Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Guitar-8 In the book version, the main character had an older sister. Looks like they made a good call having an older brother instead.Nick Whitaker didn't do much in High School Musical, but it was his turn to shine on Read It and Weep. Gotta love that brown sunburst electric guitar he played (have that same guitar myself, only it's black). But it was heartbreaking that Jamie found his guitar destroyed in half and placed in a trash can.The big surprise was when he played the guitar & sang "I Will Be Around". The kids dancing to that tune, made me laugh, even the principal! When I think of Read It and Weep, I can't get that song out of my head! Good job, Nick Whitaker.
metaphim428 Ya know, when we first started watching this movie I thought, "Hmmm... Interesting premise." A girl, Jamie Bartlett (Kay Panabaker), finds a headband that helps her to have an alter ego "Is" (played by Danielle Panabaker, her older sister.) Using the people she meets at school as characters in her journal, "Is" has many fantastical journeys the when the book is published causes Jamie to have instant success. During one of her classes the cutest guy in school, Marco (played by Chad Broskey) had to read a poem, she instantly falls in love with him.This is when the "typical" aspect of it starts to come out. Once she becomes famous she starts to turn her back on her friends, who consist of two girls and one boy; Connor. (who is also madly in love with Jamie but is too scared to say anything). As it turns out he was the one who wrote the poem that caused Jamie to fall in love with Marco. Now her friends, alienated, start to not like Jamie anymore. But its during one fateful television interview that Jamie inadvertently lets the cat out of the bag when she refers to a character in the book but uses the name of the girl that she based the character on. This causes everyone to turn against Jamie. (Wow, didn't see that one coming) Everyone except Marco. But this is to be expected considering he's the only one who wasn't bashed in the book.Once the truth comes out and and everyone hates her the only person who really sticks up for her is Connor. When everyone else is writing "Letters to the Editor" to the school newspaper hes the only one who writes something good. Recognizing the writing style as the same one that wrote the poem that she loved so much earlier on she believes it to be Marco who wrote it.Flash forward to the big dance. Shes talking to Marco and finds out that he didn't write the poem or the letter to the editor. She finds out it was Connor. She gets called up to the stage to be awarded for something that she had no part of. The decorations for the dance. Her friends and her had originally signed up to do it but once her book became famous she ditched them for her new friends (the cool people). {{Again, typical Disney movie style.}} Anyway, once she gets on stage everyone starts booing her, and she comes to realize what she must do. She apologizes for everything and runs out to catch Connor before he leaves. Its the same formula that is used in many Disney/children's movies. Its quite predictable. However, that being said, I thought it was a very cute and sweet movie.
i-love-jam I felt like this movie was going to be great but it ended up being one of my least favorite movies ever shown on Disney! I do like the plot, but I didn't expect Is to take over Jamie's life and be evil! I'm a big fan of Danielle Panabaker and don't like to see her as an evil character when working with her sister! I also don't think she had a big enough part, and Kay had too big. I don't understand why they would have made this movie sound so perfect and turn out so not! I think that they should have not changed the actors, but maybe had a better script....I just really didn't like it that much at all!!!!!! It's just sad that Disney channel can make awesome TV shows that don't look good until you watch them, but make movies the complete opposite!!!!
americandragonfreak I have to it, this movie was good. Although I didn't expect the poisoning the lemonade.The story is about Jamie (Kay Pannabaker) who accidentally turns her private journal into a book. In the journal, Jamie has things the way she wishes they were. There is Is (Dannielle Pannabaker) who is Jamie's alter ego and she fights "evil", namely Myrna (Allison Scagliotti) who in the real world is Sawyer who is the school bully who harasses Jamie. Jamie becomes really popular to the school, but ends up leaving her friends (Alexandra Krosney, Jason Dolley, and Marquise Brown) out in the cold. Things go from bad to worse when she accidentally slips to the whole world that Myrna is Sawyer and that she based all the other characters on students. The only person who isn't mad at her is Marco (Chad Broskey) who she based Is' hot crush on. In the end, it turns out that Is is not who she seems and Marco is a fake who used Jamie's friend to get by in school. Everyone forgives her, except for Sawyer.This movie was very fun to watch. I'll just say I didn't expect much after Wendy Wu. This was A LOT better than that crap. Although the fact that Marco would turn out to be a jerk was so predictable.
