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Raise Your Voice (2004)
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Movie Review by Tony 
March 31st, 2006
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Raise Your Voice" Hilary Duff's latest movie tricked me. The first 20 minutes played out like a decently smart, intelligent, teenage drama with Hilary Duff really nailing her dramatic roles down very well. I thought, finally at last, a teen movie that does not follow the normal vomiting inducing cliches. But I spoke too soon.
Hilary Duff plays Terri a girl who loves to sing and has a natural talent. Eventually with encouragement from her mom, brother, and Aunt decides to well .. you know .. go for it. Her and her brother sneak out one night to attend a Three Day's Grace concert and on the way home, a tragic accident occurs and her brother is killed and she survives.
She has to live with this and feels somewhat responsibility for what occurs. Since she convinced him to sneak out with her. The father does not want her to go out to a music school in LA because as he says "bad things happen in LA". So Terri's mother and their Aunt Nina scheme up a lie that Terri is staying with the aunt far way for a few weeks. When in reality she is at the music school.
I found that plot line utterly useless and you knew it was setting up for the cliche and stereotypical ending of the performer is on the stage performing and near the middle of the performance, the unsporting parent walks in and nods and realizes now they finally understand and support the kid chasing their dream.
Of course there is the cute, adorable, sweet boy who Hilary falls for but he has the mean girlfriend who battles with Hilary who is the sweet, naive, nice girl. I can't remember the last time we viewed THAT in a movie. *rolls eyes*
Of course all the people are snotty and mean at the start, then eventually they warm up to Hilary and are her friends. Of course her brother's death holds her back and she is unsure of herself. But she has the encouraging teacher who supports her and tells her to go for it.
The unsporting dad. So many cliches I could not take it. Hilary Duff is very charming, sweet, and fun to watch. But I think it's seriously about time to start finding new, challenging and smart roles for her. She is stuck in these after school special, corny, repetitive, lame child movies.
This movies run too long and didn't have the nerve to try anything different or engage us in any ways that we had not seen in countless teen movies before.There was no need to make this movie and really no need to see it.
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 | Zach
Feb 27, 2007 11:19 AM
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I know Hilary Duff movies are boring and lame but this film and Material Girls I actually liked
I didnt think they were amazing they were just better than half of her other movies
I also like A Cinderella Story from her
I think she needs to grow up and pick better scripts!! |
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