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Film Review: Lovewrecked

A real wreck
By: Rianne Hill Soriano

Starring: Amanda Bynes, Chris Carmack, Jonathan Bennett, Jamie-Lynn DiScala
Directed by: Randal Kleiser

The cinematic location of the Caribbean paradise has not saved ‘Lovewrecked’ from its B-movie special effects and very lame storyline. Amanda Bynes’ acting style tries to add life to the lousy script through her light-hearted quirky personality in the movie. However, the entire cinematic cruise does not become an enjoyable ride still.

‘Lovewrecked’ delves around a teeny-bopper story about Jenny (Amanda Bynes) who finds herself trapped in a seemingly deserted island with her dream guy, rock star Jason Masters (Chris Carmack).

Jenny, along with her lifelong friend Ryan (Jonathan Bennett), works as intern at a Caribbean resort for summer. When Jenny saves super rock star Jason after falling off a cruise ship, Jenny and Jason need to survive life in an uninhabited island. From here, Jenny starts to rock his world without him knowing that Jenny has already realized that they are just around three miles away from the luxury resort. Jenny takes advantage of the situation so she can spend more time alone with Jason by making him believe that they are castaways stranded in a remote beach. Things get even more complicated when Jenny’s rival Alexis (Jamie-Lynn DiScala) pretends to be shipwrecked too, and they both compete for Jason’s affection.

The filming location can’t hide the spectacular view of nature’s fine looks. And yet, the cinematography is far from impressive. And more than the Carribean charm and the soaking wet bikinis, there is nothing else for the audience to enjoy the movie. Worse, it runs out of air with its poor story and ineffective exaggerations.

The movie has not even regarded coming up with impressive special effects to at least cover up its inferior characterization and weak dialogues. A number of shots of Jenny and Jason while on their lifeboat and on their way to the supposedly unknown island don’t match the establishing shots of the wide seas – as if they have been placed there during post-production without any attempt for a seamless touch (or this maybe due to low budget…).

Just like Jenny getting overboard in order to get the guy of her dreams, the movie deliriously goes overboard as well in allowing too sloppy acting and dull production values to dominate the entire movie. Too bland and uninspiring, it manages to merely stay within the bounds of flimsy plotpoints in the midst of its cinematic Caribbean locations. Indeed, it has no attempts to come up with a certain level of creativity whatsoever.

In any case, this romantic flick has never gotten any form of compromise to rock the audience’s simplest taste. It’s better of and more likely a bit more bearable if it has just been a TV episode of a teenybopper series. Just save your hundred bucks for a better movie next time around.

July 19th, 2006 Posted by Rianne | Comedy, Film Review, Flicks, Youth/Teenybopper | 2 comments