script, and how entertaining and enjoyable it actually was.

I was not familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, but I will say that leading actresses Laura Marano and Leigh-Allyn Baker carried the movie quite well. I was especially impressed with Leigh-Allyn Baker's performance as the character Liz, because she made me laugh a lot throughout the course of the movie.

"Bad Hair Day" turned out to be an enjoyable and watchable movie, and not the childish rubbish that I was expecting from Disney. And I will say that the movie is actually well-worth checking out. I was genuinely and wholeheartedly entertained throughout the course of the 87 minutes that the movie ran for.

My rating of director Erik Canuel's 2015 movie "Bad Hair Day" lands on a six out of ten stars.

It may sound a little misogynistic, but I love little girls' films, female subjects interest me, mother and daughter relationship, here everything is very cute, portrayed in a light, fun and intelligent way... With an investigative, comical, exaggeratedly silly touch, but totally passionate...

I thought this movie was actually pretty good. The acting was amazing and I enjoyed the storyline. Not much to say about this but pretty good!

More alphabetical trawling of the Disney Plus app lands me on Disney Channel Original Movie "Bad Hair Day" - which despite the pretty horrible title and poster was actually alright. (relatively speaking).

On the day of prom, technical whizzkid Monica (Laura Marano) discovers that her hair has reacted to the various products she's put in it, her dress has melted, and her shoes have broken. Before she can set about fixing these issues and becoming the prom queen her polling data suggests she'll be - a former police detective, Liz (Leigh-Allyn Baker) knocks on her door and enquires about a piece of costume duty that she owns. Monica agrees to hand over the jewellery, but only if Liz provides her with a lift for the day, to sort out her problems before prom.

So, this is 'alright' in the sense I was anticipating an unwatchable disaster. That it makes sense (kind of) and actually has a story is, in that case, a big plus. It's a slight story admittedly and one that relies on the odd contrivance to get through it, but I've sat through a lot worse. The other thing that makes it watchable is that both the leads are good and that their chemistry together really works. It's a massively familiar relationship, obviously. An unlikely antagonistic relationship, where the pair bond across the day and with a threat to both of them and end up almost as mother and daughter. Their pairing makes it work, I think you could have made exactly the same script with two different actresses and it wouldn't have worked half as well as it does. I also quite liked that Monica was both the preppy prom queen fashionista and a tech nerd with an offer from MIT, whereas previously I suspect many films would have separated them into lead and "friend" roles.

I mean, we're still only talking that it's good relative to other DCOM's that Disney Plus has forced me to watch, not that it's actually good. It's pretty cheap looking and has some questionable acting from some of the supporting cast.

I wouldn't recommend you hunted it down, but if, for some reason, you had to watch an original Disney Channel movie, you can do a lot worse.

In this story a girl, Monica's hair, dress and shoes are ruined for the prom. The only thing not ruined is a necklace which she bought from a pawn shop. Monica meets a woman, Liz who wants the necklace which Monica has. I think this is a very funny movie. I wanted second part of this movie. I think everyone should go for it.