Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert is a diverting 3-D artifact of Ms. Cyrus’s just concluded tour.
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (2008)
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Reviews Counted:42
Fresh:30
Rotten:12
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: This high-energy concert film should please Cyrus' rabid pre-teen fan base -- and may come as a pleasant surprise for parents.
Theatrical Release:Feb 1, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $65,138,443
Synopsis: Based on the hit Disney television show, HANNAH MONTANA/MILEY CYRUS: BEST OF BOTH WORLDS CONCERT TOUR 3-D provides dedicated fans an all-access pass to the Best of Both Worlds concert tour. Leaving... Based on the hit Disney television show, HANNAH MONTANA/MILEY CYRUS: BEST OF BOTH WORLDS CONCERT TOUR 3-D provides dedicated fans an all-access pass to the Best of Both Worlds concert tour. Leaving behind character Miley Stewart, the concert instead splits time between pop phenom Hannah Montana and Cyrus, who assumes the role of Montana's "ordinary girl" alter ego. Footage of the concert is interspersed with numerous behind-the-scene vignettes. Among these are pre-tour rehearsals--orchestrated by HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL impresario Kenny Ortega--and a touching jam session with father Billy Ray Cyrus. Also included are ecstatic fan testimonials and the film's most humorous moment, in which fathers race each other in high-heeled shoes for the chance to win concert tickets and backstage passes. Montana/Cyrus is joined on stage by the Jonas Brothers, who whip up the crowd with their own brand of high-energy pop. The film employs most of its 3-D tricks in the opening credits then pulls back the reins to focus on giving viewers the next best thing to actually being at the show. Filled with fist-pumping anthems ("Girls Night Out," "Nobody's Perfect," and the title track), BEST OF BOTH WORLDS remains true to the television show's dual personality theme: through good times and bad, every girl is her own superstar. For fans and parents alike, it's a wholesome and empowering message wrapped up in pure infectious fun. [More]
Starring: Miley Cyrus, Kenny Ortega, Billy Ray Cyrus
Starring: Miley Cyrus, Kenny Ortega, Billy Ray Cyrus
Director: Bruce Hendricks
Director: Bruce Hendricks
Producer: Art Repola
Studio: Disney/Pixar
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Reviews for Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds...
A proper little trouper with enough charisma to render the 3D visuals redundant.
Parents of younger fans will be pleased to note that although there's lots of jumping about and running around plus enough lipgloss to paint the Forth Bridge, there is not so much as a hint of raunch.
I can't help admiring the enthusiasm and musicality Miley Cyrus brings to her routines -- both as Hannah Montana and herself.
A film that opens with celebuspawn Cyrus practising scales and ends with me wrapping my lips around the barrel of a twelve-gauge
Some movies are critic-proof -- some for the wrong reasons, some for the right ones. This one falls into the latter camp.
An infectious, high-energy performance picture that overcomes its rather unsavory purpose by barreling forward with a nuclear bomb of tween enthusiasm and vivid displays of over-choreographed celebration.
Once the movie (and the ringing in your ears) stop, though, it's obvious why Cyrus has become such a phenomenon. She's pretty and stylish but never a mean girl, energetic and popular but not conceited.
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus is Bubble Yum for the eyes and ears. But given the demographic, that works.
Cyrus' fans will receive this material as Moses received those tablets from Mount Sinai.
...possesses few elements designed to appeal to viewers over a certain age...
Obviously, there's no replicating the real thing. But it's as close as you'll come to achieving the best of both worlds.
Sitting through this strenuously bland floor show, I amused myself imagining all the flannel-shirted Juno misfits watching this dreary stuff aghast.
What this concert film and documentary makes clear is that the real Miley is not just like her predominantly pre-adolescent, female fans.
For this crowd, Best of Both Worlds is a concert film on the level of Stop Making Sense and The Last Waltz.
"Cyrus is that pageant child often drawn in to the background whenever her dad Billy Ray is on set, and he even manages to attach himself in to her act..."
For the parents at least, this filmed concert is probably better than actually being there.
I found myself imagining boardrooms full of people going over market research about exactly which lime-green sneaker/jean jacket combo will get the maximum pop-lust response from the fans and create the biggest marketing opportunity.
This movie either marks the end of civilization or it's just jolly good fun.
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