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Teen Spirit is a very well made musical drama. Elle Fanning delivers an excellent lead performance. She shines throughout this film. The supporting cast also does a good job in this film. The film is very well directed by first timer Max Minghella. The film is very stylish, and makes good use of its pop soundtrack. You are never bored during its runtime, even when you know where this film is going. Easily the film's main weaknesses is its storyline. You know where the film is going right from the start. But it's so well done that you can forgive it. Overall, this isn't anything really new, but it's well made enough to keep you entertained.

This movie had so much potential, but the screenwriter did a rushed and awful job. So many side stories on the movie could have been expanded in order to make it rich for our thirsty eyes. The end was so abrupt that made me think that they finished it in a hurry because they were running out of budget. I recommend seeing it but without high expectations, or else you will be disappointed.

I'm writing this to say why all the hate for this film? If you saw the trailer you knew exactly what you were going to get!! A young Polish girl dreams of becoming a pop star and so she enters a X factor type singing contest in the UK called Teen spirit. She befriends an old opera singer at a club she was singing at one night,he offers to become her manager he sees the potential talent she has, and after meeting with her mother and warned off about any shady business obviously worried about how old he is !! They begin their journey together. She tries out for her dream. It's not going to win any Oscars but it basically does what the package said delivers a good soundtrack, and Elle Fanning surprises me with her singing voice it showcases her rather good voice she has. You know where it's going but the film kept me entertained for duration of the film. So just watch it and make your own mind up.

Teen Spirit is that movie which showcases how talented the lead actor is. Elle Fanning was simply brilliant in this movie and there's no doubt that she will be a future star. But the movie is almost it. Just Elle Fanning and a very good soundtracks. The movie is cliche and there's nothing new to it than some good visuals. The characters didn't have any depth apart from Fanning's Violet. Overall, Teen Spirit is watchable for Elle Fanning and the songs.

Not a bad movie... somewhere between 6-7/10. Plot is pretty straight forward. Elle Fanning gives it a boost with her aura (she kind of radiates). To be honest it might not be a good movie without her. At the same time her performances are kind of humdrum, even in the end she seems amateurish. Also it never really explains why her personality is so dreary all the time, but I think this is mostly just Elle's acting (appealing in a way because it sets her apart from other actors). Zlatko gives the best performance though in a supporting role. Worth a watch if you're a fan of Elle or just a fan of offbeat movies.

In this copacetic teen movie, the duo Elle Fanning + Zlatko Buric is certainly unexpected but vigorously endearing. Vlad is going to play the role of a substitute father and a manager for Violet, an uptight teenager who will try to take part in the Teen Spirit singing contest. This will prove to be for herself an unexpected opportunity to leave her small country town polluted by contemptuous rednecks, to become emancipated and eventually to join a completely different world forever, as in a fairy tale.

In addition to the two main actors Elle Fanning and Zlatko Buric, Agnieszka Grochowska and Rebecca Hall are excellent supporting roles. And Teen Spirit (2018) is the very first movie directed by Max Minghella. Therefore, a minimum of indulgence is imperative.

As a synthesis, the actors, the atmosphere, the photography, the soundtrack, ... yes!

Too short, I wanted more character development and fleshing out of the events. Good acting all around. Of course it was a bit cliche (movie about a talent contest and expected outcome- duh!) And was Ms Fanning acting or performing the musical parts? Very impressive. I really enjoyed the music.

I was impressed they took a format that's been done a million times before and made it new, unique and special. Elle Fanning proved she's the real deal and I hope to see her in even bigger and better roles. Great work!

I am glad that Elle Fanning got to showcase her genuine vocal talent in this movie through the character Violet which is rare for most actors in singing roles.

What ruined this movie though was the screen play which was deathly boring and mediocre. I am not the biggest fan of Elle Fanning, but she can do much better than this, had it not been for her this would have been a complete waste.

Prior to watching I was leaning toward one star based on the cheap cover, moronic title, and a theme done many times before, i.e. young singer with big dreams comes out of nowhere w/some obstacles along the way of course. What turned me into a strong supporter? Great acting by Elle, Agnieszka (played the tough mom to humorous perfection), and Zlatko. Great blending of music w/changing scenes. Great camera work & editing. Good choice of songs, many by well known artists. Finally, and no way the least, Elle did the singing. I first thought it was professional voice dubbing based on range, emotive presence, pitch quality, but nope just her. Bonus: Elle watches "The Voice".

