The Lizzie McGuire Movie

The Lizzie McGuire Movie is a 2003 American live-action/animated children's comedy movie based on the Disney Channel television series of the same name, directed by Jim Fall. The movie was produced by Stan Rogow Productions, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on May 2, 2003. The film stars Hilary Duff, LaLaine, Adam Lamberg, Robert Carradine, Hallie Todd and Jake Thomas. The film is both a combination of live-action filmmaking and 2D traditional hand-drawn animation. At its release, the film peaked at number two at the domestic box office behind X2: X-Men United. The Lizzie McGuire Movie was released on August 12, 2003 on the THX-certified VHS and DVD and a video game adaptation was released on November 27, 2003 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, PC and Game Boy Advance.

 Plot 
Lizzie and her class travel to Rome. There Lizzie meets at the Trevi Fountain Paolo Valisari, an Italian singer. He tells Lizzie that he should sing with Isabella Parigi, a popular singer. But Isabella don't wants to sing with him, so he asks Lizzie to sing playback for her. Lizzie looks exactly like Isabella, only the hair is different. She says yes. At the airport,  Gordo meets the real Isabella, she knows Paolo's plan: He doesn't want to use Lizzie's playback so it will seem like Isabella can't sing. In the end Isabella came and sang for Lizzie and Lizzie sang, too. Lizzie is a good singer, but Paolo is a bad singer, he always sings playback.

 Cast 
 Hilary Duff as Lizzie McGuire
 LaLaine as Miranda Sanchez
 Adam Lamberg as David Gordon
 Jake Thomas as Matt McGuire
 Hallie Todd as Jo McGuire
 Robert Carradine as Sam McGuire
 Ashlie Brillault as Kate Sanders
 Clayton Snyder as Ethan Craft
 Haylie Duff as Isabella Parigi
 Yani Gellman as Paolo Valisari
 Alex Borstein as Miss Ungermeyer
 Carly Schroeder as Melina Bianco
 Christian Copelin as Lanny Onasis
 Kyle Downes as Larry Tudgeman
 Davida Williams as Claire Miller
 Brendan Kelly as Sergei

 Production 

 Development 
The film, produced by Stan Rogow, co-produced by Savage Steve Holland, was directed by Jim Fall from a screenplay by Susan Estelle Jansen, Ed Decter and John J. Strauss. It was filmed on location in Rome, Italy in the fall of 2002.

 Cast 
The main cast of Lizzie McGuire reprised their roles except the characters including Danny Kessler, Angel Lieberman, Andie, Carlos Sanchez (Miranda's cousin), Winston, and other characters from many Season 1 and 2 episodes are absent.

 Animation 
New York's Tapehouse Toons again handled the animation sequences involving Lizzie's cartoon alter ego, just like in the television show. This marked their first time working on a feature film, after being approached by Disney, who normally handled these type of projects at their in-house animation studio. Tapehouse had to hire 15 additional people for the task of completing the film, thus expanding their "core group" of five employees.

Music
The music score for the film was composed by Guy Moon from Nickelodeon's animated series The Fairly OddParents, and the additional music was conducted by Cliff Eidelman.

Sound
The post-production sound services for the film was provided by Advantage Audio, Inc. in Burbank, California. Robert Duran, the sound designer, and Michael Warner, the sound effects editor at Advantage Audio from The Fairly OddParents. He used the many sound effects for many cartoony sounds in the Lizzie McGuire feature movie. Some effects are cartoony, while others are sound a bit more realistic.

 Reception 

 Critical response 
On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 40% based on 102 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10. The site's critics consensus calls the film: "A harmless piece of fluff that ought to satisfy fans of the TV show." On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 56 out of 100 based on 28 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.

Scott Brown of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B+: "Let's face it: Lizzie McGuire (Hilary Duff) is just too darn polished to be a junior-high underdog, even by the standards of her 'luxe suburban environs'. But that hasn't tarnished her comeback-kid cred among the six-and-ups who faithfully follow her Disney Channel show—and it doesn't make The Lizzie McGuire Movie, a clever, agreeably weightless theatrical outing, any less enjoyable." Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four, but praised Borstein's performance, calling her work "the only really delightful element in the movie; everything else is simply slick and professional."

 Box office 
In its opening weekend the film grossed $17.3 million in 2,825 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking second behind X2: X-Men United. The Lizzie McGuire Movie grossed $42.7 million domestically and $12.8 million internationally for a worldwide total of $55.5 million.

 Awards 
 2003 (won): Kids' Choice Award for Movie Breakout Star, Female (Hilary Duff)
 2003 (won): Teen Choice Award for Movie Breakout Star, Female (Hilary Duff)
 2003 (nominated): Teen Choice Awards for Movie Comedy, Movie Comedy Actress (Hilary Duff)
 2004 (nominated): Leo Award for Feature-Length Drama: Best Visual Effects (Gary Gutierrez, Jayne Craig, Bruce Woloshyn, Simon Ager and Wes Sargent)

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