Hating Alison Ashley

Best tip of the week is to let any Hating Alison Ahsley disc you find in your vidshop languish in store until it hits the weekly bin, and then only rent it on a special dollar day deal.

What is it with Australian films? Why are they always so bad? Well here’s a clue – they thought they should cast a star name so they got hold of a singer, one Delta Goodrem to play the title role of Alison Ashley.

Now we all have different views on dear Delta – my own is that the Poo was way too kind to her, but it’s the cruelty of the producers we have to talk about here. Whether you like her kind of teeny lost love singing – at least she makes the first Avril Lavigne album look good – that’s her business, and she goes about it in a professional way.

 Here she looks too old, and too nervous and way too out of touch, and anyway, if you’re a fan, you go along, only to discover that she’s got second billing, below Saskia Burmeister, playing the school kid who hates the good looking, always popular Alison Ashley. Worse, Saskia can act and is about the only reason to see the film. And what is it with Delta’s hairstyle. Delta dawn, what’s that beehive you’ve got on … (yep, it’s a Helen Reddy number, known only to the super cognoscenti).

 Way back when, an Australian producer decided to cast a kid in the role of Dawn Fraser because she looked just like Dawn swimming in the pool. I kid you not. The kid couldn’t act, and the show sank like a stone, though the swimming sequences were good. 

Thirty years on, criminal activities continue in the name of the Australian film industry. The result – A$1.8 million at the Australian box office, and sadly that was a good performance for 2005.

It’s based on a popular novel so they try to con you that it’s like Looking for Alibrandi. No it’s not, it’s directed like a TV sitcom and produced with the imagination of a Jar Jar Binks. Worth a star because it’s mainly in focus, and another because Saskia works hard for the money.

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I love the movie written by Jacee on March 26, 2007 I don't agree with what is written above. I personally love this movie, it is one of my favourites of all time. I'm even running a petition for a sequel to be made for it, at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/haas6/petition.html /> Jacee

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 i personaly really like this film. I don't like the things you say. I don't think that thay are true at all. I would pay top doller to see that movie again.

Billy, April 16, 2006 6:31