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Original Title :
LOL
Genre :
Movie / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Year :
2012
Directror :
Lisa Azuelos
Cast :
Miley Cyrus,Douglas Booth,Ashley Greene
Writer :
Lisa Azuelos,Kamir Aïnouz
Budget :
$11,000,000
Type :
Movie
Time :
1h 37min
Rating :
4.4/10

As a new year at school begins, Lola's heart is broken by her boyfriend, though soon she's surprised by her best friend, promising musician Kyle, who reveals his feelings for her.

LOL (2012) Online

In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, "accidentally" reads her teenage daughter's racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown. Through hilarious and heartfelt moments between mother and daughter, LOL is a fresh coming-of-age story for modern times.
Cast overview, first billed only:
Jean-Luc Bilodeau Jean-Luc Bilodeau - Jeremy
Douglas Booth Douglas Booth - Kyle
Vivian Le Borgne Vivian Le Borgne - Lily's Mother
Bridget Brown Bridget Brown - Lily
Jim Carrane Jim Carrane - Biology Teacher (as Jimmy Carrane)
Woody Carter Woody Carter - Male Student
Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus - Lola
Felix Dayan Felix Dayan - French Father
Sam Derence Sam Derence - Ashley's Father
Nora Dunn Nora Dunn - Emily's Mother
Lina Esco Lina Esco - Janice
Trevor Fahnstrom Trevor Fahnstrom - Ethan
George Finn George Finn - Chad
Rebecca Finnegan Rebecca Finnegan - Therapist
Alix Freihage Alix Freihage - Young Wife

The crew kept a running tally of the number of iPhones that were broken because whenever director Lisa Azuelos would get frustrated, she would throw one on the ground.

In the opening voice-over Lola says that her name is Lola but everyone calls her "LOL" for short. But she is only called "LOL" once in the entire movie; every other time someone calls her by name they say "Lola".

"The Big Bang" by Rock Mafia appears twice during the movie. Miley Cyrus starred in the song's music video.

Whilst filming LOL, Douglas Booth developed an obsession with carrots as he would chew them when ever he was nervous.

Lisa Azuelos both wrote and directed the first incarnation, LOL [pжунимагу] (2008), the French film starring Sophie Marceau, after realizing that movies based on teen life in her home country of France were almost entirely missing. She would often see her daughter go to the theatre to watch either an American teen movie or a horror film.

Director Lisa Azuelos only wanted to do the American remake if Demi Moore would star in it.

Although Ashley Greene played a teenager in this film, she was 25 at the time of filming.

Douglas Booth learned how to play guitar for his role in the film.

Ashley Greene's first name is same as in the movie.

It wasn't originally in the script for Janice to actually eat the snail in Paris, but actress Lina Esco really wanted to try it. Ashley Greene's reaction was real.

Lola's nan gets drunk on just one whisky and coke!


User reviews

Nto

Nto

I'm going to summarize here:

This "film" bears about as much connection with modern society as KFC represents the life of Chickens. Not only is it the most cheese filled pap ever, it's a walking cliché and the people in it, even say the word "LOL" rather than actually laughing, in one scene; one person even rolls around the floor laughing when she is told a joke by her friend, and it wasn't even funny.

The entire dialogue in this film looks as if it has actually been written on a Nokia 3310 by a 10 year old boy, who has ADHD, no offence to people who actually HAVE ADHD, but seriously, it's like they've given a child three things:

1. MDMA.

2. 90 Blank Sheets of Paper and a typewriter.

3. 2 Days to complete it.

The acting is below par and even in one scene, it is blatantly obvious that the actress has forgotten her lines, so she seems to make her line up on the spot. How on earth did Demi Moore get roped into this? Demi Moore has made some god awful movies in her time, but this will be a black hole on her CV for many years to come and I imagine she is only kicking herself to the loony bin for partaking in this absolute rubbish.

Then I have to mention the obvious fake posts on here which are condoning and praising this teeny bopper movie, which is obviously made to capitalise on fans of the girl out of this, kids who are grounded and have to use their phones as a social outlet, LOL, and teen kids who have nothing better to do with their money than go and see how the media thinks they should live their lives.

