I am not a fan of
Britney Spears. I never will be a fan of Britney Spears. I didn’t enjoy
Crossroads. I will never enjoy Crossroads. Fans of Britney will
love Crossroads, any average person will not.
This movie has its moments, it has its laughs, it’s not totally inhumane;
but the suffering it causes is unexplainable. Everything looks so fake,
the dialogue is spoken with such deception; it takes away from the very
triumphant story. This is not Britney’s fault; she did
well for a debut movie. But rather the script writers and directors fault;
they were the ones who should’ve taken the scenes over, made the story
more realistic above all; changed the viewers perception of the
characters. Crossroads was not at all realistic, there were
endless unbelievable flaws encased within the plot. I must’ve said “Oh,
Brother” a million times while watching it.
Crossroads begins with a prologue showing three girls burying a
time-capsule in the ground. In side of the box is each of their plans for
the future. They vow to be best friends forever and to unbury and open the
time-capsule at
12 AM the night of their high
school graduation.
Graduation night comes and all three of them are at a party. One of them
brings up the idea of digging the time-capsule up and the other two don’t
want to. Even though through their teen years all three had grown apart;
one turning out to be a book worm, another; trailer-trash, and the third;
a beauty queen; they all miraculously show up at the burial area, after
feeling bad about turning one another down.
They begin to dig, and soon come upon the box. They open it up and find
each others plans for the future from their childhood, which had all
extremely changed over the course of eight years. After digging, one of
the girls brings up the idea of going to
Los Angeles and auditioning for a
record-deal. The other two, once again choose to bail.
The next day comes and guess what? Another serendipity proceeds to happen.
All three of them show up for the road trip! Crossroads is full
of mindless adventures, partying, and of course the half-slut, yet
proclaimed roll-model; Britney Spears. In my mind, it makes a good rental,
but is definitely not worth a trip to the theatre, unless of course you
are a die-hard Britney fan.
What I don’t understand is why all of the teenage popstars play nerds in
movies! Here Britney is in Crossroads playing a girl who writes
poetry and is aiming for a double major? Something seems wrong about this
in my head. And, In Mandy Moore’s movie A Walk To Remember they
describe her as “A straight-laced daughter of a preacher”! Come on! These
roles aren’t anything like what they are in real life. Maybe this is why
the movies they are in are so fake-looking.
Crossroads is only for die-hard Britney Spears fan. I enjoyed
watching it on DVD, but it is still not enough of a movie for me to
recommend it. See this if you really want to, it is a shaky, but remotely
good adventure.
-Danny, Bucket Reviews