Juvenile

Rating: 3/10 (5 February 2011)

This movie is hokey and feels juvenile. So many cliché characters and techniques used, from Dakota's 'daddy doesn't love me' teeny-bopper character and the sexified older sister with a d-bag boyfriend, to Joan buying her leather jacket in change, huffing paint and being told girls can't play electric guitar. Regardless of the validity or truthfulness to these occurrences, they look bad on film. The character development was painful and uninspired. I'm insulted for the people this is depicting. Poor acting from all parties. I don't mind Kristen Stewart as an actress, but she looks bored in most of her scenes. Dakota Fanning still doesn't grasp her roles. Big gay Bill Hader as their manager / producer is stupid. The scenes throughout the first half of the movie are choppy, and it makes it feel as if this band was just thrown together. Which, in all honesty, it probably was. I did a quick youtube search for "the runaways, cherry bomb" and it sucked too.