Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009)
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 127
Fresh: 56 | Rotten: 71
While youthful Miley fans won't complain, Hannah Montana the Movie is little more than a formulaic Disney Channel episode stretched thin.
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 15
While youthful Miley fans won't complain, Hannah Montana the Movie is little more than a formulaic Disney Channel episode stretched thin.
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Hannah Montana: The Movie opens with Hannah's ($Miley Cyrus) hectic lifestyle wrecking the important relationships in her life. Because she gets into a catfight over shoes with Tyra Banks, she forgets to say goodbye when her brother leaves for college, and she's late for her best friend's sweet sixteen because she's being chased by the paparazzi. Anxious to get Miley back to her roots, her manager/father (Billy Ray Cyrus), whisks her away to their hometown in Tennessee, where he hopes grandma
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Cast
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Miley Cyrus
Hannah Montana/Miley St... -
Billy Ray Cyrus
Robby Ray Stewart -
Emily Osment
Lilly -
Jason Earles
Jackson -
Mitchel Musso
Oliver -
Moises Arias
Rico -
Lucas Till
Travis Brody -
Vanessa L. Williams
Vita -
Margo Martindale
Ruby -
Peter Gunn
Oswald Granger -
Melora Hardin
Lorelai -
Jared Carter
Derrick -
Barry Bostwick
Mr. Bradley -
Beau Billingslea
Mayor -
Taylor Swift
Herself -
Adam Gregory (II)
Drew -
Jane Carr
Lucinda -
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While Cyrus's droll performance (Miley's not Billy Ray's) deserves better material, this is still amply entertaining.
Top CriticCyrus, as always, is a professional charmer (it's hard to resist when she leads a hip-hop hoedown), and the crusty folkiness of Billy Ray Cyrus as her real-life dad is as welcome as ever.
The bottom line is that I don't think you are going to care.
Aside from a few cameos and a big benefit concert to save her hometown from evil land developers, there's nothing really that makes the movie stand out from the TV show.
Thin as a flip-flop and as complicated as a scrunchy, the plot is barely enough for half a movie. At the 45-minute point, things are pretty much wrapped up.
The rest of the time it's up to Cyrus to keep things light, and her undeniable charisma radiates from the big screen as strongly as it does on the small one.
Basically super-sizes the formula of the successful television series for a Hannah-hungry audience of multiplex moppets.
...More bittersweet, even melancholy, than it has any right to be.
Best approached as a test as to whether Cyrus has a future career once the hype inevitably blows out. And the answer is...
Hannah Montana: The Movie isn't exactly high art, but that's not really the point, is it?
The characters may be different, but we've seen the formula before in such films as Sweet Home Alabama (2002) and Hope Floats (1998).
As a fan film, Hannah Montana: The Movie rates a 7 or 8 out of 10, but if you judge it straight-up it's probably closer to a 6.
A tweener-mesmerizing mix of music-induced mass hysteria coupled with some homespun cordiality courtesy of a colorful collection of harmless hicks.
A tweener-mesmerizing mix of music-induced mass hysteria coupled with some homespun cordiality courtesy of a colorful collection of harmless hicks.
Combo hick flick musical, big screen image cleanup community service stint and worst of both worlds hide and seek story, while chasing down that playing hard to get ho hum Marlboro boy next door.
The film is sweet and innocent, just as one might expect. While not horrible, I can't heap praise on it either.
...Hannah Montana: The Movie, its light and empty, cotton candy made out of sugar substitute, not the real sweet deal.
It's predictable, it's overacted, it's little more than a longer version of the TV show -- and it's a guaranteed hit among loyal fans of the fictional pop star.
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- Hannah Montana - Der Film (DE)
- Hannah Montana (ES)
