From Justin to Kelly
From Justin to Kelly
PG | 20 June 2003 (USA)
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A waitress from Texas and a college student from Pennsylvania meet during spring break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and come together through their shared love of singing.

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Incannerax

What a waste of my time!!!

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Bergorks

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

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Lidia Draper

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

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Sanjeev Waters

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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P.J. Lipscombe

We all know the plot and have seen it hundreds of times before. Boy meets girl, boy unintentionally messes up, girl leaves boy, boy gets girl back. But this movie is so underestimated that I truly feel the need to set some opinions straight: This is not Beverly Hills 90210, this is not some episode of Baywatch combined with music (the best you've ever heard). This is a movie that will wake up all you romantically inclined people to take a good hard look at yourselves. Life isn't some romantic pipedream and love doesn't always work out the way it does in the movies. Except for this movie. This isn't just some chick-flick, and I'm sure many guys can relate to this movie. Kelly Clarkson will remind everyone of their everyday lives as this true-to-life movie slowly unfolds into the elaborate universal question: are men and women compatible? Men and women alike will be blown away by this great musical spectacle that makes "popular" films like Grease or Saturday Night Fever fade to grey in comparison. Rent it, buy it, give it to your loved one for valentine's day. If you see this movie, you will probably want to see it another 100 times.

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capone666

From Justin to KellyThe cost-effective basis behind movies starring flavours of the month is that the running time is only 15 minutes.Unfortunately, this 2003 romantic/musical/comedy featuring the winner and runner-up of American Idol bucks the trend.While on spring break with her girlfriends, Kelly (Kelly Clarkson) meets Justin (Justin Guarini), a fellow spring breaker who is likewise accompanied by his boys.Needles to say, the reality star-crossed lovers are brought together, before being torn apart, and brought back together.The whole time, Justin and Kelly's crews create mischief, when they're not joining the leads in choreographed song and dance.While it pretends to pay homage to hep beach party musicals, Justin and Kelly are complete squares: their songs are forgettable, their acting is incompetent and their dance routines are substandard.Maybe the producers of American Idol should've gone with their guts, and instead of Florida, set spring break in a Coca-Cola factory. (Red Light)vidiotreviews.blogspot.com

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CanadianCinephile

Backing my courageous assertion that I must watch everything and anything I come across, here is From Justin to Kelly. This 2003 "musical" is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Penned by Kim Fuller, the brother of American Idol creator Simon Fuller, From Justin to Kelly features Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini partying it up during one of the lamest spring breaks on record.Is this some sort of elaborate joke? Can a movie actually be this bad? What the hell is Clarkson wearing? Why, dear Jesus, why?Clarkson stars in this catastrophe as some sort of downhome Texas waitress named Kelly. She's the most conservative of her three friends. The other two are flat stereotypes: one is a shifty and confusingly manipulative blonde girl (Katherine Bailess) and the other is the token black friend (Anika Noni Rose). The two girls convince Kelly that she needs to take some time off from singing and waiting tables in this bar, so they head to Fort Lauderdale.In Fort Lauderdale, Guarini is the inventively-named Justin. See? Justin and Kelly, just like on TV! Justin is some sort of party promoter and he also hangs out with two stereotypes: a nerd (Brian Dietzen) meeting a girl from the enchanted and apparently still profound internet and some buff loser (Greg Siff). Justin and Kelly "meet" in a stupid dance number and fall in love, but the confusingly manipulative blonde "friend" of Kelly's gets in the way. Will Justin and Kelly overcome the befuddling text messages and strange overtures?From Justin to Kelly plays out like a teen movie written and produced by people who were teens about 78 years ago. There's this preposterous attempt to "understand" teen culture, but this drivel makes High School Musical look like Gone with the Wind. There are "dance" numbers, "songs" and "song-and-dance" numbers. The stereotypes fit in the right places and the movie's obligatory scoundrel turns out to be a Machiavellian curiosity that still leaves as one of Kelly's best friends.The "songs" in From Justin to Kelly are bad. The "dancing" is bad. The "acting" is bad. The "screenplay" is bad. The "characters" are bad. The "scenery" is bad. The "camerawork" is bad. The "direction" is bad. The "titles" are bad. The "end credits" are bad. Any "animal actors" are bad. The "food" is bad. Everything, and I mean everything, is bad.Brandon, the aforementioned buff loser, raps. The nerd meets a strange- looking girl from the internet. Kelly and Justin sing on a boat. Kelly sings a song holding her purse walking down the beach after leaving a bar without her purse. There's a bald steroid freak, apparently, and a dude that looks to be about 45 hanging around moaning about losing his girlfriend to somebody he never lost his girlfriend to. There's a whipped cream bikini contest that isn't the least bit interesting. Seriously.This is spring break zaniness for the Disney set, an imagined and hopeful view of what people in their twenties are up to when all bets are off and the night can cover the sins of the day. Hannah Montana is more hedonistic. Or so I've heard.At the end of the day, I found myself somewhat proud of the grand achievement of having made it through From Justin to Kelly. I felt like I had accomplished something spectacular, like I had really done the world some sort of service. Any of my other failings were quickly glossed over by the realization that I made it. Any sense of inadequacy was gone. I made it. I lived to tell.

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haterofcrap

This movie was great. It was way more entertaining than overrated trash as "Rambo" or "Conan the Barbarian". This movie was funny, cute and heartwarming. The characters were very likable, and all the cast made a great work (I never saw them in any other movie, but all the performances of this film were great) The songs were pretty good. I liked all of them. I don't see why there is too much hate for this film, it was pretty good and enjoyable. Just like some movies are way overrated, this film is quite underrated. It is is one of the best romantic films ever made, along with Twilight. It definitely deserves more recognition.

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