Title: Another Cinderella Story

Genre: Romance/ Dance/ Drama/ Comedy

Directed by: Damon Santostefano

Base on: A Cinderella Story

Music by: John Paesano

Distributed by: Warner Bros. Warner Premiere

Length of Movie: Approximately 1 hour 30 minutes

Language: English

Some of the Character casts:

Selena Gomez – Mary Santiago

Drew Seeley – Joey Parker

Jane Lynch – Dominique Blatt

Jessica Parker Kennedy – Tami, Mary's good friend

Marcus T. Paulk – Dustin/ The Funk

Official Website: http://anothercinderellastory.warnerbros.com

My Rating: 5/10

Plot/ Story line:

To be absolutely frank, I expected A LOT A LOT A LOT from this movie, since I thought 'A Cinderella Story' was really great and sweet, and it never came across my mind that the sequel could be THAT BAD ): I MEAN, WHYYYYYYYYYYY ): Why was it so so bad! IT'S WAY TOO CLICHÉ! 'A Cinderella Story' was a little cliché, but this is way worse ): This movie is a total 'Touch-and-Go' kind! IT NEVER EVEN FOCUSED ON A SPECIFIC THEME! I thought it was a musical, but there were SO FEW SINGING SCENES, unlike High School Musical. Then I thought it was a dancing kind of movie, like 'Step Up' and 'Take the Lead', but please la, the dance moves weren't that impressive. THEN I thought there would be a nice sweet romance story line, but the romance was UNREALISTIC! I mean, even though it is possible for someone to like another because of his/her super cool dancing, but YOU DON'T FALL IN LOVE BECAUSE OF THAT. I stress the part FALL IN LOVE. How can this be called love????

Of course, I give credit to those cute scenes between Joey and Mary such as the cleaning up of the house together and the 'playing guitar' scenes in Mary's room. But other than that, there's really nothing much. The sisters are as dumb as ever, the Step-mother is as evil and cruel as ever. There's an introduction of the other girl though, which made a little impact on the story line, but the impact was DAMN EXPECTED. Aiya whatever it is, I already could figure the ending of this movie when watching the middle part of it. I just finish watching it because I wanted to give a proper review on it. (SPOILER) Please la, if Mary doesn't win the competition, then who will? So expected :/ (END OF SPOILER)

Oh, I'm glad that showed more on the Step-Mother's character, in this case is Dominique. She really spiced up the movie a little and it was because of her stupid and ridiculous actions that make this movie rather comical. Oh not to forget her bimbotic daughters, I don't even remember their names, they were really dumb blondes, a serious disgrace to the blondes in the world. They portrayed blondes in a very negative way that I just shiver in disgust.

Overall, IT REALLY COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER ): But I'll still pass it because of the 'a bit' sweet scenes between Joey and Mary. (There were so few of such scenes too!)

Screen and Sound Effects:

Let me talk about the sound effects first because this movie has rather nice soundtracks. I think the song "Tell me Something I Don't Know" is really quite catchy and nice to hear, seriously! I mean, of course there are other songs which are also rather nice to hear la, but I was most attracted to this particular job. Sound effects were not bad, but there were times I felt that the song sounded as if it was just meant to be heard in the background, some songs were just not emphasised and highlighted enough. As I've said earlier, this movie really didn't focus on the dance, singing and plot areas, so the songs seemed sort of neglected :/ Oh wells, I don't know. It could have been better.

Screen effects were so-so. I think the house is really nice and big! Though the interior of the house is not cosy enough :/ Whatever, I'm not interested on how the interior of the house is anyway. The sceneries were so-so too, I mean what do you expect from a movie which 'touches and goes'? No offense, seriously. Just speaking my mind.

Characters:

OKAY CHARACTERS!

Two more impressionable characters are Dominique (which is Mary's Step-mother) and Tami (Mary's good friend)

Dominique's some old pop star that doesn't seem to be popular anymore, and she treats Mary like dirt (Okay duh, because this is suppose to be similar to the fairy tale Cinderella). But I think Dominique is really funny because she tries all ways to gain back her fame (which I have no idea how she got in the first place) and behaves HORRENDOUSLY in public, like dozing off in a Dance Competition with her mouth wide open. AND NOT TO FORGET HER HORRIBLE DRESS SENSE. I'm a total noob at fashion but I can already tell she really needs to be told what can be worn at her age. LOL but she brought the laughs to the show. I really couldn't stand how evil she was to spin a lie about Mary so naturally as though it was no big deal.

I think Mary should be thankful for having such a great friend like Tami. I really love Tami's straight forward and daring character! She does what she pleases and she doesn't care what others say of her, including her strange dress sense, such as wearing a TuTu to school. She really stands up for her friend Mary and really helps Mary whenever possible. She's really a great friend (:

And I think Selena Gomez looks really cute (: She looks like some small girl la! I can't believe she was the voice actress for the 99 daughters in 'Horton Hears a Who!' Haha so cute.

Most memorable line/ scene:

The first few scenes where Mary was in the other dancing room next to Joey's dancing room, and they were both putting their hands on the mirror.

Maybe I should put a picture here instead.

Yeah that scene. I was like, wow, can they feel each other's presence across that mirror?

I would recommend it to:

Those who are rather bored but would like to watch a little romance. Not worth the money for theatre tickets, but worth the rental of DVD/VCD and perhaps even worth the buying of the DVD/VCD (Let's just hope that you will like this movie)

Credits:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Cinderella_Story

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