I think this movie had so much potential, the cinematography is beautiful, and the camara work has potential, it makes me excited for this filmmaker even though, the screenplay did not have any power tone, is a generic and unmoving story. But honestly it does have powerful performances and beautiful shots.

The first two thirds of the film put me on life support. There was a glimmer of hope near the end, but then the film was over and I realized we never got anywhere. Not satisfying at all and really a waste of time unless you're just a massive Elle Fanning fan.

What makes a good film can be subjective, but a critical concept is that you need proper pacing and contrast between different types of scenes. Nobody wants 60 minutes of the camera pointed at a tree... They tried to put a couple things in, like the scene involving a horse and then some drinking later on, but it was seriously still a bore.

I got a few "Smash" (TV series from 2012) flashbacks while watching this but that was probably just my brain trying to stay awake...

Teen Spirit doesn't try to be something it's not. It provides face-value entertainment for 90 minutes. It's definitely worth watching for Elle Fanning's performance alone.

Acting: 8/10. Fanning is superb (acting, singing and dancing); supporting cast is convincing enough. Plot: 7/10. Good pacing; visual storytelling is favoured over dialogue; average character development; one or two unexpected twists; decent conclusion. Production: 8.5/10. Believable locations, sets, costumes, etc. Soundtrack: 6/10. Notably predictable songs throughout. (Perhaps that was intentional; this is a movie about a pop music contest, after all.)

Overall recommendation: Watch it (once is enough).

Elle Fanning shines in this familiar tale about a poor young woman who dreams of being a singer and joins in on a big time competition. The movie is pretty by the numbers and it can feel a bit hollow at times. What helps is the stylish execution with a unique artistic eye from its director as well as solid performances all around. I do wish there was a bit more substance but what stands is still an entertaining example of the formula and why its explored so much.

"Teen Spirit" (2018 release from the UK; 92 min.) brings the story of violet. As the movie opens, we are told it is "The Isle of Wright, UK". Violet is singing in a pub on open mic night. Exactly one person pays attention, Vlad, who we later learned once was a note at opera singer in Croatia. Violets close knit family (originally from Poland) Wants her to focus on her church choir singing. But when the TV singing talent show Teen Spirit UK comes to town for open auditions, violet grabs her chance. With the help and mentoring from the flat, Violet enters the talent show. At this point we are 10 minutes into the movie, but to tell you more of the plot would spoil your viewing experience, you will just have to see for yourself how it all plays out.

Couple of comments: this film is the writing and directing debut of Max Minghella, best known for his acting roles. Here he brings an all too familiar story, the likes of which we have seen many times before. In essence this is "A Star Is Born", UK teen version. With such utter predictability, you had better have a strong lead performance and enjoyable music. Thankfully the movie deliverance both: veteran actress Ellen Fanning, still on 21, frankly surprises with her confident singing. Anything short of that would have sunk the movie. The music is equally up to the task. Among the highlights are Fanning's performances of "I Was a Fool" (Tegan & Sara), Ellie Goulding's "Lights", Annie Lenox's "Little Bird" and, to top things of, a brand new song written by Carly Rae Jesper, "Wildflowers", playing at the grand finale of the Teen Sprit competition. Also keep your eyes open for Rebecca Hall's small and campy (but delicious) role as Jules, the "brains" behind the singing competition.

"Teen Spirit" premiered at last year's Toronto international film Festival, and it finally received a limited US theatrical release recently. The Saturday early evening screening where I saw this at turned out to be a private screening, as in: I literally was the only person in the theater. A darn shame. If you are in the mood for an entertaining and slick movie about a singing competition that features a strong lead performance from Elle Fanning, I would readily recommend you check this out, be at in the theater (doubtful at this point), on VOD, or eventually on DVD/Blu-ray, and draw your own conclusion.

Teen Spirit is an overall solid film. Elle Fanning stands-out with an amazing performance and a really good voice, the two main leads are well developed and they are relatable, and the music performances are colorful and entertaining. The reason why this movie does not get to higher levels is because of the script: extremely predictable. We have seen this story before, and the direction is nothing to brag about, wasting the potential brought by the interesting characters and the great performances. To summarize, Teen Spirit is what you expect from watching the trailer, but don not expect anything hiding underneath it.

Two minutes don't go by without cliche. I don't know how I managed to survive till the end. Wasted time.

