The Lizzie McGuire Movie

The fim that I am about to review is The Lizzie McGuire Movie, which is a comedy film based on the Walt Disney Channel show, Lizzie McGuire; which was released in

Early Summer, 2003, by Walt disney Pictures. The Movie mainly concentrates upon a promoted Junior High Chiq named Lizzie (which is played by Hilary Duff) who

goes on a class trip to rome.

Generally, the movie had gathered not much on positive feedbacks from the critics, yet was able to number 2 in the States box office release in the early May of 2003.

The filming took about over an half year, from late 2002, to the early 2003.
As then in February 2004, a DVD of the Movie came out for general viewing.

The quality cast was starring artists like Hilary Duff, playing the role of Elizabth “Lizzie” Brooke McGuire & Isabella Parigi, Adam Lamberg as “Gordo” who’s Lizzie’s

best friend.
Robert Carradine, Hallie Todd, Jake Thomas, from completing the McGuire Family. Also staring where Yani Gellman as Paolo Valisari, Alex borstein as Miss

Ungermeyer and even more.

To movie, as mentioned earlier [just to emphasize again] talks about ones typical teenage girls life, that got a bit messed up due to sort of stuff. Just the opening

scene, in which Lizzie is preparing herself for her graduation has been mischievously spied by her younger Brother Matt with a radio controlled truck, fitted with a

video camera.

Before the 15-minute mark, she is photographed falling into the tub (clothed); her former best friend, Kate Sanders (played by Ashlie Brillault), who has been an

enemy is infuriated with Lizzie for wearing the same dress she wore to the school dance(under her graduation gown). She is forced to make a speech in place of the

class president, Margaret Chan, (even though she was treasurer and “only handled the petty cash” in the Student Council) with no notice by a demeaning teacher (he

frequently tells her “you’re no Margaret Chan”); . Also, it is in this scene that the audience finds out Miranda (played by Lalaine) is in Mexico City. Then Lizzie trips on

the backdrop, which topples over everyone on stage. Subsequently, this footage was secretly sent in to “Good Morning America” by her younger brother, although it

was made more popular internationally by CNN.

When Lizzie arrives at the airport with her family, her new high school principal, Miss Ungermeyer (played by Alex Borstein) appears driving in a cart, blowing a whistle.

She insults parents and students alike using a communications headset connected to a portable P.A. system. She plainly listens to nobody and even calls Lizzie’s

best guy friend, Gordo (played by Adam Lamberg) “a sneaky brown-noser with a hidden agenda”, and it goes downhill from there. In a nod to the contemporary “The

Lord of the Rings”, the principal calls her students Halflings (i.e. hobbits) during the trip, emphasizing the power imbalance she’s able to maintain.

In Hotel Cambini, in Rome, Kate is assigned as Lizzie’s roommate. She then seems to offer to understand Lizzie’s desire to avoid embarrassment and realize her

dreams, only to irritate Lizzie the moment she lured her in by saying, “You can’t do it alone. In fact, I don’t think you can do it at all.”

After Miss Ungermeyer takes them to the famous Trevi Fountain, she calls anyone who makes a wish there a sucker. Lizzie throws a coin over her head into the

fountain. Her wish is to sail smoothly through school (as revealed by her animated alter-ego), but is seemingly answered immediately with a handsome Italian

17-year-old, named Paolo, who greets her. He turns out to be a famous European pop star named Paolo (Yani Gellman), and Lizzie looks just like his also famous

girlfriend, Isabella (Hilary Duff), except their hair is a different color (Lizzie is a blonde and Isabella is a brunette). They meet again while touring the city, and fans rush

up, calling out “Isabella!” and posing for pictures. Paolo asks her to meet him again and then kisses her hand (the picture makes the front page of a tabloid later on).

Lizzie sees a billboard showing Paolo embracing fellow singing sensation Isabella, but Paolo tells Lizzie that he and Isabella have broken up.

Gordo suggests that they “seek adventure together” and that Lizzie goes first (as he had sacrificed wishing at the fountain). He suggests that she play sick the next day,

to sneak away from the group. Lizzie gives Gordo a little kiss, after which Ethan Craft (Gordo’s roommate) pops into the room and suggests Gordo likes Lizzie more

than a friend and that he move the relationship along; Gordo demurs, saying he just likes Lizzie as a friend. The next day, Lizzie and Paolo dash off for a musical

interlude on a motorbike, while Paolo’s bodyguard follows in a Mercedes convertible. Paolo convinces Lizzie to pretend to be Isabella at “The International Music

Video Awards” that will be televised worldwide.

Lizzie continues to pretend to be sick the next day, and drives off with Paolo (this time not tracked by his bodyguard) to an expensive dress shop. Gordo, meanwhile,

sees Lizzie’s picture on an Italian magazine and trades an introduction to his roommate to two Italian girls for it (and a promised translation). Lizzie then gets a

makeover, orchestrated by the owner of the dress shop with a scary little dog.

Just when her scheme is about to be discovered, Gordo sacrifices himself, telling the chaperone that Lizzie has been covering for him. Gordo is kicked off the trip. But,

just as he’s about to board the plane home, he sees the real Isabella at the airport and discovers the truth about Paolo. Gordo and Isabella race to the music event to

stop Paolo from making a fool of Lizzie on stage. Paolo’s plan was to show the world that Isabella couldn’t sing, when in truth it was Paolo that was the bad singer and

lip-synched while performing. Isabella and Gordo pull the plug on Paolo’s mic, exposing him, and Lizzie ends up singing “What Dreams are Made of” (the “theme

song” of the film) in front of the huge audience inside the Colosseum with her parents and classmates cheering her on in the crowd while Gordo stands backstage and

watches Lizzie perform.

Later at the hotel, the characters celebrate. Matt tries to sell his video footage to Giorgio, the former commander of the Italian navy and Hotel Cambini’s manager, but

Giorgio replies “When in Rome…we do not blackmail our older sisters,” and he tosses the video into a fountain, much to Matt’s dismay. Meanwhile, Paolo’s now

ex-bodyguard Sergei has formed a new relationship with the high school principal. Lizzie and Gordo sneak away from the after party and go up to the roof to talk.

Gordo reassures Lizzie that things will be just as good when they go back home and that he always believed in her. Lizzie and Gordo then awkwardly kiss. The film

ends with the both of them returning to the after party because they can’t afford getting into more trouble as we see the fireworks and Animated Lizzie as Tinker Bell.

I interpred the whole movie, as well as it’s message to the audience in this very way:
Everything is possible, even the best things in life may go on wrong at any point in time. Most especially the BEST things, since their loss, would mean much torment

to us. We should enjoy life, enjoy what we have, look upon what we posses, rather dreaming about the unthinkable, unreachable desire of our mind and heart. We

shouldn’t dwell about the things we’d really like to have in life, but smile upon what we have received. Since what we have right now in our life, is definitely better than

nothing.

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