Sunday School Musical

The writing should be called High School Writing.....at best! A predictable story line, low production value and a flat script make for a very irritating 93 minutes. on a positive note i found a cure for my insomnia.It's very boring. It reminds me of when my friends and I would get together and make home movies....when we really didn't know what we were doing. Editing was all over the place,maybe better suited for a horror movie but not a Sunday School Musical.The story never went anywhere that you didn't expect it too. As I said before very predictable. I really said everything in the summery but IMDb requires you to write ten lines.

The Asylum have definitely done much worse than Sunday School Musical, that's saying little though because Sunday School Musical didn't work for this viewer. There are some redeeming value, Chris Chatman was likable as Zachary and had a great voice, the ending song was at least catchy and the best lyrics in the movie were in this song and the dance in the boy's bathroom is the most creative Sunday School Musical gets. The photography and camera work are pretty awful to say the least(like bad horror movie standard), to the extent you question whether there was a photographer at all. And it disallowed me to remotely enjoy the rest of the production values, which weren't that special actually to begin with. The songs are unmemorable with generic melodies and tired lyric writing, and the mostly tuneless singing and choreography that shows next to no passion don't help. The writing has cheesiness all over it, the spirituality and faith angles were good ideas but explored with the utmost banality. That the story is predictable is somewhat predictable, that it has no energy, real fun or passion isn't. The characters infuriate in how they behave and how they act towards one another, shallow is the best way to describe them, while apart from Chatman the acting is very poor, Candice Lakota has a decent voice but is a vapid actress. Overall, not terrible but at best lacklustre. 3/10 Bethany Cox

Move over, Buttercream Gang. You've been dethroned as the lamest movie ever made. This is so bad, you guys. This is not only LAAAAAAME, but one of the most incompetantly made films I've ever seen. Acting that ranges from flat to okay, half-hearted songs, awkward editing and ATROCIOUS sound. A good chunk of the sound sounds like it was dubbed. The volume fluctuates constantly. One moment I can barely hear them talk, and the next it's BLASTING the main character's sad song that I don't care about.

Highly recommend, especially if you saw it the same day as Threads. I laughed my ass off the entire time.

The Asylum is a company known for making shoddy knockoff products or rather mockbusters. I'm not quite sure what the difference between those two things is. This is an obvious ripoff of "High School Musical" which a lot of people hated to begin with. HSM at least has the distinction of being the first in the series and having (somewhat of) a budget. You could easily see the budget was so low they couldn't even have extras in most scenes. HSM was way better with that! This was a bad religious movie before most bad religious movies like "Left Behind", "God's Not Dead" and "Saving Christmas".

I guess bad religious movies have always been around. I'm actually glad this wasn't a mockbuster of something supernatural or else we'd see horrible special effects. This movie is extremely boring with bad acting. There's one scene where the kid just gets mad on a rooftop with leads to no dancing or anything. Why is the main character so mad about moving when he can easily travel back to his old place all the time? Watch "Bridge To Terabithia", once again, for a good religious movie. *1/2

Before I set out to watch this movie, I checked out the reviews here and a few users believed this movie was worth every cent they forked out for it. I, on the other hand, after watching the movie, strongly believe otherwise. For most parts, the movie dabbled in some teen angst like moving away from your friends and participating in competitions and so on and so forth. And that was pretty much it. Not to mention the songs sounded particularly like a Boyz II Men karaoke compilation throughout. Their acting was nothing shy of mediocre and I was cringing for most times whenever they aren't breaking out into some dance or song. To be precise, their acting was very forced and amateur-ish. It wasn't very entertaining in other words and if you are already a HSM fan, please do not proceed to ruin your movie experience by watching this.