Britney Spears has largely escaped my notice, except that apparently she's the U.S. flag waver for maintenance of virginity until marriage.
As such, she would represent a fairly small percentage of Australian brides and bride grooms I would imagine.
I would like to report that in Crossroads Britney apparently does `do it'. That information might be vital for anyone considering attending the movie who would be offended by such a situation.
And I would also like to announce that Britney Spears is cute and photogenic which the rest of the world no doubt have already noticed. And that she wins a karaoke contest! Surprise, surprise.
Crossroads is a road movie. Three high school girls take off for a long drive to California with an unknown hunk who is rumoured to be a murderer (but who also has a car). That's about it.
Films like these win or fail according to how interesting you find the characters. Lucy (Spears) is searching for her estranged Mum in Arizona.
Kit (Zoe Saldana) is chasing after her boyfriend in L.A.. Mimi (Taryn Manning (Crazy/Beautiful) is pregnant and heading to a band audition in L.A.!
The boy Ben (Anson Mount) is there mainly to look handsome for the girls and coincidentally to compose music for Lucy's poetry. It all sounds fairly unpromising I know but Lucy and Mimi make a fairly weak script sing quite a bit at times.
Things get pretty dramatic too in an offhand sort of way, to the extent that I thought for a moment that Mimi had gained her name from Puccini's La Boheme.
That's no criticism either. Taryn Manning as Mimi adds quite a bit of bounce to film that could have been just a teenage homage to Britney. Crossroads has presented Britney Spears as an actress with a good deal of charm and a script that takes a surprisingly serious bent.
3 Flys with Bared Navels Out Of Five.
As such, she would represent a fairly small percentage of Australian brides and bride grooms I would imagine.
I would like to report that in Crossroads Britney apparently does `do it'. That information might be vital for anyone considering attending the movie who would be offended by such a situation.
And I would also like to announce that Britney Spears is cute and photogenic which the rest of the world no doubt have already noticed. And that she wins a karaoke contest! Surprise, surprise.
Crossroads is a road movie. Three high school girls take off for a long drive to California with an unknown hunk who is rumoured to be a murderer (but who also has a car). That's about it.
Films like these win or fail according to how interesting you find the characters. Lucy (Spears) is searching for her estranged Mum in Arizona.
Kit (Zoe Saldana) is chasing after her boyfriend in L.A.. Mimi (Taryn Manning (Crazy/Beautiful) is pregnant and heading to a band audition in L.A.!
The boy Ben (Anson Mount) is there mainly to look handsome for the girls and coincidentally to compose music for Lucy's poetry. It all sounds fairly unpromising I know but Lucy and Mimi make a fairly weak script sing quite a bit at times.
Things get pretty dramatic too in an offhand sort of way, to the extent that I thought for a moment that Mimi had gained her name from Puccini's La Boheme.
That's no criticism either. Taryn Manning as Mimi adds quite a bit of bounce to film that could have been just a teenage homage to Britney. Crossroads has presented Britney Spears as an actress with a good deal of charm and a script that takes a surprisingly serious bent.
3 Flys with Bared Navels Out Of Five.