The music in Raise Your Voice ... manages to bring home what the uninspired script doesn't: Something in you dies if you don't express your musical talent.
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10/08/04
Raise Your Voice (2004)
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Reviews Counted:82
Fresh:13
Rotten:69
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: A bland, formulaic tween version of Fame.
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Terri Fletcher (Hilary Duff) is your typical sweet-hearted, small-town girl and she always obeys her intensely overprotective dad (David Keith), but when she gets accepted to a summer program at a... [More]
Starring: Hilary Duff, Jason Ritter, John Corbett, Rebecca De Mornay
Director: Sean McNamara
Reviews for Raise Your Voice
A teen movie so inspirational and heartwarming that it comes with its very own lip gloss.
10/08/04
It's particularly good at capturing that time of life when you simultaneously believe everything is possible and that each tiny misstep is the end of the world.
10/08/04
Duff at 17 is so easy to take. She radiates without smugness, like the blessed offspring of Marilyn Monroe and a virile marshmallow.
10/08/04
Under Sean McNamara's direction, the film seems sappy and superficial, a voice barely raised to a whisper.
10/08/04
Such treacle you'd have to be a serious fan to get through the thing without losing your lunch.
10/08/04
An earnest and eager Fame for the young and the tin-eared.
10/08/04
One could be forgiven for thinking of Raise Your Voice as a Disney Channel special that was mistakenly spun out into the multiplexes.
10/08/04
A film that's really just an infomercial for a soundtrack.
10/08/04
Overlong, blandly soporific movie.
10/08/04
Not since the students spilled out onto the streets in Fame has musical performance been so infectious a part of coming of age.
10/08/04
The filmmakers make a big show of striving for sincerity and substance, but they so load the dice that their movie is heavy-going from start to finish.
10/08/04
Top CriticGives Duff another chance to play a contemporary Cinderella, but she still isn't able to find real character depth. Then again, the script doesn't demand much of her.
10/08/04
A boring, badly written, cliche-heavy outing with lousy production values, various moral messages unfit for childhood consumption and songs from the known-carcinogen school of pop.
10/08/04
A miserable waste of a harebrained script fleshed out with mediocre performances by a flailing cast.
10/08/04
The film suffers from a syndrome I'll call the Pop Princess's New Clothes. Hilary can't really sing, and neither can Terri, so you can't help but wonder, what's the big whoop?
10/08/04
What Hilary Duff will do when she grows up is anybody's guess, but for now she's the Duffinator, and things could be a lot worse.
10/08/04
Like most performers who chuck TV fame for the big screen, [Duff] follows one grim vehicle (A Cinderella Story) with this even worse one just a few months later.
10/08/04
If it's possible, each successive Hilary Duff film seems to become more formulaic than the one before... just as each has become more predictable and treacly.
10/08/04
Her dad was right about one thing. Something terrible did happen to her in Los Angeles. She made this movie.
10/08/04
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