Truly Dreadful Film

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Okay, maybe most of the 7 is Jamie, Kay Panabaker, who in this movie seems a lovely creature. But I latched onto something in this picture which made me watch it till the end. For a movie aimed at, and I hate the word Tweens, it has a lot for adults to chew over too. The double personality was an interesting twist and not entirely coherent one, especially after watching it more than once. The whole pizzeria angle was hard to believe, why would anyone buy bad pizza, and how would it survive more than a few months. However the last thing I expect is realism concerning business in movies. But the themes of writing, reading and literacy is rare for this age group. Where is this movie set, it looks like Vancouver in the background?

In the book version, the main character had an older sister. Looks like they made a good call having an older brother instead.Nick Whitaker didn't do much in High School Musical, but it was his turn to shine on Read It and Weep. Gotta love that brown sunburst electric guitar he played (have that same guitar myself, only it's black). But it was heartbreaking that Jamie found his guitar destroyed in half and placed in a trash can.The big surprise was when he played the guitar & sang "I Will Be Around". The kids dancing to that tune, made me laugh, even the principal! When I think of Read It and Weep, I can't get that song out of my head! Good job, Nick Whitaker.

I sit down with my family to watch this so-called "G-rated" movie one summer (this being this summer) because I like my family so much. At first, I didn't even want to come near this movie because it seemed too girlish and embarrassing. So, I viewed at my own risk.I noticed the very familiar motifs this movie had, along with other bad Disney and Disney Channel works at the time: cheerleading, loving, and wicked stuff.But wait!!!!! My brother claimed to hear an OMG hidden somewhere in the movie (not unlike the "Lion King" "SFX" incident), and so I thought to myself, "Oh, yes. My family's too censor- worthy." So, I got sent to my room (at 19; wow, that's something!!!!!) and thanks to that, I couldn't watch "Match Game" and "Will It Float" later that night; the same went with many of the other nights.So really; Disney Channel thinks it's NOT OKAY for kids to see martial arts action, but it's OKAY to hear blasphemy????? Golly, I wish the FCC shut down this now joke-of-a-channel!!!!!And, if y'all are curious of the "Will It Float" situation on Letterman that night, I'll never know!!!!! The site never said!!!!! LOL this stinks so much1/10

After reading a few messages about the book on IMDb, I knew I had to watch this. Prior to it's airing, I heard of the original title, and later had visions in my head of Danielle Panabaker dressed in a cheap superhero costume, fighting villains in the same manner as Rik Mayall's "People's Poet" from an episode of "The Young Ones," spouting out catchphrases so lame that even Archie comics wouldn't use them. Well, I was a little far from that, but still saw a fairly interesting story.Kay Panabaker plays Jamie Bartlett, a girl struggling to survive the hierarchy of high school social life. She has three best friends, including one boy who has an obvious crush on her. Her father, ex-Even Stevens dad and legendary announcer Tom Virtue, runs a pizza parlor with her mother(Connie Young), and tries to experiment in oddball toppings. Jamie deals with the repressive tyranny of high school life by writing in a personal journal on a tablet computer, using fictional characters loosely based on the people she knows there. When she gets it mixed up with a school article for school and sends it off to be published in a school newspaper, the whole world finds out about it and her life starts to fall apart. Sounds like "Harriet the Spy," you say? Nope. Because unlike Harriet M. Welch, Jamie's private diary has an alter-ego, a semi-super-heroine named "Is," played by Kay's older sister Danielle... or at least that's what she is at first. Besides that, at first most people like her writing including her enemies. The Great Isabella(Is) is sort of like Kim Possible with superpowers. She can do anything -- climb a rope in the gym, stroll through the halls of school zapping it's tormentors into permanent(or at least long-term) detention, get the boy of her dreams with ease, and appear only in front of Jamie. She also evolves from a heroine into a monster. Through Is, Jamie gains fortune and fame, gets her parents' pizza place some more business, gets to hang out with the school snobs who used to torment her, gets the boy of her dreams, and unfortunately nearly loses her friends, then everything else when she inadvertently reveals the inspiration for the villains in her book on a talk show. Who's going to get her out of this mess? Her parents? Her handler? Her protagonist? Her friends? The boy she loves? The boy who loves her? Like Lizzie McGuire's Ashlie Brillault, Jamie's nemesis(Allison Scagliotti) looks much better than Jamie. Even when the trailers were shown, there's no doubting Kay's resemblance to her sister. Beyond that, she wears more make up than her older sister did in "Stuck in the Suburbs." The ending seems somewhat predictable, and unfortunately not believable. I don't think that after a Carrie-style attack on a high school dance, that the kids would be ready to get back into the music. But I suppose if you don't have incidents like these at school functions, they tend to become lame.Some may see this as an excuse to get Danielle and Kay Panabaker to work together on the same project. That's okay by me. I saw Twitches(2005)(TV) as a lame excuse to keep the Mowry Sisters together one last time. Better DCOMs than this have existed, but this one is okay.