Anyone paying to watch this god awful trash should take themselves and get counselling, go and see a doctor, because whilst there are thousands and thousands of good script writers trying to earn a living, thousands of actors trying to break through; and thousands of budding directors just aching for a chance to even get 1% of this budget for their work; production companies are still lying and pulling the wool over our eyes with pap like this.

If you are fan of the girl in this film, think about it, and think about it hard!!!

If you actually like this girl, then you will NOT go and put money into the pockets of the greed ridden pigs who are actually trying to exploit YOU as well as your idol. So I'm not going to give you grief for liking this girl; like most will, but seriously think about it before you part with your money. If this film does even remotely well, the fat corporate pigs will only release more pap with her in, to try and prize YOUR hard earned money from your hands, and in turn, the big wheel of fortune will grind away on YOU and ONLY YOU!

It says something when a production company pull out of post production marketing like they did on this kids, they want to BURY it without trace, because they know how terrible this film truly is!

Fair enough, watch it on cable (it will be on there soon enough), download it from some kind of torrent site, but whatever you do, do NOT go and spend a penny of your money on this, you will regret it for years to come.

Long live the free thinkers.
Ceck

Ceck

If there's one way to describe this movie, it would be utterly atrocious, execrable trash. In no way are there any redeeming qualities in this "film" as it is filled with a moronic plot, hideous dialog(if you can call it that)banal acting and overall crap. The whole thing is a ruse; it looks like a low-budget made-for-TV film that ironically enough SHOULD HAVE BEEN A MADE-FOR-TV FILM IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! I'm sorry, but after Hanna Montana and the atrocious film that followed it, Miley Cyrus's career as an actress is pretty much in the toilet. Only a wickedly hardcore Miley Cyrus fan would watch this because any self-respecting movie-lover would stay clear away from this hell-hole of a movie.

1 out of 5 stars. That's how bad this piece of sh*t is.
Sha

Sha

A monotonous, dreadful film that follows the gimmicks of social networking and text messaging. I wouldn't classify this as a movie; it falls along the lines of high school trauma and the depressing pokes of a Facebook page. The acting was sub-par and the love story was the equivalent of rusty nails while it focuses on the redundant internet slang we constantly see today. The whole feeling of the film was basically like looking at a Facebook page. Very dull and asinine with the sense of delusional romance forever reminding us how little hope remains for todays youth. If this is what you call quality entertainment then I fear for the sanctity of our Media. Major waste of filming resources and should be shot into the sun for the sake of humanity.
Coron

Coron

Okay first things first, you should know that this movie is a remake of a crappy French movie of the same name. If that doesn't deter you from watching, then maybe knowing that Miley Cyrus is starring as the lead role does.

I never had high hopes for this movie especially since Lionsgate completely shunned the marketing team and had no effort in making sure that this movie gets some much needed publicity. But aside from that, this movie isn't really targeted for people like me. It seems to focus on its teen demographic, hell the title says it all...LOL.

Now I'm not hating on Miley Cyrus or anything but God that girl really brought down the movie. I thought that she could maybe prove that she can act and switch away from that Hannah Montana crap, but no, she cannot. And having Demi Moore didn't help either. It's like the cast had every intention to make a god-awful movie that only teenage girls would barely like.

Overall, the movie was your average run of the mill, teenage love affair crap. If you're a guy then stay the hell away from this movie, but if you're a girl then...no, you should also stay away from this movie.
HappyLove

HappyLove

I regret going to see this movie. Says it all. I was dragged along to it by an overly excited friend who wanted to see it. I couldn't of despised this movie more if I tried. The only difficulty about this now is trying to reach the minimum requirements for the length of this review.

Right, so I expect people seem like they know what to expect with this movie. Otherwise, why go see it. Miley plays nothing more than how she does on her TV series. A ditsy girl with poor use of English. Which isn't surprising.

If I had to recommend this to someone, it would be those under 11 years of age.

One good thing about the experience of seeing this.. "movie" was that I felt relief when it was over.

But hey, if you want to waste some cash with minimal physical and, let's face it.. mental effort, then see this wasted reel of film. 1/10.
Awene

Awene

In the movie, LOL, the character, Lola, has a poster for the smash-hit, Juno, hanging in her bedroom. I know, I know. Analyzing a detail as small as this might sound nitpicky but just hear me out.

