This Time Around

I absolutely digged this movie! It has a very heartwarming, sweet story, kinda makes you think about your own life as well. The acting was great, everyone from B.A. Green and especially Carly Pope, who is a great all-around actress. A real joy to watch. Don't miss it.

This Time around is your standard tv movie fare which is always fun when you're in the mood for it. The previews aired on ABC Family all weekend long back to back and made the movie look really cute. Carly Pope plays a girl who as a eighth grader was a dead ringer for Heather Matarazzo in "Welcome to the dollhouse" (thats not a good thing). She grows up to be cute and runs into the boy who made her life awful in junior high. She and her best friend played by the highlight of the film, funny Sara Rue, decide to make him fall in love and then dump him. If you've ever seen a movie before in your life you know exactly what will happen. This was cute but not nearly as good as it could have been. A very interesting concept that could easily be adapted to the big screen. Watch it when its on television but don't bother recording it. 3/10

As we think back on our junior high and high school days we can all usually remember something traumatic that we went through. How many times have we thought, if we could just go back and change that day. Well, that's where this movie takes you. Carly Pope (Mel) is so adorable in her role and I thought Brian Austin Green (Drew) was just as adorable. When Drew is finally face to face with Mel, knowing who she really is, he handles it so well. Good family movie.

If anything, this teaches you a moral, or two, really. 1. Nerds in High School can be the coolest thing on the planet as adults. 2. Don't get mad, get even. This is a cute family movie, but if you're not really into the whole "the moral of the story is" thing, skip it. But otherwise,see it. It's not bad at all.

The actors are wonderful, everything is great about this movie, so for a movie on ABC Family, it's pretty wonderful and better than other ABC Family original movies. Carly Pope and Brian Austin Green are attractive and have talent. This movie is not really the average romantic comedy, well it is kind of, but really it's original, and different. To know more about this movie...watch it! I recommend it anyway. Also Mel's friend is an interesting character. To know someone in Junior High that you despised because they were popular and then fall in love with them after 11 years, is pretty cool and understandable. The person is DIFFERENT now, ever heard the expression "people change"? Well this movie is meaningful to a lot of people. The whole idea...is different, and fun to imagine. And you don't even have to imagine it because you can just watch the movie.