I recently watched Hannah Montana: The Movie and loved every second of it! I wasn’t a fan but now I am. J Haha So, here’s what I think of the movie. 
It’s A Climb
By Mari Colinares
MILEY Stewart (Miley Cyrus) is an ordinary teenager… or so she wants us to believe she is. Yes, she might literally look a little plain but no, she’s no commonplace person. Why? What makes her so special? Well, her hair tells it all.
If Superman has his red cape and blue tights, Hannah Montana has her blond wig. Once this brunette dons the wig, she transforms into what every adolescent girl secretly dreams to be a pop star! Say it again, a pop star! Yes, Miley Stewart is Hannah Montana. It’s amazing how a wig can fool the whole world. One minute she’s a high school student who gets hit by a volleyball, the next she’s blond and a Very Important Person shopping for free, expensive stuff.
Directed by Peter Chelsom, Hannah Montana: The Movie shows how getting “the best of both worlds,” as her song goes, sounds like the perfect life. What else could Miley possible NOT have, right? But being the singing superstar, Hannah Montana, asks a lot from Miley Stewart. Time, being the greatest thing she has to sacrifice just to make to Hannah possible. And here lies the conflict of the story. One cannot live being two persons at the same time. It’s just not possible. Even a person with multi-personality disorder is just one person at a time. So what’s she gonna do?
From spoiled, bratty kid who thinks she’s all that to low-key country girl content with a quiet life in a ranch, Miley Cyrus’s performance isn’t a bit disappointing considering that she had to act as two people in addition to singing and dancing like she’s used to. The highlight of her performance isn’t the concert or the dramatic scenes with her dad but the fast-paced part where she had to transform into Miley then back to Hannah then to Miley then back to Hannah then to Miley and so on. It was perfect. This teenager sure knows how to act like a teenager.
Billy Ray Stewart (Billy Ray Cyrus), dad of Miley, didn’t do much but act like his usual cowboy-self. Of course, being the real life father of Miley must have made acting like a daddy easier. And every time he’d look sincere, as if he was about to sing, one couldn’t help but expect him to break into “Achy, Breaky Heart.” But he didn’t of course. It was his daughter’s time to shine, not his.
Another person that just shone in the screen is pretty boy Lucas Till who played Travis Brody, cowboy-lover-boy of Miley. All he had to do was ride a horse and grin a lot to capture the hearts of the audience. Yes, he was really adorable. His moments with Miley were cheesy but tolerable. Enviable, even. A girl would literally throw herself off a horse if she knew her savior would be a blonde hair, blue-eyed Adonis like Brody (Till).
Hannah Montana: The Movie is a modern fairytale-a true Disney original, to be exact. There’s a singing heroine, a charming hero, a king-of-the-house-daddy, an understanding best friend, and not to mention a horse named Blue Jeans. And like Jasmine, Snow White, Ariel, and Cinderella, Miley doesn’t have a mother. Makes one wonder why the mother of these damsels always die. The only aspect that makes this movie deviate from the normal fairytale is that the stepmother-to-be of Miley is no witch. But then again, she could still turn evil once she marries Billy Ray. No one knows for sure.
The film is preachy but in a tolerable way. Do not let the color of your wig get into your head, set your priorities straight, value family first before fans, the movie seems to say. Also, the value of honesty is strongly touched on by the movie. All these messages seem appropriate bearing in mind that the movie’s target audience is impressionable adolescent girls.
It’s brilliant how music is used to convey important messages in the film. Gone are the melodic but empty songs some teenage musicals tend to overflow with. In Hannah Montana: The Movie, Cyrus bursts into songs that are both catchy and meaningful. “There’s always gonna be another mountain, I’m always gonna wanna make it move… It’s the climb,” Miley belts out “The Climb,” a song she wrote based on the words of her cowboy-lover-boy Travis Brody (Till). “Life’s a climb,” he told her and thus “The Climb” was born.
The quaint town of Crowley Corners in Tennessee was the perfect setting. The stark difference between the lifestyle in big city and the country highlighted the disparity of Miley’s two worlds. Her wardrobe played a big role in the movie too. Aside from her hair color, the distinct look of Miley and Hannah’s clothes were enough of an explanation on who she was at a particular scene. Fortunately for Cyrus, the superstar and cowgirl clothes her petite frame donned brought her to the borderline of cute.
The movie is generally cute and comic. One particular event to look out for is the shoe fight between Hannah Montana and Tyra Banks. It’s a pleasure to watch how it can get nasty between women when it comes to shoes. Although some scenes are so cheesy it makes one cringe, other aspects like the witty dialogue make up for it.
The movie is delightful to watch. It’s a notch higher, “it’s a climb,” from the TV series. A Hannah Montana fan will love it. A non-Hannah Montana fan will fall in love with it.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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First question pa lang and I’m stumped already!!! hahaha Okay, so I think I’d have to find a MALE bestfriend first. 