Juno was a movie about a teenager who addressed the people she loved and the people she had problems with, in person. Juno revealed an ultrasound picture of her baby to its future adoptive parents, in person. She laid out an entire living room set on Paulie Bleeker's front lawn, to tell him she was pregnant, in person. The reason its main character maintained quick-witted comebacks and came up with ironic allegories, at the drop of a hat, was because of her characteristic of going out and exploring new things. That movie was so refreshing because it took place in a world in which teenagers didn't constantly have the glow of a cell phone screen, reflecting off of their faces. In fact, there was only one part in the film involving a phone conversation between two people...and both sides had their phones plugged into a jack!

So why does LOL's mentioning of such a great movie bother me? Because its own message contradicts Diablo Cody's vision and her faith in teenagers. Cody believed in a world in which adolescents might actually look up from their gadgets, turn to each other and like, talk. Hell, there actually is a scene from Wall-E, in which two morbidly obese men favor looking at monitors with video feed each other, when they're in floating chairs, side by side. Juno spits in the face of such technological dependence.

LOL, on the other hand, condones the non-stop usage of iPods, Twitter and other sites of the moment. Its lead characters are so reliant of online social networks, where every sentence is simplified and shortened, that once they finally log off, they use phrases like "it's good to love someone so much it hurts." A line like that wouldn't even make it into Juno's deleted scenes section on the DVD. LOL celebrates the idea of kids, hunching their heads over a five by three inch screen all day long, as the rest of the world passes them by. Don't get me wrong - I'm well aware that there actually are teenagers in the world who are this overly consumed. With it being near impossible to find a person between the ages of 18 and 29 NOT on a phone within a three hour period of time, writer and director, Lisa Azuelos, isn't exactly making up fiction here. But to try to portray these hypnotized kids as deep thinking and complex is wrong. How could they have the drive to reflect on who they are when they don't even put effort into typing out full words into text messages? Like I said, it's fine for characters like these to exist because there are real world people like this. But don't try dragging another film down to your level when it boasts unexplained emotions, open for interpretation while your own best moment of self-reflection consists of the line "Every year, it's weird going back to school but here we are, just going with the flow". Oo-hoo-hoo, look out, Hemingway.
huckman

huckman

How and where do I begin to tell you people the horror that is this poorly acted , terribly scripted mess of a 'film'. I never thought I would ever watch a film that would at condone the poor behaviour of miley Cyrus' Character Lola but actually promotes and glorify it. The drug use that Lola partakes in is classified as 'cool' and 'hip' and the consequences of taking drugs are only briefly spoken of , Lola also is a victim of terrible parenting , Demi Moore is a overly touchy-feely mother who loves to indulge in the very acts she so aggressively and rightly condones HYPOCRISY AT IT'S FINEST PEOPLE , Demi Moore and her friends actually smoke pot in the adjoining room from her daughter and Jeremy {friends son} where they to are indulging in this terribly destructive behaviour pattern. Lola is often implied to be just like her mother POOR GIRL her mother is a woman who actually makes no sense as a human... she got a ride home with a COMPLETE STRANGER for peat's sake. Most of the males in this film {In fact all of them} display a chauvinistic view about women which none of them dare to challenge.Also nobody seems to care as to Lolas obvious obsession with technology and her mother fails to tell the father about Lolas self destructiveness and lies to him. MATURITY . Demi Moore portrays {badly} the worst parent ever who finds condoms in the house which her daughter owns along with several used joints and the only punishment is missing a party BUT WAIT ... LOLA GETS TO THE PARTY, Lola lies to her boyfriend and has an overly advanced sex life for her age To conclude this is a very destructive film which promotes behaviour that is self-destructive and harmful without consequence , this would be the last film on earth that i would permit my child to watch and it is in general crappy AVOID AT ALL COSTS
SadLendy

SadLendy

LOL (2012)

* (out of 4)

