It was OK....

Rating: Null/10 (4 January 2007)

I was a bit disappointed with the way they portrayed the real pageant girls in this movie. Lauren Yee is phenomenal, the one in the navy talent, and they didn't show hardly any of her routine, but they lingered on the swimsuit competition. By the way, the men are fathers...you learn that if you do child pageants. The mothers are usually backstage making sure everything in attached. I have never seen a girl strip at a pageant, and you see how rare it is by the reaction of most of the contestants. I have also never seen a director tell the emcee...they were making fun of a real emcee...to get a child off the stage. Yes, they do spray tan and wear the makeup, but so do all-star cheerleaders and dancers...It's a stage. If you are in the audience, it looks fine. These kids work their butts off and are more coordinated than you could believe, and they barely showed any of it. I guess the acting was OK...the brother was impressive and the grandpa was kind of funny, but other than that, it was a plot that has been used for so many movies/TV shows that it's not interesting. I felt I wasted $4.00 on a movie that has been done many times before. Well, I'm going to sit through it again and try to see where it was a comedy, but honestly, I think it would have been better as a made-for-TV film...