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From Justin To Kelly (2003)

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Average Rating: 2.7/10
Reviews Counted: 60
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 55

An innocuous and cheesy piece of fluff filled with musical numbers that are tied together by a thin plot.

6

Average Rating: 2.7/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 15

An innocuous and cheesy piece of fluff filled with musical numbers that are tied together by a thin plot.

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From the producer and writer of Spice World and the director of She's All That comes this musical comedy inspired by and featuring the stars of Fox's hit reality show American Idol. Starring the winner and runner-up of the show's first season, Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini, as slightly fictionalized versions of themselves, From Justin to Kelly attempts to recreate the atmosphere of the fun-loving beach musicals of the 1960s. When Kelly (Clarkson) and Justin (Guarini) embark on a vacation in

PG, 1 hr. 21 min.

Television, Romance, Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy

Kim Fuller

Aug 26, 2003

$4.6M

20th Century Fox

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All Critics (60) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (56) | DVD (10)

How bad is From Justin to Kelly? Set in Miami during spring break, it's like Grease: The Next Generation acted out by the food-court staff at SeaWorld.

July 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Entertainment Weekly
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One of the worst movies you'll ever see -- but it's still not worth seeing.

June 25, 2003 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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Amid this glad tumble of Limited lycra ... surreality seeps in: American flags fly prominently; and despite sideline breakin', all rappers are white.

June 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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From Justin to Kelly is less a movie than a big-screen bobblehead of Fox TV's phenomenon American Idol.

June 23, 2003 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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[From Justin to Kelly] is basically a more wholesome MTV Dance Party, the musical festivities interrupted every so often to search for a plot.

June 23, 2003 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | Comment
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Industrial-strength insipidity diluted only marginally by bad music and worse dancing.

June 23, 2003 Comment
Washington Post
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Idol film expands 15 minutes of fame.

December 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Television propelled teen idolatry-%u2013the kind that Moses would probably have disapproved-%u2013gets its ugly comeuppance...

June 2, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

This is such a manipulative product placing piece of dribble that it reeks of failure.

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Cinema Crazed

More than anything, From Justin To Kelly needs Simon Cowell.

January 8, 2008 Full Review Source: AV Club | Comment
AV Club

Is it too late to vote them off? For once, we don't have to tell you how bad a film is... you knew before they made it.

October 7, 2003 Full Review Source: EDGE Boston | Comment
EDGE Boston

Since I've never watched an episode of "American Idol," I can't imagine what Justin or Kelly did to win. It surely couldn't have been singing, dancing, or acting...."

August 14, 2003 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

The movie is billed as a romantic musical comedy. You coulda fooled me.

August 14, 2003 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Watching them lock lips feels like incest propaganda: Justin and Kelly are offspring of the same publicity machinery, after all

August 13, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | Comment
Film Freak Central

From Justin to Kelly is bad, but Glitter is still worse because Glitter thinks it's a great movie.

July 20, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Snobs | Comment
Film Snobs

From Justin to Kelly is just one of those films, a bottomless well of snark fodder that may come and go in theatres but will surely be spun innumerable times on DVD at parties in the years to come.

July 1, 2003 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

Fans of the television show may show up for this one, but given that an American Idol sequel has already ended its run, audiences are likely to find it stale.

June 29, 2003 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
Boxoffice Magazine

Moulin Rouge ... Chicago ... From Justin to Kelly ... two steps forward and then about 16 steps back for the film musical.

June 29, 2003 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
Austin Chronicle

It's more dumbfounding that so much time is wasted on a cast of unknowns, second-stringers granted solos long before Kelly or Justin take center stage. Why not support with other first-season alums?

June 28, 2003 Comment
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland

The notion behind it is as contrived, forced, manipulated and fake as any film ever made.

June 28, 2003 Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | Comment
EricDSnider.com

Having won first and second place in some sort of TV talent show, Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini get to play movie star, a bonus all America should immediately vote to have removed from the prize bin.

June 28, 2003 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | Comment
L.A. Weekly

What do you do to decide who gets the girl? Do you fight? Arm-wrestle, perhaps? Why, no, silly. You play hovercraft basketball, of course.

June 26, 2003 Comment
Film Blather

Messages that read 'I O U A BRGR. U GAME?' ... propel the plot forward. Alas, all the scenes in which Prince hijacks the cell phones have been left on the cutting room floor.

June 26, 2003 Full Review | Comment

It was produced by people who saw nothing in it but a few quick bucks, filled with songs that no one would want to hear again and starring two people who have no business at the center of any movie.

June 25, 2003 Full Review Source: Critic Doctor | Comment
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Audience Reviews for From Justin To Kelly

Anyone who can make it through this movie, in its entirety, without fast forwarding or crying violently for long periods of time are in fact saints, and their miracles should be recognized by the church. This giant commercial for the series American Idol stars season one winner Kelly Clarkson and runner-up Justin

August 4, 2010
FrizzDrop

Super Reviewer

Kind of a waste of money.

August 5, 2007
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