snperera
well what can I say about this?!! How amazing and how great is this show! This is my childhood. Shia was so great in this show! He is so funny as Louis and he really took the role to heart! I love the chemistry between the sister and Shia. They really act like how a sister and a brother would act in real life. I loved how simple the show was as well. I also loved the parents in this show and Louis's friends as well. They add great chemistry and comedy to the show as well. I will always love the show. I loved that they showed that no matter how much the siblings fought that they loved each other and that they would do anything for each other. Louis is such a likable character as well.
Ball Bags
I loved this show so much! It was one of the best things Disney ever produced out of the 1990s. At least I feel like I can laugh at the show by myself (so to speak) without an annoying laugh track finding all of the jokes for me (it seems to be Disney's crime to produce unfunny shows with unfunny episodes that produce unfunny plot devises and jokes that have an audience finding the jokes for you. But even when they find the jokes for you, they're not funny!).The thing I mostly liked about this show was the fact the it was realistic. I never grew up in the US so I never experienced lots of the things, but from what I've heard, this show makes the life and times of a (a bit stereotypically) accurate. Just a NORMAL American family with two siblings that always fight in and out of school.Lovely show; really realistic - 10/10
Pepper Anne
Even Stevens, surprisingly only on the air for three years, was great entertainment for teenage audiences (and younger ones, too) for the simple fact that Shia La Beouf can really make you laugh.The Stevens are your typical Disney-esquire family arrangement. Concerned mother, sometimes doofus father, stupid older son, brainy over achieving daughter, and the cooky youngest son, Louis (La Beouf). Over time, many members of the family receded from the spotlight as the plots eventually came to revolve more and more around the trials and tribulations of Ren, the older sister, and Louis. Often, their individual adventures and misadventures conflicted with one another. Somehow, Louis's wild, happy-go-lucky plans for fun and mischief often got in the way of Ren's quest for perfection and all the honest values her character consistently espouses. So often, they would butt heads, but in a way that ended in those moralistic endings with sister and brother getting along in the end.But, really, despite a more dominant presence of Christy Romano, who played Ren, Shia La Beouf was the pure gem of the show, and probably the biggest catch for audiences, particularly among young girls who would love the goofy mischief of Louis and his equally goofy friend, Twitty (AJ Trauth). Beouf has a natural ability to really make you laugh, even though you're just watching a silly and albeit, corny, Disney television series for younger kids. Especially, during the shows when Louis and Twitty were trying to buy brand name shoes to fit in with the fleeting fashion tastes of their fellow classmates; when they formed the band and had a real superficial rock n' roll experience with the full rise and fall of success and friendship; when they made the student film; or when Twitty and Louis took over the janitor's closet to create their own authentic Mexican fiesta lounge. These kids really knew how to make you laugh, and the writers took advantage of that, by creating some bizarre and funny situations for the young actors.Even Stevens is a funny show because it doesn't hang on to the tired obsessions that other young characters on television may do like Lizzy Macguire or the terrible range of sitcoms on the WB where it is all a high school drama over boyfriends and girlfriends. Even Stevens offered a lot more and was more of a show about camaraderie.I suspect the show came to an end when it's young stars really got too old to play their respective parts, what with La Beouf and Trauth both approaching their late teens and Romano approaching her early twenties (and Donny, the eldest, approaching his forties, no less). But it was an innocent, funny show that I recommend younger audiences trying out. Unfortunately, Disney reruns the same ones over and over. But check it out. La Beouf won't disappoint you.
RugbyDaveMN
i'm not going to write some huge thing about this show.its easy to sum up:this show is hilarious. i'm 23 at university. This show isn't just for younger kids, its actually wraught full of adult themes and humor, also. Shia and AJ (louis and twitty) are amazing actors and deliver lines in such a natural and funny way -- it reminds me of me and my buddy matt growing up!The show is great. watch it. don't miss it. period in other words, one of the funniest shows out there (besides Invader Zim and Upright Citizens Brigade)... don't be surprised when you find out there's an underground cult that follows this show's every steps!enjoy!
