Picture This!
I feel the need to talk about Picture This...my brother and I watched it last night, and it was...interesting.
Thoughts are behind the cut.
-Ashley Tisdale executive produced it. Sweet. You go, girl!
-For the first half hour, I couldn't tell if the main character's name was Mandy or Andy. Maybe it was just my speakers, but this bugged me. Especially because Robbie's character had a cat named Andy. So I wasn't sure if he named the cat after her, or if they just had similar names. That was a bad decision on the writers' part.
-Seeing Lauren Collins and Shenae Grimes playing best friends was really fun. They were fantastic, and I didn't see hints of Paige, Kendra, or Darcy at all. Though I find it kind of weird that Degrassi's two rape victims encourage Mandy to go upstairs with a guy at a party. Especially after they spent half the movie talking about how the guy is slime. Continuity problems were a big issue for this movie.
-Robbie Amell? Not so orange. Not so waxy. Still kind of clueless. But we got some very nice shots of him coming out of a pool in his swimsuit. And he played a good, nice, solid guy (albeit with stalkerish tendencies. But he was creepy in a cute way).
-What is it with Disney and thinking girls need to take off their glasses to be desirable? It's not true, and it's awfully shallow. First, The Princess Diaries. Then Celeste in the City. Now this. Girl gets contacts, girl becomes hot. Dan Schneider gets major points for having Logan put Quinn's glasses back ON before kissing her. (Which begs the question, is this a Disney vs. Nickelodeon thing? It happened in She's All That, too. So is it just a Hollywood thing?)
-Some parts were very, very funny. We were actually laughing aloud (for example, Mandy has to trick her father into thinking she's at Lauren Collins' house studying, when she's really at a club performing. So she tells him she's watching a DVD, and puts her video phone on the audience, who's dancing. Then the father asks her to pause the DVD, and all the dancers stop and hold their poses). Other parts made no sense. Such as the rushed, WTF ending. I have a feeling the editors were just like, who needs exposition or explanation, let's get to the kiss! (Was it really a surprise that she'd get the guy in the end?)
-Overall it was a cute, somewhat entertaining television movie. But if Ashley wants to start making it big outside the Disney bubble, she better start picking good material.