Radio Rebel

2012 "Can the girl who never speaks... Become the voice of a generation?"
5.7| 1h30m| en| More Info
Released: 09 June 2012 Released
Producted By: MarVista Entertainment
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
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Official Website: http://tv.disney.go.com/disneychannel/originalmovies/radiorebel/
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High school senior Tara is so painfully shy that she dreads speaking to anyone in the hallways or getting called on in class. But in the privacy of her bedroom with her iPod in hand, she rocks out -- doing mock broadcasts for Miami's hottest FM radio station, which happens to be owned by her stepfather. When a slot opens up at The SLAM, Tara surprises herself by blossoming behind the mike into confident, "Radio Rebel" -- and to everyone's shock, she's a hit!

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blumdeluxe For a start I should probably say that I'm most likely not the aimed audience for this title, which makes my rating at least difficult.Nevertheless, I believe there are good children or teen movies for grown ups as well, so I'll give it a go. In the beginning I was really afraid that my worst predictions come true when I saw all the stereotypes collapsing. Indeed, the movie follows a quite common story line that is poor of surprises for people above a certain age. I do think that it has an important message to tell, but it doesn't stand out compared to other titles of this genre. While some of the running gags are so much over the top that they worked surprisingly well for me, others were just over the top. I developed kind of a sympathy for the main characters but especially the sidekicks at times reminded me of comic books, being very one-dimensional.It's popcorn cinema, you can watch it without really getting bored but all in all you could have created a much more lasting movie around the basic message. 4/10 from me, under the condition that it wasn't perhaps produced for me.
Keva Duke Radio Rebel is about the cliché shy girl that doesn't have many friends, with of course. The predictable twist. She's a beloved anonymous DJ, looked up to by all her school peeps. But they don't know its her. Obviously. It has all the characters and persona's to make the ultimate cringe-worthy teen movie, the mean girl, the crush, the outspoken and slightly over-enthusiastic best friend and most of all: cringe- worthy acting and bad plot.There was, yes some touching and heart-spoken parts of this movie. But nearly every single teen movie has something about "empowering yourself" and "not letting anyone bring you down". Its pretty obvious that this movie tried hard, maybe even too hard. And no doubt Debby Ryan is a good actress, because she wouldn't be where she is now without some good acting chops. But this movie does not make her shine, quite frankly. It does the opposite.I'm sorry to say it myself but I can only be brutally honest in a review, not sugarcoat everything and make you think this movie is good. Because, its not. It's quite cliché, predictable and badly acted. Sorry Debby.
Idly For all of you out there whos considering watching this movie, for whatever reason, my sincere advice: Stay away from it.I don't care if this movie is rip off anything. If its a rip off, it can change a bit of the plot and characters and also messages and still be a good movie, or at least be something to entertaining. But this is so not what the movie even reached to.I don't know how by any way someone could put this like 6 or 7? Cause it reached 6.2 eventually. But just try watch it and you'll see how terrible it is: The characters is really poorly-made with no actual personality, they just tried to make the old type represented, a shy girl, a good looking boy, a popular and evil girlfriend who hates on the main girl and of course gained nothing at the end of the movie. The plot is no surprise, super cheesy. In a high school where kids just want party and party and yeah!(sr but this terrible feeling reminds me of Rebecca Black - Friday, though that song is much much better) and the teachers tried to prevented them to be so. And of course, the Radio Rebel is the one kids looked up to (kind of) cause she told them to do whatever they want. As you may guessed, the Radio Rebel is the main character and finally when ppl found out its her they all loved her, including the good looking boy, end of story. It seriously NOTHING more than that. It don't have a brainstorming and is made under the understanding level of an 8 year old kid.Not to mention to the acting, I felt like they don't have any better choice than this horrible script and joined only with hope that somebody may remember their face and that's all. The acting is so very ...fake cause I don't have any better words. The good looking boy is average, nothing stand out even in his look or in his personality, the girlfriend is not beautiful at all and not evil enough, and the shy girl is no where near wearing anything "shy". In short, this movie is a shame remake of any-typical-Cinderella-story movie. I'd rather the money for this sent to the charity or something like that. It made the beautiful message "stand up for yourself" stinks and cheesy and annoying. Its not even worth my hate. Its just sad that ppl are actually waste time and money into these meaningless stuffs!!
David Jones This movie is an awful ripoff of the movie "Pump up the volume" staring Christian Slater(1990). I just can"t believe this. I have no words for this. Or maybe I do. Although the original is not a motion picture masterpiece, it conveys the reality of our educational system with a flare of comedy and reality. The Movie "Radio Rebel" Is an absolute stupid ripoff of the movie "Pump Up The Volume". What a lame ass attempt at a remake without remake permission. What really sucks is that I have to wright 10 lines to get this review to show up. I have to fill up two more lines up yet, so I will say the movie called Radio Rebel (2012)Absolutely sucks. Don't watch Radio Rebel. Pump up the volume is much better.