Avalon High (2011)

That song is the only reason why I suffered through this entire movie. I LOVE PLAY and they sang it perfectly (no surprise.) That song is the only good thing about this movie and it should be for sale on iTunes..

I must admit, I do love a good Disney movie and this was a decent enough Disney movie. However, I am also a big fan of Meg Cabot's book and I don't agree with Disney changing what would have been a perfectly good script. In the book, everything lines up with the Arthurian legend; Will is King Arthur, Marco is Mordred etc. In the film, however, Allie is King Arthur (which is meant to be a "surprise plot twist" but actually doesn't make any sense), Marco is only pretending to be bad (because after all folks it is a kids movie) and Will character isn't part of the legend at all. It would appear that Disney were trying to give the movie a feminist slant, going for the 'girls can do everything boys can do" attitude (evident when the teacher, Mr Moore who is Mordred in the movie, says "King Arthur can't be a girl"). However, by doing this the story, especially the love triangle between Lance (Lancelot), Jennifer (Guinevere) and Will makes absolutely NO SENSE. I don't think that Disney realised that the original plot in the book does actually give great credence to Ellie, not Allie. Ellie is the Lady of the Lake, the women that gives King Arthur Excalibur and who protects him. Arthur would be nothing without the Lady of the Lake and so the plot as is was pretty feminist already. In my opinion, Disney's changes were silly, poorly thought out and entirely unnecessary. In saying that I did enjoy the first hour of the film and found the character of Miles (Merlin) to be a great addition. Overall, I think the film is good but with such significant changes made to the plot and the ending, I do not think Disney should of marketed this as a adaptation of the book. It would have been better as a stand alone TV movie.

The movie in itself wasn't bad, but to give it the same name and say it's based on the book was a bold faced lie. Not only was the plot WAY messed up, but the names weren't even right!!! I looked at the cast and it says Lance Benwick, the book clearly says multiple times his name is Lance Reynolds, not to mention the protagonist, Elaine Harrison, not Allie Pennington. She's supposed to be the Lady of the Lake, not King Arthur. Why would Will's life parallel to Arthur's so much, then all of a sudden, haha,just kidding, it's Allie, who's supposed to be Ellie. If you like the book, you can like this movie if you turn it off about 20 minutes before the end of the movie.

this was one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life. I understand it's supposed to be cheap and cheesy because it's a Disney channel movie, however this just exudes awfulness. this movie contains some of the worst actors ever and the plot line is ridiculously easy to predict. the characters do not even match their role characters. the movie just rambles on and on with nonsense as fillers for the cheap short storyline. it is as if the director just made up this movie over night and decided "hey let's make a movie." the book is way better and exciting than the movie, and I usually prefer movies over books. The constant foreshadowing does not help the movie at all, it just allows the audience to anticipate the next main event. by far one of the worst Disney channel productions ever. I would not recommend this to any children or adult of any age. Please do not waste your life in watching this movie, go outside and watch the grass grow for more excitement.