Lisa Azuelos remakes her own French movie. This one here has Miley Cyrus playing a teen who seems obsessed with sex, drugs and music, which is something her single mom (Demi Moore) doesn't know about. I'm guessing that's the so-called plot to this film but the truth is that plot and this movie really don't go together. I can't comment on the original film since I haven't seen it yet but this thing here pretty bad but thankfully it's so bad that most people should be able to get a couple good laughs out of it. I think what really kills the movie is the fact that every character from the teens to their parents are just downright idiots. I mean, the Moore character is without question one of the dumbest mothers I've ever seen from any movie. Just watch the way the character pretty much can't put her foot down on anything and the scene where Cyrus talks her out of taking her phone away is just embarrassing. Even worse is a sequence later on when mommy and daughter have it out after mom reads her diary and notices all the things she's been up to. Not only the entire sequence unintentionally funny, the performances by the two actresses is just embarrassing. Cyrus really comes off bad here because she can't handle what limited range the character has. The scenes with her crying are just poorly done and I can't say I believed anything she did here. Moore isn't quite as bad but she's burdened by the horrid character. Even Gina Gershon, Ashley Greene and Thomas Jane can't do anything. Everything from the dialogue to the actual story is just really bad and there's really nothing good to mention here outside the use of a certain Rolling Stones song. What keeps LOL watchable is how bad it manages to be and I'm going to guess that the only people this thing will appeal to are those who enjoy movies that are so bad they're watchable.
Duzshura

Duzshura

this is THE WORST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN there was no acting !!.This is not a movie this is a documentary of how not to make a movie.movie. Miley Cyrus acting sucked worse than watching paint dry on a iceberg.It seems like the director gave up within ten seconds as the trailers for other movies had better action than this whore of a film. Everything about this movie makes me throw up blood it is horrible why call a film LOL when there is no humour I really don't understand it.

My daughter watched the first minute of this movie and is now in intensive care. Every day she bangs her head so hard on he wall she creates deformities in her ovaries. She cries so much that she has to drink 56 gallons of vodka every hour. She has a liver transplant every day. Miley Cyrus is my sons worst nightmare and every night he wakes up screaming so loud that he bursts his own ear drums. Overall it was rubbish never watch if you like bad movies this is your worst nightmare! Myley Cyrus deserves a BAFTA.
Querlaca

Querlaca

I should have taken the warnings from the reviews here. This film is bad. The acting, particularly by Cyrus, is bad. She is worst in this movie than any of her previous ones. That's hard to believe isn't it, but it is.

There were a few actors that did OK but they were not the main ones. I wonder if anyone was able to sit through this beside critics.

You have to wonder how these movies make it to the screen the way it is. I mean someone along the way must have known that it was bad and told someone else. Even if not, surely early previews by the crew should have brought up questions and concerns. Maybe they were short on finance?

In any case, STAY AWAY from this movie lol
Alien

Alien

first of all there is nothing I could say to spoil this film, whoever wrote it already achieved that

I couldn't get through the film - I have a soft spot for Mileys films, I liked Hannah Montana the movie and the last song and I like her voice. so you know my loathing for this film isn't based on a loathing of Miley.

If this film was pointing out how much of todays teenagers are self obsessed vile creatures then job done - however I am guessing the audience is supposed to sympathise with the characters.

the first interaction with the mother in this film is Miley stripping off right in front of her to have a shower and thus an argument ensuing about the Brazilian she had done - seriously?! who in the hell acts like this?! what Teenager on this planet strips off in front of a parent?!

the scene editing is relentless, there is no time for the film to breath. in fact as someone who suffers migraines chronically, someone who has had brain scans on many occasions for cluster headaches I can tell you this with some degree of certainty that if I was charged with putting a migraine into film form - this film is pretty much what you'd get.

Also just for your information teenagers - "LOL" is an abbreviation we were using in the 90s when we invented the internet as it is now, go make up your own stuff!
tref

tref

Just took the time to watch this movie, as it was one of PirateBay's most downloaded.

I honestly can not understand how anyone manages to do enough drugs to imagine this would be a good movie when writing the script. Luckily enough for me I was smart enough to not spend any money to watch the movie. I do however feel that I've not only been robbed for my time, but also for all of the knowledge I've ever gathered over the years. I am certain that at one point I could feel my brain melting away.

I still do not understand the plot of the movie as there was no red string connecting the movie, and it would jump from one story to another without ever finishing what it started. I am left feeling empty, as I don't know for instance what happened to Kyle and his dad after the Battle of the Bands.

