Now I know how all those people felt 21 years ago when The Pirate Movie came out. This will make all the 12-year-old fans in the audience want to take up smoking, drinking, impregnating and aborting.
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06/23/03
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... [More]
Starring: Kelly Clarkson, Justin Guarini, Katherine Bailess, Anika Noni Rose
Director: Robert Iscove
Reviews for From Justin to Kelly
[Guarini] is a hopeless case. ... [But] acting lessons and a costume designer who can flatter her non-anorexic figure could turn Clarkson into a movie star.
06/22/03
Where are Frankie and Annette?
06/22/03
The would-be romantic comedy is a PG-rated musical that's as dull as dishwater.
06/22/03
This movie is a joke, and I know it as both critic and fan.
06/22/03
A sweet, innocuous musical romance, the cinema version of a carnival's cotton candy.
06/22/03
This too-many -generations-removed copy of Where the Boys Are (1960) is crammed with energetic but artless musical numbers that feature lip-synching multitudes and uninspired choreography.
06/22/03
Why assemble a movie that the majority of American Idol's audience would be embarrassed to go see?
06/21/03
The choreography is flat and lifeless; the pop songs are thoroughly disposable, mass-produced trash; and the lip-synching and sound mix have to be some of the worst ever for a big studio motion picture.
06/21/03
...schmaltzy...sitting through the bubble gum banality of FJTK is enough to make poor Beach vets Frankie and Annette (and the rest of us for that matter) bury their delusional heads in the sand.
06/21/03
Some films defy criticism. They're so inept, hilarious and gleefully, goofily awful that they actually inspire a weird sort of admiration. This flick, starring American Idol's Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini, is one of those movies.
06/21/03
A better-than-expected diversion.
06/21/03
A slight story about spring break romances is the excuse for a series of forgettable musical numbers, each delivered with the same shake-the-rafters power ballad punch.
06/20/03
Colorful but decidedly brain-dead...just a mediocre piece of fluff, and the fact that it could have been worse isn't much consolation.
06/20/03
A gloriously cheesy movie, the guilty pleasure to beat this summer!
06/20/03
It’s sad that after Moulin Rouge and Chicago worked so hard to resurrect the musical, From Justin to Kelly had to go and kill it all over again.
06/20/03
From Justin to Kelly has the potential to be almost cultishly kitschy if the songs were even remotely interesting, but they're just more of the same trite pop garbage we've come to expect from our American Idols.
06/20/03
A better-than- expected diversion that likely won't leave anyone feeling cheap or cheated.
06/20/03
Some people wait a lifetime for a turkey like this -- and for them,'From Justin to Kelly' will provide a holiday feast. ...a spectacularly wretched musical melodrama.
06/19/03
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