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Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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dovercourtnews Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen looks like a very over-produced film (every scene features loud bright colours, neon lights, heavy costume design..etc)and the scene where Lola and Carla (Megan Fox) are sitting in the auditorium features heavy blurring, thereby making the scene a tad jarring. I did think that Lohan, Garcia and Kane gave solid performances even if the latter two didn't get as much screen time.The film is far from the worst ever made, but it is definitely one of Lohan's weaker films, especially compared to the likes of "Freaky Friday" and "Mean girls". I don't think the film is terrible per say just a little boring and very predictable. It was clearly a good children's book, just not compelling enough a story for filming. One for younger girls I'm afraid.

James Hitchcock The central character of this film is Mary Cep (who prefers to be called Lola), a New York schoolgirl who is horrified when her mother decides to move the family to the New Jersey suburbs. (I wonder if the choice of the name "Lola" was inspired by Lindsay Lohan's own "Li-Lo" nickname). For Lola her native city is the cultural centre of the universe, and New Jersey is spiritually dead. To make things worse, the rather Bohemian Cep family are not made particularly welcome by their staid and conventional new neighbours, who disapprove of their lifestyle and of the fact that Lola's mother is a divorcée. (This detail did not really ring true. Surely these days divorce is nearly as common in conservative suburbia as it is among the artistic intelligentsia).The film is a standard high school comedy, with three main strands to the plot. One deals with Lola's attempts to attend a rock concert with her strait-laced friend Ella and to meet her favourite rock star, Stu Wolfe. Another deals with the staging of a school musical based upon Shaw's "Pygmalion", in which Lola takes the role of Eliza. (This is not Lerner and Loewe's "My Fair Lady" but a rock version which transfers the action to modern-day New York). The third deals with Lola's romance with a handsome boy named Sam. A theme running throughout is the rivalry between Lola and Carla Santini, the beautiful but snobbish and bitchy daughter of a wealthy lawyer. (The glamorous class bitch is a recurrent character in high school dramas).There are some similarities with "Get Over It", another film set around the staging of a high school musical. (I must admit that I have never seen either of the "High School Musical" films themselves). The main difference is that "Get Over It" is a romantic comedy, which just happens to be set in a high school, and in which the male characters are as important as the female ones, whereas "Confessions…." is a high school comedy which just happens to feature romance as one of its elements, and not the most important element at that. (The Sam sub-plot occupies considerably less time than the other two, and the emphasis is very much on the female characters rather than the male ones).Until I saw this film recently I was only aware of Lindsay Lohan as a name in the gossip columns, the latest official Drama Queen of American showbiz, rather than as an actress. The meaning of the title in the context of the film is that Lola is a "drama queen" in two senses, in the sense that she is an aspiring actress but also in the sense that she is the sort of person who will make a huge emotional drama out of just about every development in her life, but in the light of recent revelations about Lindsay's personal life it seems unfortunately appropriate to her as well.To be fair to Lindsay, however, the film shows just why she was regarded in 2004 as having enormous potential to become a major star. The freckle-faced redhead is not, perhaps, a classical beauty (the real beauty in this film is the appropriately-surnamed Megan Fox, who plays the obnoxious Carla), but she has plenty of personality and charisma, and makes Lola, for all her faults, into a lovable heroine. "Confessions….." is a fairly trivial and lightweight, if inoffensive, comedy, but the sparkle and energy of Miss Lohan's performance transform it into something watchable, even to those of us who are not teenage girls. 6/10

