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Good movie but grossly overrated

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A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Movies like this always crack me up. They try and appear hip and trendy, but they end up looking like low budget direct to video titles. Jenna is about as basic as a girl gets. I don't find her attractive at all making this subject matter of the film that more laughable. I'll give her a B+ on body, but that face is beyond butta. She can dance, there is no question about it, but her acting skills are on par with the likes of Paris Hilton. I'm sure this movie was inspired by Carrie and went on to inspire movies like Jennifer's Body, but if you are planning on this film having any substance, you will be extremely disappointed with the product. I don't recognize any or the cast of this film, so I am going to assume they were nobody's when they were cast and never got another or better break after this film. I really can't say anything positive about this movie, it was the definition of horrible.

A shy and somewhat homely high school girl named "Tamara Riley" (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) writes an article for her school newspaper concerning steroid use among some of the student body and some people affected by this revelation seek their revenge upon her. So they trick her into believing that her English teacher, "Bill Natolly" (Michael Marsden), who she has a crush on, is waiting for her in a hotel room. Once there they videotape her taking her clothes off and getting into bed. When she realizes she's been duped a struggle ensues and she is killed. But what the students who set her up don't realize is that she is a witch and has cast a spell upon herself which brings her back to life. Only this time she is neither shy nor homely. But she is very vengeful. At any rate, in my opinion this movie was surprisingly good. The acting was fine as was the script and the cinematography. One particular fault was the students generally looked older than what you would find in a typical high school. But that often happens with movies of this type so it isn't anything unusual. And while the plot was hardly novel the film did have several attractive women in Katie Stuart ("Chloe"), Melissa Marie Elias ("Keesha") and the aforementioned Jenna Dewan-Tatum. Worth a watch for those who like films of this type.

Tamara is the kind of ugly girl that only the movies could conjure up. By that I mean it doesn't take much for her to be stunning. Highly flawed and yet somehow it manages to entertain. It's pretty much Carrie all over again, with a few tweaks here and there. Best of all is Jenna Dewan who does look incredible. I don't think she needed witchcraft to make people do what she wanted. There's also some scenes which aren't present in every slasher/horror. Most notably a rather gruesome self-mutilation. There are members of the cast you expect were cast for something other than their acting ability, but you'll also get some cheap thrills.

The first half of Tamara really drew me in. Although extremely derivative, it looked like maybe it could do some really interesting things. Unfortunately by the last third, it has turned into a series of chases that are heartbreaking in their unoriginality. I really thought this one would be special.It begins with a group of high schoolers picking on a nerdy classmate, who then dies during a humiliating prank. They agree to cover up her death, binding them together by a vow of silence. Right away, we know that everyone in this group is going to have something terrible happen to them, most likely one at a time so that the movie can fill its running time with several different devices of death and/or dismemberment. What we didn't expect was for Tamara to show up at school the next day with a glossy new look and a renewed sense of determination for seducing her English teacher.I don't care enough to list the positives and the negatives. There were things that I liked, and I did stay interested to the end, except during some of the generic chase scenes that could have come out of any number of horror/thrillers. I would have really liked more character development instead of the time they wasted having characters run around the hospital (which looked deserted despite the fact that patients WERE being treated there). The bottom line is, I felt like a lot more could have been done with this idea. Maybe the filmmakers even had more planned for us, but decided to save it for the sequel. They might never get to make it, but they made sure, in the final moment of this film, they would really like to do one.