Kat and the Band

A great little film, small budget, but that doesn't show. The cast are excellent, with each character clearly defined with no wasted characters or dialogues. The visuals are all good, especially the gig footage when The Band is playing. With a great cameo from Badly Drawn Boy, this film is everything you need for a feel good afternoon or evenings viewing. Kids and adults would enjoy this.

17 year old high schooler Kat Malone (Ella Hunt) is a talker. She lies and cheats to get into the music world. She talks her way into managing Alex and his struggling band, Dollar Days.

The story is rather standard and a little clunky. It does have good original 90's style alternative music. The guys are not breaking out. Ella Hunt is a good actress but she comes off a little too old for the role. She first shows up in the movie all made up towering over her best friend. The effect is that she is obviously playing younger. There are other clunky elements like breaking up with her best friend twice. Once is enough. It would have been nice if her friend does something to make up for their fight instead of the other way around. At the end of the day, this is small indie trying to punch above its weight. It has some good music and that's half the battle.

Really loved this. A young schoolgirl dreams the impossible dream, to manage a cool band (brilliant performance by Dougie Poynter). Has to sneak out from under her mother's nose to make it all happen right in the middle of her A levels. The soundtrack drives the antics (great music tracks). Every teen's fantasy.

The director manages to draw out tear-jerking performances, especially from the beautiful young star Ella Hunt, who flips seamlessly between scruffy schoolgirl and hip band manager.

I do not know who has paid for these 10/10 reviews, clearly friends and family writing them. The story line is lame, music was like something from high school band that has just started out in their garage, whole film is a bloody mess. Did not finish.

Funny to see 10/10 ratings here. There's nobody genuinely rating this as 10/10. The story is unoriginal and uninteresting. The acting from the majority of the cast is appalling. The main actress isn't bad and Dougie isn't too bad. That and the fact that there is a feel good factor to it saves it from being a 1/10 for me but it is instantly forgettable.