A Polish teenager living day to day on the Isle of Wight, enters a singing contest. Takes most of the plot from the Heroes journey. Shows what modern Britain actually looks like. Don't expect anything too complex, it's all about whether she sticks to path or not. Great combination between the music and the action. Great soundtrack full of electronic artists.

I like Elle very much, but this was a big mistake to accept the part in this movie. Boring role, slow movie, weak story ... a waste of time. Too bad. I gave it a 5 instead of 4 because I'm Elle's fan for some years now.

Another mesmerizing performance by Elle Fanning, as she portrays 17-year-old Violet Valenski, an aspiring singer living with her mother on a farm on the Isle of Wight, UK. Fine performances by Zlatko Butic and Agnieska Grochhowska add much to the film as well.

I see many reviewers disliked the movie, but I found it to be a good combination of strong acting, dramatic tension, music, and even some well placed humor. Yes, the film can be formulaic, at times, but overall I thought it was well worth the watch.

The most solid actor Max Minghella makes his feature film directorial debut here as well as adding his second screenplay, after the powerful "The 9th Life of Louis Drax".

The directorial debut of Max Minghella ("The Social Network"), the film follows protagonist Violet Valenski (Elle Fanning), a socially reclusive young aspiring singer who aims to leave her small European town and step into the spotlight of the world of music. Her mother, Marla (Agnieszka Grochowska), is a resigned and strict single waitress and housewife, who at first does not appear to be open to her daughter's choices. On one of her nights singing karaoke to an audience almost entirely made up of paupers, Violet meets Vlad (Zlatko Buric), a former opera singer - and now alcoholic - who compliments her vocal ability and offers her a ride home. Afraid of approaching him at first, the young woman ends up having to forge a relationship because she needs an adult guardian to accompany her when registering for the Teen Spirit singing competition (original title of the film). Vlad accepts the proposal to accompany her on the condition that he acts as her manager and receives a portion of what she earns if she becomes a success. The premise of the film's central relationships is established there.

Anyone who knows Marius De Vries - who was involved with the soundtracks for "Moulin Rouge (2001)" and "La La Land (2016)" and has long collaborated with artists such as Madonna and Bjork - knows what to expect from a film whose musical production is signed by him. And that's exactly what you find in Teen Spirit: a visual strongly based on the guidelines that established the music video in this century. Its influence, however, is not noticeable in the more discreet moments, when we follow the unhappy routine of Violet (Elle Fanning), a girl who lives in a small village on the Isle of Wright, in the south of England. Since their father left them, only she and her mother live, dividing their time between taking care of the animals on the small farm they own, studying and working as a waitress in a restaurant that few people frequent, but which guarantees her one of the few moments of relaxation. Pleasure of the day, when the karaoke microphone is free and you are allowed to sing for the few customers.

Everything changes, therefore, when the girl lets out her voice. It is at this point that Minghella opens up space for De Vries to do what he does best. Thus, the protagonist's gray world explodes with colors and sensations, recreating famous songs, such as E. T. (by Katy Perry) or Lights (by Ellie Goulding), to adapt to Fanning's vocal tone. Even so, they are isolated passages, in which the film threatens to offer a recharge of energy that is never completed. Much of this is due to Elle Fanning's apathetic portrayal. In the synopsis, her character is described as a "shy teenager", but what is shown on screen is someone without energy or desire. Here she repeats the same look like nothing ever seen in "The Neon Demon (2016)" or "Somewhere (2010)", without, however, a firm hand behind her that has anything to say with such a performance - as before with Nicolas Winding Refn or Sofia Coppola, for example.

The actress performs good vocal work, and represents a slightly apathetic, inexperienced Violet with desires to be awakened. Violet lives in the inertia of a life driven by her mother, who seeks redemption, for a family failure, through religion and hard work. Zlatko Buric is at ease on stage and fulfills his role as mentor and possible father figure to Violet. Rebecca Hall plays Jules, the super producer who is always looking for something new. The script fails a little in not giving further development to the relationship between Violet and Vladimir, the teaching moments are stuck with the cliché phrases of "breath" and "sing with your heart". Another fault is not developing the "rivals" well, since there is competition. And this leaves the film without conflicts and those that appear are easily resolved or worse, forgotten.