jimmylee-1 Here's another one for my secondary category of movies: the movies you watch when you just had your teeth drilled so you can't laugh out loud or think too hard because of the Tylenol with codeine the dentist thankfully prescribed. Wait; even then, this movie would be stupid. OK, credit to the writers taking the flip side to the nerd-in-the-new-school story. Lindsay Lohen, apparently applying herself to this one, manages to play the drama queen with flair, if not gusto (perhaps offering some insight into her personal psyche). Glenne Headly, who I'm ashamed to say I haven't noticed since Disney's overblown Dick Tracy, did a great job as the long-suffering, seen-it-all, mom, perfect for the movie. Allison Pill was great as Ella, although I'm not sure the character she played would have ever really stood up to Lola, regardless of circumstances. It was good to see Carol Kane on the screen - and Adam Garcia; up until HBO, I'm not sure we saw enough of him.But even the cast members can't save this movie. The scenario is so very unlikely. Silly self-centered new girl changes name at school (really, how many high school teachers would cater to that whim?) and creates rivalry with reigning popular queen (like any new girl takes that first step. Even the biggest idiot on the planet professes undying love and Best Friends Forever with the most popular girl in school to get into the best parties). Meanwhile, artistic mommy continues to remain true to herself, selling enough pottery so each child can have a room in their home in the 'burbs (the suburbs are just riotous with successful potters). Daddy is a famous dog cartoonist, but apparently pays no alimony. Daughter pretends Daddy is dead instead of using Daddy's famous standing to gain in popularity (right, as if the normal new-to-town girl wouldn't be flashing the dog on day two).Then, rock band leader meets silly spoiled girl (like that's going to happen) at the band's party (ditto) and, after a 15-minute drunken conversation, is persuaded to give up alcohol forever instead of swearing off teenage girls forever (the natural impulse after this movie). Current snobbish popularity queen is put in her place forever (OK, news flash: that NEVER happens in real life. Only with a great deal of luck will you see her at the 25-year reunion and hear that she has divorced the football quarterback and been stuck living with her parents in your backwater home town. Usually she's become a fitness instructor to the stars and is engaged to a fabulously wealthy stunt man while you've spent 10 years trying to get rid of stubborn belly fat) and our heroine is benevolent forever (she was a bit mercurial before, but I'm sure she'll have real focus now) from her new throne. I thankfully watched this on one of the premium channels, so when the girls misplaced their tickets for The Concert, I could at least change the channel rather than endure their amazing stupidity further. If my nieces behaved this way, I would have to send them to a remedial school for elementary purse carrying.Maybe this movie was great for teenage girls, but I found it to be silly set to a good soundtrack. (Just goes to show how close you can come to saving a really crummy flick with good music. John Belushi was right.) It was the soundtrack that kept me watching, not the acting or the storyline - the story was just embarrassing.

MovieAddict2016 I generally don't berate films here on IMDb that I don't think deserve a thorough bashing. When rating movies I usually take into consideration their genre, audience demographic and such. For example, judging a standard family movie like "Madagascar" against some type of epic adult feature such as "The Godfather" would be ridiculous - different genre, different crowd, different goal as a movie.But "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" doesn't even stack up against other family films of its kind. It's equally insulting for children and adults alike. On one level it begs to be some type of satirical comment on drama queens and materialism, but that's EXACTLY what the film falls victim to - its lead character, played by the despicable Lindsay Lohan, is a trashy drama queen who apparently spends all her free time lusting after a hunky teen icon. And just knowing about Lohan's drama queen antics in real life makes this character seem just a little bit too realistic. She's supposed to be the heroine of this film, but after five minutes I already hated her. And I'm not a prepossessed Lohan basher - I enjoyed her performance (or, rather, performances) in the Parent Trap remake - but she is just completely irritating here.The plot line is borderline idiotic and a very generic run-of-the-mill pre-teen flick: a rich brat has to move to a new place and leave all her friends behind, but the twist here - ARE YOU READY FOR IT?? Because it's an absolutely brilliant one - anyway, the twist here is that...get ready for it...she's a DRAMA QUEEN! Haha! Somebody give the screenwriter who came up with this concept a few million, because that's absolutely brilliant. As if any other character in a flick like this isn't already dramatic enough - making the character a drama queen just makes her consistent whining even all the MORE enjoyable! (Not.) I really came away hating this movie. It left me with a bad feeling in my gut. There's something kind of sleazy and insulting about it. It's supposed to appeal to our daughters, but I don't think I'd want any daughter of mine looking up to Lindsay Lohan - especially in a role like THIS - as any type of role model. Maybe it's just me but I feel no sympathy for a character as unlikeable as the one in this movie. Sorry, Ms. Lohan.