If I would have to recommend this movie to anyone, it would be for brain dead tweens who believe that Europe is a country located in the United States, and that Justin Bieber is the greatest thing to happen to this world since the invention of make-up and hair straighteners.

Seriously, don't waste your time watching the movie, as you will most likely suffer severe brain damage afterward, and have troubles remembering anything useful that you've ever learned.

1/10
Kagda

Kagda

Lola (Miley Cyrus) breaks up with boyfriend Chad (George Finn). She begins to have feelings for her friend Kyle (Douglas Booth). The problem is that her enemy Post-it Ashley (Ashley Greene) keeps trying to steal Kyle. Also Chad and Kyle are best friends which makes it even worst as Chad turns into a jealous douche. Her friend Emily (Ashley Hinshaw) tries to flirt with the hot teacher. She's frustrated that her mother Anne (Demi Moore) is secretly dating her dad Allen (Thomas Jane). Anne is desperate to reconnect with Lola. Anne breaks up with Allen and starts dating James the cop (Jay Hernandez). Lola mistakenly thinks that Kyle had sex with Ashley in the bathroom and tries to get back at him by pretending to date her friend Jeremy (Jean-Luc Bilodeau).

This is overloaded with really hot twentysomethings passing themselves off as teenagers. The guys with model good looks could possibly pass. Miley Cyrus and Jean-Luc Bilodeau are probably the only ones that should still be in a high school drama. The rest of them seems to be waiting for a catalog shoot. I try very hard to overlook the double mess of Miley and Demi Moore's real lives. It's a losing proposition. They can't really get away from their persona. This is a movie in need of gritty reality if it could ever work at all. Neither of them can give the movie that reality. The worst is that everybody is various degrees of annoying. As for the story itself, it's a lot of teen melodrama. That's the reason it needs its realism. With so much drama, the movie can only work if it isn't so Hollywood. Instead, the jokes are bad and this is nothing but a bad teen soap opera. I don't know if the French movie was any better. I doubt it could have been much worst.
Fenritaur

Fenritaur

I won't mince words. This is the worst movie about teenagers I've ever seen. Now, objectively, there have been other "worse" teen sex movies, like the innumerable American Pie sequels, but this one is offensive because of the fact that it so obviously has pretensions to be a generation defining examination of the sexual politics of high schoolers. But contrasting this film to even the Tina Fey penned "Mean Girls", almost a decade this film's junior, LOL absolutely pales in comparison. Now, I'm willing to give Lisa Azuelos some credit. I have not seen her original 2008 French film, and maybe it's good. Maybe it is the sharp edged satire that this film failed to be. Maybe something was lost in the translation to English. Maybe, lines such as "Skank-ass ho" don't engender the kind of bad laughs in French as they do in English. But, ultimately, the faults in this movie have to come down to her screenplay. Character motivations change every minute, plot lines are introduced, dropped, only to be either picked up again at a point when it's convenient for the film or just abandoned outright. The casting was atrocious. Miley Cyrus cannot act. Not that any other actress would have much luck trying to breathe life into this rotting , personality-void corpse of a character, whose only motivation in life seems to be deciding between two nearly identical wispy haired low-rent Cilian Murphy lookalike she's gonna give her V-card to. But give the artist formerly known as Hannah Montana some credit, at least she looks like a teenager! The absolutely goose-bump inducing storyline involving the blonde wanting to bump hormonal uglies with her math teacher fails to capture the creepiness and desperation of the situation if only for the fact that the two actors look about six months apart in age! Not that any of that matters, as this plot thread, like so many others, comes to a complete halt with no resolution, no consequence, and no lessons learned. And that's the biggest problem with this movie, it gives us absolutely no reason to care at all about the people in it. Why should I care about Lola's love life? What about this cop am I supposed to find charming apart from his motorcycle and leather jacket? Why should I like Kyle as opposed to the other guy?(I can't remember his name, and no, I won't look it up because I've already spent an hour and a half of my life on this movie, and that's about two hours too long.) Demi Moore is the only one in this movie that comes across as credible. She's believable as a single mom trying to have a family and a career(What career, you ask? Good question, we're never told.). This movie is a complete mess of half-baked ideas trying to say something profound about the Twitter generation. Take my advice: watch Mean Girls or Fast Times at Ridgemont High, two films that despite their age have as much to say about teenagers in their time as they do now. And I guarantee you won't have to hear the line "skank-ass ho" in either of them.
Dandr

