What Goes Up Movie Reviews
For those that are wondering if they should watch “What Goes Up” the movie where Hilary Duff is one of the misfit students. Stephen Whitty of NJ.com saw the movie and has wrote a review.
“What Goes Up” wants to be a story about how soaring aspirations can crash to earth, how sky-high reputations sometimes end up being taken down a peg. “Must come down” is, of course, the unspoken part of its title — and its implied moral.
It would have been a better film if it had left a lot more unspoken, too.
Now here’s what he said about Hilary Duff:
Coogan is interesting to watch — nobody is better at small, choreographed dances of embarrassment, as when he fends off a pass here from Molly Shannon — and Hilary Duff continues to try to break out of the kid-star trap. (With her big Maybelline eyes and pretty bobblehead, she’s like an Olsen sister who suddenly learned to act.)
Alas, Olivia Thirlby — so unconsciously funny in “Juno” — has less luck with the badly written character of one of Duff’s schoolmates. And Josh Peck follows up his turn in the awful “The Wackness” with another laughable performance, staggering dead-eyed through his scenes like some onanistic zombie.
For the rest of the review head over to NJ.com. I think after reading this review I definitely want to see it. I was somewhat interested when rumors came out about this movie so it’ll at least satisfy the interest.
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