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By April 28, 2011No Comments

Disney-prom-2

I see that many of my fel­low crit­ics are tak­ing Disney’s Prom very ser­i­ously indeed, examin­ing its entrails for evid­ence con­cern­ing the state of gender roles and ste­reo­typ­ing and that kinda stuff in the zei­geist and all. Gee. I guess I did­n’t get the memo that this was a Significant Film, because I mainly goof on the thing in my review of it for MSN Movies; above, its appeal­ing cost­ars Aimee Teegarden and Keanu Depp, Jr., or who­ever the hell he is (okay, Thomas McDonnell). 

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  • Frank McDevitt says:
    April 28, 2011 at 9:34 pm

    From now on I will refer to this Thomas McDonnell guy as “Keanu Depp Jr.”, with your per­mis­sion of course.

  • MovieMan0283 says:
    April 28, 2011 at 10:49 pm

    Tell us about your prom, Glenn…

  • lipranzer says:
    April 29, 2011 at 12:19 am

    From the pro­file, McDonnell also looks like Teagarden’s co-star from “Friday Night Lights”, Taylor Kitsch.
    I must be read­ing the wrong crit­ics – the only review I read that used the movie as an excuse to dis­cuss Big Themes was Andrew O’Hehir at Salon (aside; I did­n’t go to any of my proms, high school or col­lege). Who else?

  • I.B. says:
    April 29, 2011 at 5:11 am

    I read “cur­rent cinema”. Then I see te photo. Then I reread “cur­rent cinema”, indeed. Then I ask myself, ‘that looks like a late 80s movie to me, and that’s Keanu’. Then I read the paragraph.
    D’oh!

  • Glenn Kenny says:
    April 29, 2011 at 5:31 am

    @ lipran­zer: See here: http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2011/04/27/prom_early_reviews_formulaic_tween_fantasy_flick_or_destructive_stereotype_/

  • EOTW says:
    April 29, 2011 at 12:51 pm

    Mmmmm…Aimee Teegarden…yummm.

  • CO says:
    April 29, 2011 at 1:19 pm

    Jah, Aimee Teergarden is a foxy fox.

  • Ahmed Mitchell says:
    April 29, 2011 at 3:05 pm

    “…at the behest of his eager-beaver step­sister (played by a dead ringer for con­ser­vat­ive pun­dit Kathryn Jean Lopez)” ‑Glenn Kenny PROM review, April 28, 2011
    “…the two kids with the ostens­ible adults above are Griffin Gluck and Bailee Madison (I think the lat­ter would do very well in my pro­posed biop­ic pro­ject Young Kathryn Jean Lopez)” ‑Glenn Kenny, on JUST GO WITH IT, February 10, 2011
    I think someone has a screen­play in their desk draw­er about every­one’s favor­ite National Review editor/Mitt Romney fan! Either that or while watch­ing obvi­ous driv­el, your mind nat­ur­ally goes to K‑Lo, for which who could blame you? Auditions look like they’re going to be tricky, though…

  • Matt Dutto says:
    April 29, 2011 at 3:55 pm

    Aimee Teergarden is a Martin Amis char­ac­ter name wait­ing to happen.