Dandr

A lot of these reviews do sound a bit like old people who don't understand youth culture. There is a lot of moaning about 'these kids with cell phones constantly in their face'. The problem is that this film fails to challenge that image at all. I understand that the way teenagers communicate has changed. They use internet slang in person, they are on social media a lot and always using a smart-phone. It makes sense for films to reflect that.

The problem is that this film is total tripe, regardless.

The acting is horrendous on all sides, particularly Cyrus who clearly already passed the limits of her acting talent in Hannah Montana and needs to just jack it in. How Demi Moore got involved in this I do not know. Sure, she's done some bad movies in the past but I thought she was older and wiser now. Apparently not.

I not only failed to empathise with any of these people, I actively started to dislike all of them for being so woefully one dimensional. If you have a teenage daughter, or even just know a teenage girl, ask her about her life at school or the boys she likes. I guarantee it will be more interesting and engaging than the plot of this film.

I actually consider this film does more harm than good to the very people it portrays. It could have been an insight into the, sometimes impenetrable, world of teenage life. It could have shown parents or other adults how things have changed since their youth and why social media is so important to teenagers these days. Instead it just reinforces the image that they are shallow, whiny, and entitled 'kids' with no perspective on the real world.

I would say this is just for hardcore Miley Cyrus fans but actually it's more likely to upset you if you liked her before. It's not for anyone, simple as that.
Jia

Jia

Insipid, vacuous, prejudiced piece of 'movie' material. The teenagers apparently all have trust issues and act like the cover page of People Magazine, who did who with what mostly and live only through their communication systems. Miley's character acts bipolar (although who are we to judge upon the severity of mental issues) during most of the film, if not for all of it. The obvious morality stints of teen sex and drugs is brought in a way where only the superfluous banality of it remains. That criticism is coming from a moderate consumer of said herbs and an inveterate cheater movie addict who mostly watches John Waters and Kevin Smith films...

It's a sad day for teen movies. Where are the complex intertwining motives "à la" John Hugues, or the ironic yet quite serious movie making of Amy Heckerling? The parents are a) too lenient or b) harsh Nazi like figures of pseudo authority. By pushing his kid, one of the fathers actually commits a felony.

2/10... Because although it is pure Hollywood (I appeal to the masses of tweens that want to see Justin Bieber replicas have sex in a school bathroom types), some effort of formal cinematography can be sometimes perceived, the images of the cities and urban milieu are somewhat okay. Yay DoP, sucks to be the rest of the crew.
Xal

Xal

First off, who are these writers who think that high school students act like this nowadays? Where were all the bullies in this movie? There is no way in hell that these kids would be hanging out with that many hot girls. The group of friends that is portrayed in this awful film would never be considered the cool kids at this school. Not once in this movie are these kids actually bullied. Why do these movies portray the cool kids in high school to be a bunch of whiny artsy kids who complain all the time and constantly look like they are about to cry? Not one person I have ever met has ever acted like these kids in high school. Not only did I hate every character in this movie, but I hated every word that came out of every stupid mouth. The dialogue seemed to have been written by a thirteen year-old girl who is trying to sound sexually mature. I felt like this (presumed) thirteen-year-old girl writer just wrote one draft to this script and that was that, the first draft was the final draft. I was so confused as why people got together or why they broke up or why they got back together. Things would happen with zero explanation to it. Why did Lola and Kyle make-up with no words spoken while on the plane to Paris. They broke up for no reason then got back together for no reason. Then out of nowhere Lola appears to become a lesbian with that blonde haired girl but they never address that relationship. Also, at the beginning of the movie Lola says that Kyle was her best friend all her life but at the end of the stupid movie she introduces him to her mom. HOW HAVE THEY NEVER MET IF HE HAS BEEN LOLA'S BEST FRIEND ALL HER LIFE. This movie is the worst movie ever made.
Forcestalker

