Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B (2014)

Now I am not a big fan of Aaliyah, and I absolutely feel She does not deserve the title "Princess of R&B" under any circumstances, that is just blowing up Her legacy more than it should be, there were by far much more relevant, talented, and original artists with better voice range, but this movie was just sad. From the beginning it is weak in so many areas, the lip singing of Young, teenage, and adult Aaliyah was just off, and it sounded like something You would here at a child's birthday party, not a professional soundtrack.A major problem with the film was the casting, Alexandra ship is a subpar actress at best along with the rest of the cast, and did not have a strong enough performance to be a main character, and carry the movie. The supporting cast had acting below the level of a middle school play, they rushed their lines, and did not become the Characters, none of them dug deep or tried to take on that person. Alexandra's sad attempts to imitate the way Aaliyah moved and talked just made Me feel sorry for the poor girl, who told Her She could act?! The singing and dancing as I mentioned before, is truly pathetic. When "Aaliyah" danced on stage with Her back up crew the routines were off, and She (Alexandra) looked liked a wild chicken, She had no sense of rhythm or coolness whatsoever.The script in this film was obviously done by a...I will just say it, moron. The way Aaliyah's teen years and relationship She had with Her family were all wrong. Aaliyah was said to have respected what her parents said, and was very close with Her brother Rashad. Instead in the movie She disrespects Her parents when they force Her to divorce R. Kelly, who She was supposedly illegally married to for a short time at the age of only 15. She spends most of the movie being upset with Her Father, and seems to be distance from Her brother, rarely interacting with Him. Along with all of these flaws, the chemistry was all wrong with the actors, it never clicked, or fit, they did not convince Me that they were a real family, instead I got the impression these stale People had been pushed together on screen suddenly and were merely reading meaningless lines off of a page.One of the major issues with the film is that it never shows the highlights of Aaliyah's career, such as winning an award for Her 2000 song "Try again" written by Timbaland. It does not show the filming of two of Her films, the makings of some of Her biggest hits, or how much it really meant to Her. The film just seemed to skim by it like it was no big deal, only bringing some of these things up for a few seconds.Another thing was the pacing and spacing between events, I would have liked to see more of Aaliyah's childhood, and what inspired Her to become a performer in the first place, along with the rise to fame, it did not just happen over night, there was a lot more to it. I fail to see how this film got such high ratings as far as T.V movie listings, the way I see it, this film was plain poor.The fact is, not effort was put into this film period. It may have been better had the Family given permission for the Film to be made in the first place, then the creators would have been able to use Aaliyah's songs.This movie does not deserve a rating, and my heart goes out to the Family, it is sad that their late Aaliyah's name is even tied to this atrocious abomination.As I said, I am not a fan of Aaliyah, but She deserves better than what was given. Do not waste Your time on this movie, it is not worth watching.

It's such a shame that the movie about the life of the amazing Aaliyah was this one!! Terrible acting! So cheesy! How was it allowed to go ahead?! I am SO embarrassed watching it, but thought I'd see it through to the very painful end!Alexandra Shipp is not a good actress, nice voice though, perhaps she can have a career in music? The film in memory of Aaliyah should have been bigger than this and with a bigger & better actress! I think that Alicia Keys would have been perfect!!Such a disappointment!

Wow, I'm completely shocked and appalled at the tragic events I witnessed on Lifetime. The "high ratings" were a result of people wanting to give it a chance... well we did and it was terrible. I bet if the results were calculated halfway through the move the ratings would have dropped severely. I myself could not carry on watching because I knew for a fact Aaliyah would haunt me from the grave. I apologize to Aaliyah, her family, Tim, and Missy... even R. Kelly for being disrespectful and watching. I would like to take this time and tell Lifetime and the "actors" to donate all proceeds to charity. PLEASE stop going against family wishes by destroying the legacy of wonderful people. 1.) You pronounced her name wrong 2.) She had an attitude toward Tim and Missy when they fist met 3.) Horrible props jewelry. 4.) Cast TERRIBLE 5.) Couldn't use original music The movie was improvised without doing any research at all on anyone. They could have pieced the movie together by interviews, or not do it at all which was requested.

I am very disappointed in this movie. I was extremely excited for this movie due to being a huge Aaliyah fan. However, the outcome was almost a slap in the face to her fans. It was underwhelming, very poor acting, horrible scripts, no plot, bad choice in casting, none of her hit songs..the list goes on! I am shocked being that Wendy Williams was involved and allowed such a tragic movie to be played out for the fans to witness. So dissatisfied and feel sorry for her family. It was incredibly selfish to go forward with this movie without the approval of her family and the people who mentored her. Shameful! I'm still shocked at the ending! Absolutely No words!