It is a performances centric movie

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Ya know, when we first started watching this movie I thought, "Hmmm... Interesting premise." A girl, Jamie Bartlett (Kay Panabaker), finds a headband that helps her to have an alter ego "Is" (played by Danielle Panabaker, her older sister.) Using the people she meets at school as characters in her journal, "Is" has many fantastical journeys the when the book is published causes Jamie to have instant success. During one of her classes the cutest guy in school, Marco (played by Chad Broskey) had to read a poem, she instantly falls in love with him.This is when the "typical" aspect of it starts to come out. Once she becomes famous she starts to turn her back on her friends, who consist of two girls and one boy; Connor. (who is also madly in love with Jamie but is too scared to say anything). As it turns out he was the one who wrote the poem that caused Jamie to fall in love with Marco. Now her friends, alienated, start to not like Jamie anymore. But its during one fateful television interview that Jamie inadvertently lets the cat out of the bag when she refers to a character in the book but uses the name of the girl that she based the character on. This causes everyone to turn against Jamie. (Wow, didn't see that one coming) Everyone except Marco. But this is to be expected considering he's the only one who wasn't bashed in the book.Once the truth comes out and and everyone hates her the only person who really sticks up for her is Connor. When everyone else is writing "Letters to the Editor" to the school newspaper hes the only one who writes something good. Recognizing the writing style as the same one that wrote the poem that she loved so much earlier on she believes it to be Marco who wrote it.Flash forward to the big dance. Shes talking to Marco and finds out that he didn't write the poem or the letter to the editor. She finds out it was Connor. She gets called up to the stage to be awarded for something that she had no part of. The decorations for the dance. Her friends and her had originally signed up to do it but once her book became famous she ditched them for her new friends (the cool people). {{Again, typical Disney movie style.}} Anyway, once she gets on stage everyone starts booing her, and she comes to realize what she must do. She apologizes for everything and runs out to catch Connor before he leaves. Its the same formula that is used in many Disney/children's movies. Its quite predictable. However, that being said, I thought it was a very cute and sweet movie.

I read the book based on this movie several years ago and I must say, I remember enjoying the book and the movie was a bit disappointing. Ihave no complaints about the acting, but I noticed no credit to the book except near the end, "How my private, personal journal became a national bestseller." Also, the plot line seemed very different and much more predictable than the book. This might just be me, but I did not like the movie very much at all. I asked some of my Disney-channel-obsessing friends if they thought that the book was better too and they didn't even know the movie was based on a book! Nothing against DisneyChannel or any of the actors, but I did not like this movie.

I felt like this movie was going to be great but it ended up being one of my least favorite movies ever shown on Disney! I do like the plot, but I didn't expect Is to take over Jamie's life and be evil! I'm a big fan of Danielle Panabaker and don't like to see her as an evil character when working with her sister! I also don't think she had a big enough part, and Kay had too big. I don't understand why they would have made this movie sound so perfect and turn out so not! I think that they should have not changed the actors, but maybe had a better script....I just really didn't like it that much at all!!!!!! It's just sad that Disney channel can make awesome TV shows that don't look good until you watch them, but make movies the complete opposite!!!!

I thought this movie was great! It was very fun to watch because it's not so normal, no movies are based on writing. I thought it was great how much the main character Jami, (Kay Panabaker who is one of my favorite actresses) changed over the movie. She went from a girl that wants to be someone else to someone that ends up really appreciating her life. Since I'm a teenager I can relate to a lot of the problems in the movie, and I think a lot of the other viewers feel the same. I also liked how Jami's alter ego Is was always telling and trying to convince Jami to do the wrong thing, but at the end Jami wouldn't let Is get inside her head. So overall this was great and I highly recommend it!