Fan Girl (2015)

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Blistering performances.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Great Movie I loved it Kara Hayward is such a great actress

The only reason I watched past the first 10 minutes was to see if it got any better- it doesn't. The personalities of these characters were all unoriginal and unnatural it was clear they made it just to try to be trendy. Honestly the way they discussed social media reminded me of either 1- a Facebook mom who doesn't understand the Internet or 2- a sixth grader who just discovered tumblr and thinks that they are cool because of it. Besides the cliché characters, the plot could have been good if it was actually like what every summary says it is, unfortunately that is of course not the case as they spend too much time either trying to force slang or going off to side stories that don't advance the main plot in any way. Also from a realistic standpoint they leave so many holes in the story as to how things ended up how they did and the camera angles used to show the footage that she supposedly shot doesn't match her actual angle *at all* which I just couldn't get over. If I could give it 0 stars the only thing that would stop me is the fact that it has a couple of good actors (even in awful roles).

Telulah Farrow (Kiernan Shipka) needs to make a movie trailer for her film class so that she can get into film school. She is obsessed with pop star Alex of the band 'All Time Low'. She needs to make the trailer with perpetual senior Darvan to enter a film festival. She has a crush on Charlie and talks in a British accent in front of him.Kiernan Shipka is an interesting young actress. It's too bad that young stars often get stuck in horrible movies. This is one of those times. It tries so hard to be super hip and wacky fun. Most of it don't work. Kiernan is a charming performer. Meg Ryan is the mother trying too hard. Scott Adsit plays the funny film teacher. I'm sure he got Tina Fey to take the pictures. The writing is so awkward at times that any accidental funny moments seem out of place. It's a weird movie that goes all over the place. I think some experienced rewrites and a better director would figure out how to make a good comedy out of this. This seems slapped together by recent film school graduates.

I made an account on here just to emphasize how bad this movie is. There's nothing special about this movie besides the actors, but I personally don't care for Shipka. Her words did not seem natural in the way I would have liked. The plot is very scattered. In order for someone to understand the whole movie they would have to sit down and watch it. The movie constantly makes social media references like Facebook, twitter, and calling Instagram pictures Insties. I found the movie uninteresting because it seemed to try to stereotype teens, but the way they did that was all wrong. The way they did it put teenagers in a bad light. Not in the sense they're troublemakers. In the sense that they have no originality and that they're selfish and obsessed with they're phones and social media. More on Shipka, she carried her expressions but her voice didn't carry them well. You can blame the plot for my dislike because there's a lot of crap I want to jump in and slap and strangle so many characters because the plot is so pathetic. There was no amazing moment about this movie until a girl walked in and chopped a girls pony tail off, but that didn't solve anything. I kept thinking this possibly couldn't be near the end because there felt like there was no climax in the movie and then it ended with some flashback music video Montage. You honestly think I connected with these characters? The movie wasn't long and it was so randomly plotted I didn't care to even remember any names besides the main characters. The only reason I gave it 2 stars was because it glanced over Tina Fey even though I didn't see her act in the movie and it also has a band I like, All Time Low.