Delightfully Surprised

Rating: 10/10 (15 July 2008)

The trailers or the marketing materials don't do this film any justice. I got to see it couple of weeks ago at a pre-screening and had already made up my mind that I was provably gonna hate it (because i had seen the trailers, and the posters didn't exactly draw my attention). But hey, free movie, and some free time, who's gonna say no to that? I was delightfully surprised to see an "original film" on theaters again. Something that was not a sequel, or a remake, or some cookie cutter flick. And I'm not a big music fan, but its got a good beat and i can dance to it LOL The film has a great story and you fall in love with the characters right away. I would have loved to have seen Jack Black playing the lead role but Rainn Wilson was perfect. There's sort of an unpolished subplot with the girls father, but i guess I'll let you be the judge of that.
Christina Applegate is HOT. She's come a long way from married with children and plays her character brilliantly.
I liked the girl band member, she actually did a great job with her character, though something about her just reminds me of Lindsay Lohan, not sure if she looks like her or she just plays the character the way Lohan would have played it, though could have been more unique.
Character-wise she just doesn't look dark enough for what I think the writers were going for.
If you get a chance take a date and check it out. You'll have plenty of good material to talk about over dinner.