I hope they don’t wait this long for Rubin’s film.
From Justin to Kelly (2003)
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Reviews Counted:59
Fresh:5
Rotten:54
Average Rating:2.8/10
Consensus: An innocuous and cheesy piece of fluff filled with musical numbers that are tied together by a thin plot.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis:
The fairytale rise to superstardom of America's favorite "Idols" continues as Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini make the leap to the big screen in this spring's biggest beach party, From Justin to...
The fairytale rise to superstardom of America's favorite "Idols" continues as Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini make the leap to the big screen in this spring's biggest beach party, From Justin to Kelly, a new musical romantic comedy. The music from the film features the formidable singing talents of both "Idols," and plays a major role in the excitement of this major motion picture.
Spring break in Miami is the scene. It's where surf-drenched guys cruise girls in bikinis and raucous parties rule day and night. It's the perfect time and place for three young women from Texas and a trio of college guys from Pennyslvania to find adventure and maybe even fall in love.
In a Texas dive bar, Kelly (Kelly Clarkson) is singing her heart out to a few local yokels when her best friends Kaya (Anika Noni Rose) and Alexa (Katherine Bailess) try and tempt her away fro some fun in the Florida sun. It's an easy sell -- even for the cautious Kelly -- and the three head for Miami.
Making their way to the same destination is the "Pennylvania Posse": college students Justin (Justin Guarini), Brandon (Greg Siff) and Eddie (Brian Dietzen). Justin and Brandon are smooth-talking party promoters, while Eddie's primed to meet Lizzie, the cyber dream girl he's been e-mailing for months
Miami Beach, beating with a rhythm all its own, is teeming with beautiful people. Kelly's friends are drawn into the beachside fun, while Kelly tentatively navigates a sea of strangers. When her eyes meet Justin's, everything changes, in as instant. While Kaya and Alexa are content to survey the parade of eye candy, Kelly's now only interested in the guy with the irresistible smile.
The feeling is mutual and Justin's on fire. But as luck would have it, he loses Kelly's number -- and boy-crazy Alexa has already set her sights on Justin. She will stop at nothing -- even betraying a friend -- to nab Justin as her own.
Will true love win out for the star-crossed Justin and Kelly? -- © 20th Century Fox
Starring: Kelly Clarkson, Justin Guarini, Katherine Bailess, Anika Noni Rose
Starring: Kelly Clarkson, Justin Guarini, Katherine Bailess, Anika Noni Rose, Greg Siff, Brian Dietzen, Jason Yribar
Director: Robert Iscove
Director: Robert Iscove
Screenwriter: Kim Fuller
Producer: Gayla Aspinall, John Steven Agoglia
Composer: Michael Wandmacher
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Reviews for From Justin to Kelly
Amid this glad tumble of Limited lycra ... surreality seeps in: American flags fly prominently; and despite sideline breakin', all rappers are white.
So awful it hits the bottom of the bad-o-meter and bounces back up to be sort of good. I haven't laughed this hard in a while. Of course it was in all the wrong spots and mixed with an underlying groan.
From Justin to Kelly is less a movie than a big-screen bobblehead of Fox TV's phenomenon American Idol.
Move over, Mariah Carrey, there’s a new kid in town and she’s got a movie that out-Glitters Glitter.
[From Justin to Kelly] is basically a more wholesome MTV Dance Party, the musical festivities interrupted every so often to search for a plot.
Industrial-strength insipidity diluted only marginally by bad music and worse dancing.
Pic's residence in theaters looks to be about as brief as a spring break hotel stay.
From Justin to Kelly may be right out of the Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello scrapbook, but that's not the movie they are making here.
An 80-minute cavalcade of music-video-style numbers, strung together with little fits of dialogue for pretty, gym-toned performers who are given the names of characters.
From Justin to Kelly is 81 minutes of beach blanket bunkum, with the cast of cute kids bursting into song every now and then to cover up a romance that never ignites.
Despite all the constant discussion of raging hormones, hot babes and whipped-cream bikini contests, the movie is Disney-clean and curiously asexual.
A deodorized beach romance that plays the unpretentious personalities of Clarkson and Guarini to the hilt.
Not many people really expected From Justin to Kelly to be any good. But was it too much to ask that it at least have a plot?
I realize this effort wasn't intended for the likes of me or most anyone over the age of early teendom. Yet, did it really have to be this bad and painful to witness?
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