Bandslam – Get Ready to Rock! (2009)

Bandslam – Get Ready to Rock!: Directed by Todd Graff. With Aly Michalka, Vanessa Hudgens, Gaelan Connell, Scott Porter. A new kid in town assembles a fledgling rock band — together, they achieve their dreams and compete against the best in the biggest event of the year, a battle of the bands.

“The premise of this movie is not extraordinary. I say itu0026#39;s pretty common.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe ingredients are: (1) a boy (of the unpopular type) who has a charisma (understands music, although he doesnu0026#39;t seem to play an instrument) moves to a new town because his mom got a new job (2) a single mom (of the teenage boy) (3) a girl (of the cheerleader type) who likes boy 1 (4) another boy (of the popular type this time) who use to be the boyfriend of popular girl 3 and learns to hate boy 1 (5) A public contest of some sort…u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e…(wait this is exactly like the ingredients of …The Karate Kid!)…except for Mr. Miyagi! …u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eand (6) Vanessa Hudgens playing a good girl (!) of the lonely type who also happens to like boy 1.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnyway. This doesnu0026#39;t look or feels nothing like The Karate Kid despite my comparison! Itu0026#39;s basically a teen dramedy. Young hopes. Young love. Friendship.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s enjoyable enough. It has music and some (not very good) teeny songs. It may attract the younger audience but this movie is far from deep or interesting. Pretty standard stuff really.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf itu0026#39;s on TV or something, check it out”