Forcestalker

This is by far the worst piece of sh*t I've ever seen. The acting is terrible, the direction (if you could even call it that) is awful, and the story is down right unrealistic, pretentious, and ridiculous. Every minute that I sat through this garbage I was pondering whether or not to scratch my eyes out of my head or jump off of the tallest building I could find, neither of which would have taken this movie to the burners. Miley Cyrus is by far the WORST actress of all time, narrowly beating the entire cast of The Room for that title. Demi Moore is completely idiotic in this film, trying her best to portray a mother but only falters as the task despite being a mother herself to children in the same age bracket. The supporting cast, made up of Thomas Jane, Jay Hernandez, Fisher Stevens and Gina Gershon try to elevate this direct to DVD film with an unsuccessful result. The film's story is horrendous, it tries to convey high school filled with overbearing clichés that have been done better and more tastefully in other previous films. Overall, STAY AWAY FROM THIS FILM!!!! It should come with a warning on the DVD case reading: MAY CAUSE SUICIDAL THOUGHTS. Yes, it is THAT bad. You've been warned.
Kiaile

Kiaile

This movie was awful. There were some funny parts. Lucky for Miley - her's was more natural than demi's performance. The relationship between these 2 seemed forced. I never forgot for the entire movie that they were Miley and Demi trying to look hot. What mother with long hair never puts her hair up to take care of children, make food etc? I couldn't really get into the movie or identify with any of the characters except perhaps some of Miley's girlfriends in the movie, they did a good job acting. Sounds like the original version was a hit. This version was vacuous and boring. I actually didn't care by the end of the movie if anyone ended up together. I couldn't wait until it was over. I couldn't get netflix to fast forward so I just sat through until the end. These stars need to stop believing their own press releases. If you're done acting then just do talk shows; Miley could fall back on her music career. Demi was great in the Joneses movie; so perhaps they have.
Hbr

Hbr

I went into the movie with an opened mind. I usually don't like Miley Cyrus as an actress and usually won't waste my time watching films or shows she's been in, but I do enjoy movies with Douglas Booth and Ashley Greene. So, I began watching the movie and it seemed like it showed promise as being an original (or slightly original) movie (even though it's an American adaption of a French film). Then it got really cliché really fast. I was able to predict exactly what was going to happen before it happened and it was just so ridiculous. I literally fast forwarded at times and wasn't lost in the slightest. It had soooo much promise. Had they tweaked it slightly it would've been such a better film. Maybe if they had dipped into Kyle's home life a little more or spent less time on Lola's friend. It felt like none of the stories they were bringing in really made sense or mattered. It was just splotches of a teenagers daily life without the depth of meaning to it. It portrayed a true relationship between friends, enemies, love interests, and parents; even if Lola and Kyle's friendliness was a little stressed and the interest in each other too obvious in the beginning. Honestly I was more interested in Kyle's home life then I was in Lola's. And the movie was in Lola's POV. (for most of the movie) Maybe if they'd added some confrontation with Kyle and Chad about his and Lola's relationship or gave SOMETHING that wasn't so dry. You really only get the face value and some slight shallow depth to each of the teenagers when the movie could have been so much more. The people who worked on the film state the movie didn't do well at the box office because of the lack of publicity it got, but that wasn't it at all. It was because they had an amazing cast with a lacking story line that didn't make the audience care. What person wants to waste money on a movie they can see in a million other B movies that go straight to DVD?
Beahelm

Beahelm

First off Miley Cyrus' acting is always upsettingly bland. It seems like she just enjoys pretending to be a 'bad girl'. The plot line its self didn't even go anywhere. Nothing was resolved or overcome. It seems like they just took a chapter out of this girls diary and said "lets make this a movie". The only thing close to a climax is when the mother reads the girls diary and that is quickly overcome. I think the goal of the movie was to draw parallels between the mother and daughter, which they do with a bunch of unnecessary plot lines. It jumps around from one thing to the next. Plus they put too much attention on the irrelevant details that it confuses you to the actual plot line (Which is nonexistent). They show you a little of her boyfriends homelike (where nothing is changed or achieved) and the mothers love life (where she just jumps around). I feel like a plot should go somewhere, especially side plots. Movies should feel like you're taking a journey from start to finish and this feels like it started in the middle and ended shortly after.
SING

SING

Caution! This review contains spoilers in the 'About the film itself' section, but nowhere else! First things first: I know I'm not the person who this film is aimed to. Here comes the but though.

