Read It and Weep (2006)

I sit down with my family to watch this so-called "G-rated" movie one summer (this being this summer) because I like my family so much. At first, I didn't even want to come near this movie because it seemed too girlish and embarrassing. So, I viewed at my own risk.I noticed the very familiar motifs this movie had, along with other bad Disney and Disney Channel works at the time: cheerleading, loving, and wicked stuff.But wait!!!!! My brother claimed to hear an OMG hidden somewhere in the movie (not unlike the "Lion King" "SFX" incident), and so I thought to myself, "Oh, yes. My family's too censor- worthy." So, I got sent to my room (at 19; wow, that's something!!!!!) and thanks to that, I couldn't watch "Match Game" and "Will It Float" later that night; the same went with many of the other nights.So really; Disney Channel thinks it's NOT OKAY for kids to see martial arts action, but it's OKAY to hear blasphemy????? Golly, I wish the FCC shut down this now joke-of-a-channel!!!!!And, if y'all are curious of the "Will It Float" situation on Letterman that night, I'll never know!!!!! The site never said!!!!! LOL this stinks so much1/10

Ya know, when we first started watching this movie I thought, "Hmmm... Interesting premise." A girl, Jamie Bartlett (Kay Panabaker), finds a headband that helps her to have an alter ego "Is" (played by Danielle Panabaker, her older sister.) Using the people she meets at school as characters in her journal, "Is" has many fantastical journeys the when the book is published causes Jamie to have instant success. During one of her classes the cutest guy in school, Marco (played by Chad Broskey) had to read a poem, she instantly falls in love with him.This is when the "typical" aspect of it starts to come out. Once she becomes famous she starts to turn her back on her friends, who consist of two girls and one boy; Connor. (who is also madly in love with Jamie but is too scared to say anything). As it turns out he was the one who wrote the poem that caused Jamie to fall in love with Marco. Now her friends, alienated, start to not like Jamie anymore. But its during one fateful television interview that Jamie inadvertently lets the cat out of the bag when she refers to a character in the book but uses the name of the girl that she based the character on. This causes everyone to turn against Jamie. (Wow, didn't see that one coming) Everyone except Marco. But this is to be expected considering he's the only one who wasn't bashed in the book.Once the truth comes out and and everyone hates her the only person who really sticks up for her is Connor. When everyone else is writing "Letters to the Editor" to the school newspaper hes the only one who writes something good. Recognizing the writing style as the same one that wrote the poem that she loved so much earlier on she believes it to be Marco who wrote it.Flash forward to the big dance. Shes talking to Marco and finds out that he didn't write the poem or the letter to the editor. She finds out it was Connor. She gets called up to the stage to be awarded for something that she had no part of. The decorations for the dance. Her friends and her had originally signed up to do it but once her book became famous she ditched them for her new friends (the cool people). {{Again, typical Disney movie style.}} Anyway, once she gets on stage everyone starts booing her, and she comes to realize what she must do. She apologizes for everything and runs out to catch Connor before he leaves. Its the same formula that is used in many Disney/children's movies. Its quite predictable. However, that being said, I thought it was a very cute and sweet movie.

I found another goof while watching the movie. When Jamie is reading the positive article about herself in the paper that Connor wrote, she reads... "She didn't lie or slander us, she merely saw through our masks." But when the camera shows the paper it reads "She didn't lie or slander us, she merely reflected what is out there." Just thought i should let you know! I really liked Read it and Weep! It is one of my favorite Disney Channel movies. I loved the characters and the plot of the movies. it's great for kids but it has that edge so that teens can like the movie too. I loved that they had both Panabaker sisters in this movie, and i thought they both were great in this movie!

After reading a few messages about the book on IMDb, I knew I had to watch this. Prior to it's airing, I heard of the original title, and later had visions in my head of Danielle Panabaker dressed in a cheap superhero costume, fighting villains in the same manner as Rik Mayall's "People's Poet" from an episode of "The Young Ones," spouting out catchphrases so lame that even Archie comics wouldn't use them. Well, I was a little far from that, but still saw a fairly interesting story.Kay Panabaker plays Jamie Bartlett, a girl struggling to survive the hierarchy of high school social life. She has three best friends, including one boy who has an obvious crush on her. Her father, ex-Even Stevens dad and legendary announcer Tom Virtue, runs a pizza parlor with her mother(Connie Young), and tries to experiment in oddball toppings. Jamie deals with the repressive tyranny of high school life by writing in a personal journal on a tablet computer, using fictional characters loosely based on the people she knows there. When she gets it mixed up with a school article for school and sends it off to be published in a school newspaper, the whole world finds out about it and her life starts to fall apart. Sounds like "Harriet the Spy," you say? Nope. Because unlike Harriet M. Welch, Jamie's private diary has an alter-ego, a semi-super-heroine named "Is," played by Kay's older sister Danielle... or at least that's what she is at first. Besides that, at first most people like her writing including her enemies. The Great Isabella(Is) is sort of like Kim Possible with superpowers. She can do anything -- climb a rope in the gym, stroll through the halls of school zapping it's tormentors into permanent(or at least long-term) detention, get the boy of her dreams with ease, and appear only in front of Jamie. She also evolves from a heroine into a monster. Through Is, Jamie gains fortune and fame, gets her parents' pizza place some more business, gets to hang out with the school snobs who used to torment her, gets the boy of her dreams, and unfortunately nearly loses her friends, then everything else when she inadvertently reveals the inspiration for the villains in her book on a talk show. Who's going to get her out of this mess? Her parents? Her handler? Her protagonist? Her friends? The boy she loves? The boy who loves her? Like Lizzie McGuire's Ashlie Brillault, Jamie's nemesis(Allison Scagliotti) looks much better than Jamie. Even when the trailers were shown, there's no doubting Kay's resemblance to her sister. Beyond that, she wears more make up than her older sister did in "Stuck in the Suburbs." The ending seems somewhat predictable, and unfortunately not believable. I don't think that after a Carrie-style attack on a high school dance, that the kids would be ready to get back into the music. But I suppose if you don't have incidents like these at school functions, they tend to become lame.Some may see this as an excuse to get Danielle and Kay Panabaker to work together on the same project. That's okay by me. I saw Twitches(2005)(TV) as a lame excuse to keep the Mowry Sisters together one last time. Better DCOMs than this have existed, but this one is okay.