Matialth
Good concept, poorly executed.
Voxitype
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Haven Kaycee
It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film
Melanie-burford
My daughter says we should give this film one million stars! It is a lovely film about how our lives can change in a flash, and we can learn new things about ourselves.It is about a princess from far away who has to go to stay with her bodyguards family for her own protection. However, she has to pretend that she is not a princess anymore, and just an ordinary girl. she has lots of adventures, some of them are quite funny, some of them very dramatic.This is a good film to teach children moral values. It has some lovely costumes and scenery in it.The story line is very good.There is some good acting in it.
Melisa Zielinsky
First of all, this movie leaves a sweet message about the friendship and how tho different worlds collides. Its not the typical teenage movie from Disney that we are used to watch, It have a new direction. The idea about that one of the main characters talk in Spanish and show different cultures it's so catchy. The relationship that the characters of Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato play are so unique. This relation shows how two lives can be similar in some way. Selena take the place of a ordinary girl that have a agent dad that helped Demi from the government problem that was in her country. Demi have to learned how to live a typical life in United States because she is from an Spanish country. This movie have a little bit of everything, friendship, love, government issues, and moments that happened in everybody's life ( like high school's election for princess of the prom) The characters have a great chemistry and it seems like that they have a great time during the filming period of the movie. Also the music plays a very important part in the movie. The voices of Selena and Demi are in all the movie, and it makes the film so much better. In conclusion, if you want to see a funny and sweet movie this is your chance. Don't hear the bad critics about this movie just because it is a movie of Disney. You are going to spend a great time watching it.
nourhan95
I admit I am a fan of some Disney movies and not a fan of Demi Lovato. I went to see this movie expecting to be disappointed in her. The only reason people even saw this movie was because it had Selena Gomez & Demi Lovato in it, for all they cared, the movie would have been named "Hong Kong Kung Fu Chury" & They still would have seen this. So for the same reasons people go to see "Snakes on a Plane", to see some actual snakes on a actual plane. This movie was made to serve the actresses and did no significance to the audience. Its basically them bouncing and popping around the camera. I came out disappointed in 3 totally different things. This film had 3 major flaws and Demi's acting ability or lack thereof was the least of this films worries and truthfully, though I don't think Demi can act her way out of a paper bag, her performance didn't help the film, I think she was the same as she was in her other Disney movies (Camp Rock, etc). However, this film lacks the 3 C's. Cohesion, Chemistry and Character development. Lets start with Cohesion.Cohesion: For those that don't know what cohesion means, its the glue that holds and strings things together, makes it flow seamlessly. If you have A-C cohesion would be "B". There were a lot of A's and C's no B's.This film left you wondering many times "how did we get here?" Lets put aside the fact that Demi is in a new country and doesn't know how to fit in. I found it very interesting how she got around so well with just having got there. There was no explanation for much of anything at all and at times it appeared that things were thrown in just to have an excuse to have a love interest, or for how quickly her co-star Selena Gomez started to befriend her. Did you at any point feel "this movie is dragging along?" Which brings me to...Chemistry: There was none AT ALL, it felt like a 1 night stand. No ones performance made me give a damn about their cause. Some say well Miley Cyrus didn't give an Oscar worthy performance in Hannah Montana the movie. Well she didn't have to be Daniel Day Lewis in the film because she and her co-stars had chemistry. Selena Gomez was raw and natural and her comedic timing and seriousness was on point half of the time. She was decent in the movie, but did not bond well with Demi. The rest of the co=stars were thrown in there for the sake of having stereotypical characters, basically they were cardboard fillers. which takes me to my final point..Character development: It is hard to have cohesiveness and chemistry if your characters are poorly developed. Yes this is only a Disney movie and don't lie and say its not. Some of the exact same dialogue, exact same scenarios, changing the country and training/learning tools does not really develop throughout the movie. But how you can not build the characters is beyond me. Again, Selena's dad was just in their for the sake of her having a father. He did a lot of non sensible things, what kind of parent would leave their 16 year old daughter alone for 3 days?. The story was just awful, and everything felt rushed. I am recommending not to see this because its flat out boring. Oh and Demi dialogue near the end after she was rescued, sounded like she was tired of filming and just wanted to get the lines over with. Now see HSM may not be excellent, but at least you cared about the character and the supporting cast. Remove the characters from this film and see what difference it makes. Meaning, if you take out Chad from HSM, you will feel something is missing. Remove the boys from this one and any cause could replace her, not saying they wasn't good at their role, it just wasn't memorable or necessary.I'll put it like this, when you walked away from the HSM and even to this day, you don't call Vanessa Hudgens, Vanessa Hudgens, you see her photo and you say "that's Gabriella" or with Miley Cyrus, you would say "Hannah Montana!". Their characters were believable. You walk from this and its Selena Gomez & Demi Lovato. Poor character development, poor story. The end.I'm giving this a 3 star because the only thing I liked about that movie was Selena Gomez's white dress from the premiere. I thought that was gorgeous. Which brings me to my next point that has been bugging me from the moment I saw Demi Lovato. Demi is u-g-l-y. Ugly. There, I said it.
bkoganbing
With all the hype that the Magic Kingdom has been giving this film over the past several months, I expected something a lot better from the Princess Protection Program. I think most kids even those who look at stars Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez as role models and they're not bad ones either, would find this film just too much.Selena is the daughter of widower Tom Verica who is the owner of a bait shop in the bayous of Louisiana and also works for the CIA. He just finished a mission where he rescued a princess from a small Caribbean island nation which just had a military coup. Now he's deposited Princess Demi Lovato with his daughter and drawn her into his other life.Selena's mission and she's got no choice but to accept it is to make Lovato blend in like a normal teen, at least a normal teen in the Disney view. From the politics of Lovato's nation to the politics of Gomez's high school, the two girls get off to a rocky start, but in the end become great pals.In the pattern of what they do at Disney Studios when they have successful stars from successful shows they always try to mix and match and team these stars in film projects. This was one case where the film idea was so preposterous no matter how appealing these two young women are, they simply couldn't put it over. They're both far better at their Disney shows than in this film.I mean really, CIA dad gets daughter to help out on one of his missions? I don't think Princess Protection Program would have ever been made if Disney himself was around, though perhaps for different reasons than I didn't like it.