On her journey towards success, Violet will have several moments of musical performance which will be stylized in the style of a pop music video. The songs, despite complementing the character's vague emotions - whose interpretation is introspective for the most part - are less a support for the narrative than a break for a show. There is a somewhat episodic structure to the story - as usual in musicals -, which in this case seems to jump from one video clip to the next with a certain contextualization in between. If the stylistic attractions are stripped away, such as the photography that varies between pastel tones in an external scene of a sunset and strong neon lights in a musical sequence or the soundtrack produced along the lines of an authentic pop music hit, the story in itself it is not very moving and does not present a construction that goes far beyond the ordinary.

All conflicts are resolved throughout the story without much hindrance, which weakens the dramatic power of the script. For example, when Violet loses one of the preliminary stages to participate in the Teen Spirit contest, shortly afterwards she discovers that there was a mistake by the judges because the participant who had actually won was cheating because she had already won another contest previously, and could not be participating in this. And this is how all the possible obstacles in the protagonist's path behave, calmly withdrawing after having generated the minimum suspense necessary to drive the narrative. All the conflict and the great weight of the story seems to be located outside of what the film shows us.

The central characters - Violet, her mother and Vlad - all clearly have an embittered past which is not delved into or well situated, but merely established to justify the characters' behavior and foster empathy for them. The question, however, is: what exactly should we empathize with? The drama that the film chose to cut out of these characters' lives and show us does not have the weight it aspires to have, but seems to depend merely on the fact that the people experiencing it have already started this journey broken and traumatized. Once the journey begins, however, it's almost all resolution and good chances. Chance suddenly smiles on them, and allows them to be happy again. As arbitrary as the weakened personalities of these characters is their restoration and reconciliation with each other and with themselves.

Full of loose ends - what did Vlad really want? What is the influence of paternal abandonment on the girl's life? What do the contestants of the contest that will lead her to stardom want and why do they try to sabotage her? - and a constant indecision between embracing the Cinderella tale or betting on its critical potential, Teen Spirit promises a lot, but achieves little. It can be discounted for being a debut feature, but its proximity to another drama with similar ambitions - and much better results - undermines its chances of remaining in the memory of anyone more attentive in the audience. And even the brief excitement that is glimpsed is soon buried by a sequence of clichés and truisms. In its final part, "Teen Spirit" decides to take a safe route, betting on a visual identity of "The Voice" style reality shows. The point outside the curve is in the sequence shot, which shows the journey to the stage, followed by the beautiful performance of "Don't Kill My Vibe", a song by Sigrid, causing the work to end in a stylized climax, which When it gets really good, it's over.

However, if this substance is lacking, the approach makes up for it in objectivity. And in this objectivity, we also find the most subversive choices that Minghella presents in his debut, mainly in the transitions that mark the testing period for Teen Spirit. Cam McLauchlin's editing reaches an almost hypnotic frenzy as it fragments into a series of quick cuts, all dictated by the tempo of the electronic background music, and also establishing a diegetic relationship with what happens on screen - the track E. T., by Kate Perry, undergoes radical reverse engineering to accommodate the young contestants' singing auditions.

Although sporadic, other aesthetic choices efficiently reflect the most impoverished themes in the text. For example, when Violet and Vlad find themselves in front of a television showing a scene of dialogue between a father who asks for forgiveness from his tormented daughter, Minghella takes advantage of the axis of that scene to, in addition to "rhyming" the two situations , establish a dialogue between the characters on TV with the duo in front of her - at the end of the short and discreet scene, the man on the screen asks for forgiveness not only from the daughter he abandoned, but also to Violet, another abandoned one. The film shines on occasions like this, but it limits itself too much to the suggestion in the discussion of abandonment - which weakens the climax in the show.

Again, like a comfort playlist, the formula of "Teen Spirit" never fails to please, but it sounds excessively familiar on its umpteenth replay, and even the good interpretations of Fanning, who even sings almost all the tracks, and Buric, who did their name in the Danish Pusher franchise and here acts against the stereotype, they are given the duty to support typecast characters. Without scratching much beyond the surface, Minghella's debut is a good calling card, especially if he has plans to direct music videos, but leaves his talents as a screenwriter and screenwriter less evident. On the other hand, if Grimes, Robyn and Ellie Goulding's music is to your liking, it won't be a challenge to get carried away.

I love Elle Fanning, but this was bad. The writing was boring and it's impossible to get attached to any character. There were multiple sub plots that started, but they never led anywhere. Honestly, it's not even worth the time watching this. Just watch the "Lights" cover scene and you'll be good.

The songs are good, and the film has a good story. I'm glad she has the opera singer to help her with the contest. It's an enjoyable film.