Demi Lovato: Child Star

I put this on in the background while I was doing some work...I soon realized I'd stopped working and was just watching. I've not followed Demi Levoto's career, and only know what I know about her through the media. Hearing her story told like that was eye-opening and gave me a new respect for her and what she's been through.

I would have liked to hear more from the other child stars, however I did feel that what they contributed was valuable in painting a fairly clear picture of the impacts of the industry. It also would have been nice to dig a little deeper into child stars of the past as well, however I did appreciate that it included insight people from multiple roles in and around the industry.

Definitely worth a watch!

Some directors like to make themselves a part of the project, much to the detriment of the project. Nas is guilty of making himself part of docs he directs. Demi Lovato apparently does the same. This is a movie about her experience with child stardom, with some comments from other people who experienced similar. That being said, nothing was new in the doc, just rehashed information she previously included in other projects, with one exception: most states, Florida included, don't have Coogan Laws to protect the income of children; similarly, there seem to be zero (or one with Washington State) that protect child internet performers' incomes. Otherwise, the doc is a massive waste of time.

The documentary is most about Demi, I mean, she's the director and it was her own story who inspired her to make this documentary. The other stars have their part and they're very vulnerable and add a lot to the conversation, and it's good to have different generations on it. It's importante to have more stuff like this. It raises awareness about such important topic. The only negative thing I can think is that maybe they could go deeper, cause Demi has said she was abused on Disney, so I would like they speak about it, but I think it was intentional, maybe she didn't want to go that deep. I enjoyed the doc, it's really easy to digest.

Coming into it you expect to hear inside stories and raw emotions from former child stars. Unfortunately you get one child stars story and slightly cooked emotions with the same old stories that we have heard before form Demi. I feel like I barely know the other child stars featured in this documentary, which for something that claimed to show what child stardom is really like and how it affects people later on in life, it doesn't really feel like I got any of that. Christina Ricci, Drew Barrymore, Kenan Thompson, Raven Symone are all amazing actors and whom I wish I got more in depth interviews from. We know Demi's story. Let's hear from some other people. I also didn't learn much of past child stars like Judy Garland or Shirley Temple. The documentary tried to cover over 100 years of child stardom by including current child star JoJo Siwa and the current fascination of YouTube Kids. I didn't really get the meaning or theme behind this documentary. Needed more refinement and a better vision statement.

There was too many people in this short time to get into anything other than surface level, this should have been a series with one child star per episode. Hour long for each person, details of struggles and lack of support in The industry and how they coped and got to survive today, so disappointing.

Think it is commendable though to be at least approaching these topics and having Demi as the lead made sense.

Please can someone try this again with more grit. Alyson has so much to her history and we heard hardly any of it just that her and Demi half got on half didn't but understood each other...