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I had to pinch myself so I would not laugh...

posted 18 years ago by kyle-garabadian-1
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If you enjoy movies that are unintentionally bad or you are Aaron Carter's other fan, then "Popstar" may be for you. My niece made me watch this movie. I went into it with no expectations but I must say it had more unintentional laughs then I expected. You will enjoy the fifteen second montage of Aaron studying his calculus book assiduously. It includes shots of him turning the pages of his book, punching the buttons of his calculator, and most of all looking genuinely puzzled.(Carter's finest acting moment in the film) After all this he goes from barely being able to put 2+2 together to solving complex calculus equations. The director Richard Gabai loves a montage. Others include the homely girl learning to drive a Porsche, the homely girl going to get a makeover, and Carter taking his calculus final... again! It turns out he has something the movie's writers call testophobia. Guess what that is? The movie does take the oppurtunity to throw some former teen idols in the mix including David Cassidy, and the heroin-addled Leif Garrett. Garrett's cliched role as a school janitor with phillosophical tidbits that sound like something out of a fortune cookie is actually one of the movie's highlights. I didn't think it was possible but he is worse than Carter. This makes for great unintentional laughs for others forced to endure this steaming pile teen culture dung. So enjoy!

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[–] fredbel6 16 years ago

Too bad that scene is not online on youtube or something like that...being a mathematician myself makes that crap even more funny for me

[–] Froggermanner 16 years ago

omg those are the best lines in the whole movie!

"I'm a celebrity!" & "I'm a popstar!" hahahahahhaha classic.

Also I love when they are like, "my name is...is..." hahahahah who says that?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o0SlKFAcis

[–] HyperActiveSpaceMonkey 16 years ago

Everyone's descriptions of how bad this movie is makes me really want to see it.

[–] scrardft 15 years ago

Oh my God, this movie is not that bad!
I only saw it because my mom hates I change the channel every 3 minutes, she inmediately gets hooked on everything unless it involves crazy antics and silly stuff - my favorite shows contain that - anyway, she saw the movie with me. At the end, she kinda liked it, and I didn't hate it.
But come on, it wasn't terrible. Might get boring at times, and is not so funny. But is not as terrible as a 1.7/10! I seriouslty thought this movie would do a 4-5 rating when I finished seeing it. But instead it is extremely low in the Bottom 100.

[–] cas_jord 15 years ago

My friends and I rented sort of jokingly because we saw it sitting all by its lonesome on the shelf at the video store, saw Aaron Carter's face on the front and went "Well, we're having a movie marathon of odd choices - let's get something just for kicks!"

And I have to admit - we too could not stop laughing! Hahah, some of the quotes were just that funny that we were rolling on the floor laughing, even if it was a really serious scene - like when he pulled away from the popular girl (I've forgotton her name >.<") and went "No..." we just couldn't stop laughing :P

But you have to admit - the Fortune Cookie Janitor was quite entertaining, no? :P

[–] MsAnthropy 15 years ago

I'm only a half hour into it and was loving the unintentional humor...but now I'm starting to wonder if I had it wrong. I thought it was so bad it was good, but I'm thinking now maybe it's so bad it's terrible.

But I'm going to watch every minute of it before I make that final call. ;)

Oh, and to the poster who suggested this film deserves a 4/10 rather than a 1.8: Thanks for another laugh!

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