The blond bombshell in the movie goes by Lola (Lindsay Lohan) because she finds her given name, Mary, too boring for words. Running time: 89 MIN."Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" is Betty and Veronica redux with all the depth and subtlety of an old-style Archie comic book.
Reviewed at UA Galaxy, San Francisco, Feb. Sephton, Adam Kopald supervising sound mixers, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker visual effects supervisor, Don Schrecker choreographer, Marguerite Derricks line producer, Mathew Hart assistant director, Bruce Speyer second unit director (N.Y.), Robert Shapiro second unit camera, Larry McConkey casting, Marcia Ross, Donna Morong.
Robinson sound (Dolby Digital/SDDS/DTS), Douglas Ganton supervising sound editors, Robert L. Burum editor, Anita Brandt Burgoyne music, Mark Mothersbaugh music supervisor, Dawn Soler production designer, Leslie McDonald art director, Dennis Davenport set designers, Grant Van Der Slagt, Sean Breaugh, Elis Lam, Andrew Stean set decorator, Clive Thomasson costume designer, David C. Screenplay, Gail Parent, based on the novel by Dyan Sheldon.Ĭamera (Deluxe color, Technicolor prints), Stephen H. Packaging is pro, even if a small screen air stubbornly lingers.Ī Buena Vista release of a Walt Disney Pictures presentation of a Jerry Leider and Robert Shapiro production in association with Argentum Film Produktion GMBH and Co. Part-animated fantasy segs, colorful production design (even alley garbage bags are pastel-rainbow hued), and a shiny teen-pop soundtrack create more clutter than stylistic consistency in Welsh helmer Sara Sugerman’s (“Very Annie Marie”) first Hollywood feature. A nearly unrecognizable Carol Kane leads support cast, trying a bit too hard with poor material as the wacky drama teacher. It doesn’t help that distinctions between her and villain Carla blur: Both are self-consumed, attention-needy junior fashion plates. In the hands of Reese Witherspoon or Kirsten Dunst a couple years back, Lola might have been a comic delight, but here she comes off rather more irksome than intended. may set a new record here in costume changes per reel - and Disney label or no, some can only be described as repping fashion’s ever-relevant (on certain avenues) Hootchie Mama tradition.Īfter her able turn in “Friday,” Lohan is just OK. But story tilt and riot of consumerist imagery suggest the most important things in life are peer one-upmanship and having an infinite clothing allowance. “Confessions” has a thin moral, poorly built up, about how even little white lies are, like, lies. (A high school movie customized for preteens, “Confessions” imagines that when two 15-year-old girls are ushered into a rock star’s boudoir, nothing happens beyond their getting to jump on his bed and try on his clothes.) A destroyed Carla accidentally backs into a fountain –and as the coup de grace, Lola offers her hand in friendship (a maneuver not unlike Lohan’s recent off-screen “I like her, I don’t know why she doesn’t like me!” announcements re: rival teen queen Hillary Duff.) Stu turns up to humiliate Carla by proving he’s ever-so-platonically-fond of Lola and Ella. (Dellwood High’s drama budget appear Broadway-scaled, though one shudders to imagine the next morning’s New York Times review.) But she gets it together in time for the “Eliza Rocks!” opening night, which fans of “Stayin’ Alive’s” notorious “Satan’s Alley” or “The Simpsons'” “Planet of the Apes”/”Streetcar Named Desire” musicalizations might want to check out. (Once he sobers up, Lola’s pouting disapproval alone is enough to put the abashed star on the wagon.) The girls triumphantly accompany him back in, but nasty Carla later makes all schoolmates think Lola fibbed about the whole experience. She and Ella end up “rescuing” dead-drunk lead singer Stu (Adam Garcia) when he strays from the after-party and passes out. Their rivalry worsens when Lola wins the part in the school play Carla coveted - as Eliza Doolittle in a modernized, musical “Pygmalion.”īarely noticing she’s acquired cute boyfriend Sam (Eli Marienthal), Lola directs her energy to scoring tickets to the Sidarthur farewell concert after it’s announced that the group is breaking up. Lola instantly chafes against Dellwood High’s resident queen rich-bee-atch, Carla (Megan Fox). Lola instantly bonds with wallflowerish Ella (Allison Pill) when they discover they have a mutual obsession with the (fictive) rock band Sidarthur. (Canadian shoot may explain the distinct lack of Joisey accents) by divorced mom Karen (Glenne Headly). Re-christening herself from plain old Mary in protest, Lola (Lohan) is dragged from New York City to deepest N.J.
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