Prom. It's one of the biggest night in high school and Disney's movie "Prom" brings to life the biggest days for many juniors in high school. With multiple story lines, humorous interactions, and real life situations the movie captures what is going through the minds of teenage girls all over the United States. The movie steps into the life of high school students trying to prepare for prom while still managing all other aspects of life. The main focus duo, Nova (Aimee Teegarden), who returns to the role of the perfect A+ student that she played in "Friday Night Lights", and Jesse (Thomas McDonell), who is the resident bad boy in the film, are forced to work together after a fire destroys all the prom decorations. Because of Nova and Jesse being polar opposites, they share witty lines of banter. You get to follow the roller coaster of feelings that Jesse gives Nova. Nova also faces the fear of going to prom alone as all her friends are getting asked and she's not. But as you see into every prom relationship, you notice that everyone is going through a struggle and facing doubts. As the movie progresses and you see more so into the life of these high schoolers, you see that they are all going through a struggle. Simone (Danielle Campbell) falls for two very different guys and has to face reality of choosing between the two. One of the boys being a fellow underclassman, Lucas, who is obsessed with weird bands. He shows the awkwardness that a pretty girl brings out in most boys, and the real struggle of trying to get the girl. Jordan (Kylie Bunbury) is the typical prom queen candidate with the perfect varsity jock star boyfriend Tyler (DeVaughn Nixon). As their relationship faces the fear of break up, their characters develop in a new way. Tyler brings to light the "typical" jock that does whatever he wants and has no fear of repercussion. Jordan's fears in the relationship show what many girls are afraid of, losing someone they invested a lot of time into. Lloyd (Nicholas Braun) brings the most humor to the movie with his failed attempts at asking girls, yes plural, to prom. In one scene he cuts out letters from a magazine and writes what he thinks is a heartwarming sweet message on a girl's locker asking her to prom. But, in reality is extremely creepy and would send any girl running. Having numerous story lines usually leads to confusion but in this movie the cast works smoothly together feeding off the chemistry and skills of their co-stars. As they intermingle within each other they create a sense of unity and cleanliness. But, however girlie this movie may seem the men should watch it too, even if it is just to get awesome promposal ideas for their future prom.This movie overall is the exact right combination of passion and humor to make any teenager to fantasize about their prom days and for adults to reminisce about their magical day.

I watched this when I was a watcher of Disney channel. And after discovering Thomas Mcdonell in the 100, I didn't realised he was the bad boy. I had to watch it again. This is a perfect teenage life story movie. The highs and lows of high-school, the highs and lows about romance and the future. Everything that someone could experience during high-school was in this movie. The fact that the good girl had to work with the bad boy, and changed him, was perfect. Fairytale romance. Even though Thomas Mcdonell is in his late 20's, he still plays the perfect teenager. I loved the moral of his story, never judge a book by it's cover. One normal girl could change a boy.

How I ended up watching a clichéd Disney produced film at two in the morning is anyone's guess. How I persevered after the first fifteen minutes is an even more puzzling question. The opening of this film is truly diabolical; bad lines, bad acting, totally derivative, the characters nothing but stereotypes. There's also what feels like dozens of people introduced within the first five or six scenes, which is never good. The hero (anti-hero) was pretty much a carbon copy of Judd Nelson in The Breakfast Club; and of course, the guy from the wrong side of the tracks falls for the rich girl, dad warns him off, but it all comes right in the end.To my surprise it picked up, and I even had a smile on my face by the end, which is surely the point of these sugary tween movies. The highlights were the two hipster indie kid sophomores, played by the very promising Cameron Monaghan and Nolan Sotillo. The banter was funny, they had great chemistry with each other, they acted great and looked the part. No reason they shouldn't go far in the future, and I believe Monaghan has already established himself in television. The rest of the cast were serviceable if a little less memorable.As for the plot and writing, it was all of course hopelessly predictable, and some of the lines will have you laughing for the wrong reasons, but somehow it was almost refreshing to watch a film where I knew there would be a happy ending. Grown up Hollywood has a tendency to feel their film won't be considered 'serious' or 'artistic' if they don't end it with tragedy, which leads to many an inane and pointless death to close out a movie. Here, the good guys get together, lessons are learned, and there are enough nice little sweet moments like the candy necklace (no pun intended) to feel your intelligence hasn't been insulted too much by sitting through a movie that really anyone over thirteen will have seen many times before. It helped that the soundtrack was excellent, especially the M83 and Passion Pit songs. Films like this are a great way for tweens to find music other than what is promoted on the radio or music channels.There are many worse films than this, although I can't think of many worse opening few scenes.

Why does this have such a low rating? I give it 10/10 to make the rating more accurate! Some parts of the movie did annoy me. But they were brief and it would not be right to punish such a wonderful movie for a couple moments.Spoilers after this point:This movie is not cliché in anyway. You know why? Because these things actually happen! I've seen them happen in real life with my naked eyes. It's not the normal garbage movie like "She's All That" (1999) where the "ugly" girl that is clearly beautiful is given a "makeover" and gets the most popular/attractive/nice/smart/etc. guy in school. It's realistic because it covers every spectrum of relationship. The main one it covers is the whole opposites attract one. Nice girl meets tough guy. Nova Prescott (Aimee Teegarden) is the nice girl, the class president, has hopes and dreams, and is a very dedicated student. While Jesse Richter (Thomas McDonell) is the tough guy that has no dreams and bashes everything since he's had a tough life.So Nova's prom decorations get destroyed and the rest of the prom committee does not have the time to help her rebuild (internships, A.P. tests, exhaustion, etc.). So the principal, who was also bashed by Jesse, makes Jesse help Nova. Of course they both protest. Nova objects because she sees Jesse as a slacker, and Jesse objects because he does not care about prom, more bashing. They spend time together and wouldn't you know it, there is attraction! Well both actors are great looking! But what I mean is that they see into each other's souls, hearts, and minds. I really feel this happening. It's not like other movies where the attraction is not explained like "Twilight" (2008) where Bella just "falls in love" with Edward. It's not explained why they are attracted to one another! Not even in the books! It's very shallow: it seems as if Bella/Edward is simply a physical attraction as that is all they talk about. She talks about how his arms are like marble, and every guy hits on Bella. In "Prom" (2011) the attraction is explained. They see that there is more than meets the eye. Nova understands Jesse's tough life to explain his "slacker" ways. And Jesse understands the pressure Nova is under to be perfect to explain her "nerd" ways. There are lots more to this. You just gotta see this movie. :DNow to the parts I did not like. In this movie there were lots of sub stories. The one I did not like was the couple that was together since middle school. I know these couples exist, but their story seemed like filler and just unnecessary.I liked the sub story of Lloyd Taylor (Nicholas Braun) since that was the most realistic. Most people in high school are shy. I liked the cute scene where he mentors the young guy that is also shy! So great!This is a great movie don't miss it because someone told you it was bad. Whoever does not like this movie is cold. This film is so happy! How could you dislike it?