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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.

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!

A teen looking for approval and a disgraced cop are forced to work together to recover a missing necklace, catch a notorious jewel thief and save this cop's job. Laura Marano of Austin&Ally and Leigh-Alyn Baker of Good Luck Charlie make the unlikely partners in Bad Hair Day. By the way said day is also the day of the senior prom where Marano desperately wants to be prom queen.

This film is the first of Disney's offerings to its teen and adolescent market. Laura Marano is not too different from her Austin&Ally character of a good kid who wants approval be it audience or peer. As for Baker she's got some good comic ability in her which was often on display in Good Luck Charlie.

Christian Campbell plays the international jewel thief and he looks like he was having a good time taking small bites from the furniture. One thing totally spoiled it for me. The story has Campbell losing possession of the valuable necklace that Baker was supposed to be guarding and Marano winds up with in a roundabout fashion. It gets to her because someone pawned it. I have to tell you that when that necklace came to the pawn shop it must have been one stupid pawnbroker who got it. I can't believe he thought it was costume jewelry and let Marano have it. In real life he'd either go broke or be laughed out of the business.

Still sub par though it is Bad Hair Day has its amusing moments.

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...

Monica (Laura Marano) is a high school senior. She uses social media and her programming skills to be popular in her quest to be prom queen. Her day starts with bad hair after a full day of hair poll. Private investigator Liz (Leigh-Allyn Baker) comes looking for an antique neckless which Monica had bought from a pawn shop. Monica is willing to trade it for a driver.

Neither of the characters are appealing. They try to be a funny duo and sometimes their bickering hits a good spot. The mother daughter bit is kind of funny. I wish for a better setup. With a different premise, this duo could work. It's a slightly above average Disney TV.