bgar-80932 Movie is clearly made for TV. I don't know if that's true or not but it seems like some Hallmark middle of the day in the week type stuff. It's the true story of some dumb kids going around robbing celebrities. They are all super unlikable and cringe inducing. Like they're just having a blast in these celebs houses and recording videos and such. How would you not get caught? The cops got onto them after a bit and they still were out being dumb. In a movie you try to put yourself in their shoes and it's just crazy how dumb they were especially if that's how the actual events went down. Oh and I really hated the dialogue.

moonspinner55 Director Sofia Coppola also co-produced and wrote this expansion of Nancy Jo Sales' 2010 Vanity Fair article "The Suspect Wore Louboutins", based on real events, about a circle of trendy, well-to-do southern California teenagers, reckless and celebrity-obsessed, who see themselves as rock stars by virtue of their youth and position. A new addition to the group, an insecure kid eager to be with the in-crowd, is quickly swallowed up by the nighttime excitement, doing drugs and robbing celebrity houses in the Hollywood Hills without regard to the consequences. Though Coppola obviously did her homework, and her film looks and sounds authentic, one wonders what we're supposed to take away from the endless scenes of teenage hedonism and material worship, the camera caressing the contents of celebrity closets. It also isn't clear why this new student (Israel Broussard) is picked out from the high school pack to be a part of the Bling Ring, or why he's so readily accepted by female peers who, on the basis of looks and stature, would appear to operate in a different league. Coppola's uncanny ear for dialogue and rock and rap selections continues to impress, but it may be time for her to graduate from 'edgy' pop culture and return to more thought-provoking material. A 2011 cable-TV movie (using the same title!) covers the same territory, and is equally disheartening though on a much lower budget. *1/2 from ****

Freddy Schmitz "Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes."That's the plot summary on IMDb and that's all there is to this movie. The teenagers rob a celebrity's house, steal stuff, go to parties with the stolen money and boast about it on social media. "The Bling Ring" fails on almost every Level. It tries to criticize the shallow glamour life of Hollywood and its fandom by merely observing it. There is no deeper message found in this film than that the celebrity cult is as morally empty, vain and stupid as the movie that is jeopardizing it.The characters are uninteresting and one- dimensional. Acting is uninspired but the actors couldn't really make their characters any more interesting because of the boring script. The plot does nothing but to repeat itself for over an hour until it ends exactly how you would think it would end. "The Bling Ring" concludes itself with a lame pun at the end. Nothing to be proud of but at least it fits the overall superficiality of the rest of the film. The soundtrack consists mainly of main stream rap usually heard in clubs. A bit annoying but it goes well with "The Bling Ring"'s theme. The only good aspect is the camera work.2/10 - not recommended

Uncle Marvin The Bling Ring is a true crime story about a teeny hole-in-the-wall gang targeting celebrities. The kids used social media to follow the comings and goings of the celebrities and ironically learned when to break-in. Rather than sell the jewelry, or "bling," they keep it as fashionable souvenirs they model on facebook, leading to their own discovery and arrest. Director Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, The Virgin Diaries) said she got the idea from a magazine article entitled "The Suspects Wore Louboutins." The Bling Ring satirizes Southern California and the Cult of Celebrity. The characters live in Calabasas, California, home to the Kardashians, and dream of reality stardom, and careers in lifestyle marketing. Leslie Mann makes a cameo as a shallow stage mom. Something I found interesting about The Bling Ring is that there was no real protagonist. Enjoy it with a bottle of Sofia Coppola's Blanc de Blanc from the Coppola winery. I recommend them both.