CORPORATE LINE: When a New York City teenager from Greenwich Village, Lola (Lohan), is forced to move to the New Jersery suburb of Dellwood, she finds that in her new school, there is another girl, Carla Santini (Fox), who already has claim to the title of most popular girl that Lola had at her old school. Aiming to oust Carla from her reign, Lola sets her sights on nabbing the lead role in the next big school play (“Pygmalion”), which Carla also hopes to star in. As the two girls engage in a war for popularity, Carla lashes back at Lola by obtaining tickets to the sold-out “farewell concert” of Lola’s favorite band. Can Lola somehow sneak into the concert and quell Carla’s latest scheme, and at the same time meet the band’s English lead singer, Stu Wolff (Garcia), whom she has such a crush on?
THE GOOD/BAD: It’s a shame that Lindsay Lohan doesn’t have a better script because she is a better actress than this film would allow you to believe. All the changing of clothes, doing makeup, and exchanging barbs grows tired because it’s been done before and better. Everything in “Confessions” is to appeal to your eyes but nothing else. On second thought that might have been the only way they could cover up for the week script. “Confessions” is geared towards teens but it’s hard to imagine anyone finding this anything more than a stylized bore.
DVD FEATURES: The commentary by director Sara Sugarman, writer Gail Parent, and producers Robert Shapiro & Jerry Leider are hard to sit through especially if you didn’t enjoy the film. There are deleted scenes that were better off left hidden forever. The music video by Lindsay Lohan is obnoxious and the on the set featurette adds very little to the extra package.
FRANKLY: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen is an over and underdone movie. Good for the eyes, but bad for they mind.
+ Charlie Craine
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