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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

When I want a movie that simply entertains, I am often disappointed with a movie with foul language or a dark movie when I was promised a comedy. This movie was an absolutely delightful surprise in that it entertained from start to finish. The effects and scenes were not silly but sweet and the music and dancing were icing on the cake. Good acting all around and solid light-hearted entertainment.

Lovestruck: The Musical is the latest in the recent string of made-for- cable musicals and the first of it's kind for ABC Family. Itemploys the "Glee" idea here and covers popular songs as well as original ones, and features such songs as "Just Dance" by Lady Gaga, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" by Whitney Houston "Like A Virgin" by Madonna, "Everlasting Love" by Robert Knight, and "DJ Got Us Falling In Love" by Usher. The storyline is rather silly. A selfish Broadway choreographer and producer travels to Italy to sabotage her daughter's wedding, and ends up drinking a potion that turns her young. Through a series of events, her ex-husband also turns young by drinking the potion and they have to right the wrongs that she did while trying to sabotage everything. The cast is what pulls this one off. Jane Seymour plays the older Harper and Chelsea Kane plays the younger. Kane gets most of the screen time and is engaging and fun to watch. Her singing is mediocre, but her dancing is competent. Seymour may not have been the best casting choice (had I been doing the casting I'd have gone with Bebe Neuwirth). Her singing is dubbed and her dancing is the weakest in the film. Sara Paxton plays the daughter getting married and has an awful solo song that is heavy with auto-tuned production. Paxton, who has always been a favorite of mine, is a competent singer and does not need the auto-tune. Adrienne Bailon is also here as Paxton's horny best friend and maid of honor. Bailon adds her expert vocals to a few songs and also serves a purpose to the plot, unlike Mary J. Blige in "Rock of Ages" who served no purpose in that film. Drew Seeley and Tom Wopat play the ex husband in his younger and older forms. Wopat lays on the comedy thick, and Seeley has never been more charming. He gets to show off his great dancing and singing in the highlight number of the film "DJ Got Us Falling In Love", a duet with Kane. It's also nice to see Wopat's singing skills not wasted. The cast is rounded out by Alexander DiPersia, who is unmemorable, if flat as Paxton's reformed philanderer husband-to-be.As a whole, Lovestruck is silly, and at times overly cutesy, but has several moments of amusing comedy and fun music. It seemed to get lost in it's musical numbers at times. "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" seems to go on forever, as did "Like A Virgin". It also seemed to be emulating "Mamma Mia" too much, with it's foreign locale and daughter getting married plot. Some of the choreography was hokey in the ending sequence (i.e. the cast bending into each other making a heart with their arms from the bride and groom to walk under). Despite a lot of it's flaws, I still found it to be an engaging hour and a half.

Okay, I kind of loved this movie. The song sequences were great, and I loved all the dancing, mostly because I can't dance to save my life and it fascinates me to watch other people do it. I like how it gets right up into the meat of the plot really quickly - HOWEVER, I didn't like how long it took for her husband to come on the scene and how short a time Drew Seeley was there. He was the main reason I watched it and I was really disappointed by that. I think it would have been interesting had they explored the concept of her becoming young forever more thoroughly; to me it seemed like a thrown-in point that resolved itself too quickly, and left it up for a sequel. (Maybe they find another bottle?) And maybe it could be about where the bottle came from in the first place, too.

I rather enjoyed this movie. Sure, the plot's predictable, but the songs that they choose fit the scenes so well that it kinda makes up for it. With that being said, I think they sort of overdid the songs they had in the movie; sure, the performances were great, but they literally had a song in almost EVERY SCENE, which kind of bogged down the movie. But the part with the dad turning young was fun, especially the dance her and the mom do to Usher's DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love; it's probably the best part of the movie. All in all, it was a decent and kinda cute movie, but would probably have been better off as a Broadway musical. Just saying.