--About Miley Cyrus: She seems to struggle to find her way after the Hannah Montana series and albums, and maybe to show her dad (Billy Ray Cyrus) that she is fine on her own. Not a waste of talent, because she hasn't got any in this sort of medium.

Well, according to the re-created LOL she is not that fine. I completely understand that she doesn't want to be a Disney minion for ever, but this fake rebel chick and the whole world is against she is just not cool. Seriously why is she doing this? She got too much before she could understand the responsibility which comes with being celebrity.

--About everyone else: I don't know how could Cyrus force Demi Moore to take the role in this film but hey, she managed to, and it works for some reason. Demi Moore just does what she is great at. Scores 4 out of 5 for me.

--Young female actresses: Average performance and nothing else. Except for Lina Esco, who portrayed the American version of Stéphanie (Lou Lesage). Even though in the 2012 version the girls did not have such a big role as in the original, she made a good impersonation. (3 out of 5) Male actors: The class mates were just like the original ones, maybe a bit less hip, to "make them able to be sold".

--About the film itself (containing info about locations): The story has been rewritten to fit into the line of the below average American re-created films. Instead of Paris they gave Chicago, instead of England they gave Paris.

--Verdict: Below average acting, absolutely unnecessary remake, the only market share it can hold to is the American. For some reason they love to ruin the European films. The only exception in the near past was so far the the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. IMDb score for the original: 7.8, US version 7.9. As for the LOL, figures are not so great. The original has a score of 6.1, the US version 3.5 and it won't be any better.

--For me: 2 out of 10, and I was really kind because I liked Demi Moore and Lina Esco.
Winotterin

Winotterin

Well it's not going to be a long review, this film simply doesn't even worth my time writing one. The only reason I bother is to warn whoever didn't see this movie yet not to make my mistake. Where to even start.. I don't understand why Miley keeps getting lead roles, she just doesn't know how to act, like a little girl who tries to act in front of her mirror and it really doesn't work well.. In addition to that, the story itself is so boring! I'm from those who always get emotional when I watch films (even really bad ones) but here it was worse than bad, I didn't feel anything and the only reason I laughed a few times was because of the amount of ridiculously stupid scenes that were in this film. I won't even go on, my point is clear - Do yourself a favor - Don't watch this. I needed another good movie after this just to get over it. My brain couldn't tolerate such a disaster.
Walianirv

Walianirv

Despite knowing the cast before seeing LOL, I decided to keep an open mind. I always feel as though I can examine something in further detail if I put aside all previous knowledge of the subject. This attitude quickly changed.

Another perfect demonstration of Miley Cyrus' rise to fame surfing on her father's back. As per usual, zero effort put in to her performance. This becomes increasingly worsened via the slaughter of what was once an excellent script. Humour (if it can even be referred to as such) pushed to its very limits; and scenes that had viewers covering their faces as though ashamed to be seen as they fled the cinema before even 20 minutes in.

What amuses me the most however, is that this actually seems to be getting positive feedback from a very small, direct audience. Simple movies for simple minds I suppose.
lifestyle

lifestyle

With me being 13 this movie was, obviously, aimed for an audience around my age. And let's just say this movie was appalling. Hell, that's an understatement. It was absolutely horrific.

I was quite excited to see this. I didn't expect it to be Oscar material or anything. Oh God no. I just expected a light, entertaining film. I personally liked the original from which this was based and I hoped this was Miley's big shot to break out from her Hannah Montana, childish demographic. But f*ck no. The main character, Lola, almost made Hannah look inspiring! I'd rather watch a Hannah Montana marathon than lay my eyes on the opening credits of this film ever again.

I personally dislike Miley's acting 'career'. (I don't fancy Ashley Greene's either) But I mean, come on! Not even Demi Moore can cover up for her idiocy! Miley's personal music career and her most recent album surprised me and gave me higher hopes.

But nope. Her acting still sucks. She can barely speak English.

So, folks, just remember this-- A pretty face can not aid a weak persona.