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Selena Gomez makes another Disney
Channel original movie in the
Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie.
Like the show, her character Alex is
constantly feuding with her brother
Justin (David Henrie) while getting
into constant trouble with her
misuse of magical power. In the
movie, Alex gets angry with her
parents for making her take a family
vacation and jeopardizes her whole
family when she says a typical
teenage girl thing to say and her
parents wind up not knowing each.
When this happens not only is it
strange for all three kids, they're
also in danger of basically not
existing. Think Back to the
Future with magic, older
parents acting like teenagers, and
Disneyfied!
The TV series actually makes a
decent transfer to movie form. The
camera work and all of the
cinematography is made to look like
a movie and not the TV show. They
could have easily just used the TV
cameras and made a longer episode.
It's good that they didn't. That’s
one of the first things you notice.
The other thing that’s kind of cool
about the movie is how fast it
flows. It’s a full length movie but
it doesn’t feel like one. It feels
like another episode of the show.
On the other side of that, this is
what it is. It’s a movie for tweens
that like the TV show. It’s likable
by all, but really the show is made
for its demo and so is the movie.
Everyone can watch this once…. but
it’s fans of the show that will be
able to watch the movie over and
over. |