watcherofthemovingpicturebox's reviews

Instead of listening to the fans they really want were like yeah let's make some bizarre Halloween movie with a lame plot and bunch of Michael Jackson references and music throughout. I honestly don't know what happened in this movie... I don't understand.

This show didn't come out until I was out of high school and that's when I started watching it, and it instantly brought out my inner 13 y/o. I fell in love with the show from the first episode; it's very good and well done. There is a lot difficult topics that this show covers in a good way so that kids can understand.

When I started watching this show, I realized this was the very first time in my life where I felt racially and ethnically represented in any media. All of a sudden, I could relate to a main character like I never have before. And I didn't realize how much I needed that until I started watching this. Growing up in America, as someone who is part white and Chinese and experienced both cultures meshed together, sometimes, I felt like an outsider. There wasn't other people like me that I knew or saw in media. But then Andi Mack comes along, and I don't know how to describe it, but it felt good to be able to see myself in a character.

Also there was another character that hit home for me. He experiences anxiety and they portray it really well; what it is like to feel that. In middle school I didn't know that's what I was going through or that's what it was called.

The main theme of this show is growth and change. That's ok to go out of your comfort zone and that change can be good, even though that it's hard. When I was 13, I didn't know that and that's something I needed to start learning. That's good lesson to start learning young, and this show does a good job of showing that.

The one thing I didn't like as much about the show, is that they seemed to focus a little too much on these middle schoolers dating. Maybe things have changed in the last few years since I was in middle school, but I don't remember that really being the focus of most kids at that age. Some kids were dating but it seemed most kids had more of a focus on just having fun and being with friends.

I have to compare this to the book right here. And the book was 12x better. This movie ruined a perfectly good book. Just changed and left out things that were important to the plot, making the movie a simple romance when it could have been SO MUCH MORE. I wanted Ponytail Daniel. Did I get him? NO. The ending in the book was beautiful, what did we get here? An oh-let's-end-the-movie-now kind of ending. Sure, go watch this if you want to waste 2 hours of your life, because you have no life. Man, the movie had such potential to be better.

So when I saw the description and trailer on Netflix, I was like, that sounds like an Episode story I read. Then I watched it I'm into those kind of stories, and it did basically have the same plot as that Episode story, with a few minor detail changes. But this movie was better. Music. Pretty people. Character development. Solid ending. And I loved, loved Jodi's outfit at the end.

This was a terrible movie, no one and convince me otherwise. Over hyped and with a poor storyline. There were some good moments and scenes, sure. But overall? No. Just no.

I could watch this show again and again and not get bored. I enjoy. Where as the movies, I would probably not watch again.

I saw how the overall rating wasn't that great and the subject matter of teen pregnancy, and thought this would probably be a terrible movie, and decided to watch it any way. I was surprised how great it turned out. This is dramatic, but it is the kind I like, where what happens is believable. I thought the main characters did a great job acting. In the description it calls this a comedy, I feel this is not an apt description. If you are looking for a romantic comedy, this isn't it.

Overall, I liked it. I think there was a good message portrayed. It's one of those feel-good kinda movies. But, um, what up with the fake southern accents? I live in Texas, I have lived in Texas my entire life, from experience I can tell you we do not have southern accents, even fake ones. So that part of the movie confused me, and felt very culturally inaccurate. Maybe some research could have been done in the accent department. Also never knew what a drag queen was before this movie... I think Millie was the best character in the movie.