studioAT
As a vehicle for the rising star that is Emma Roberts this film works well. Although the other youngsters do well in their roles, its Roberts who shines in every scene.She manages to be spoilt, funny, pretty and vulnerable all at the same time, and that's not easy to do in a script that doesn't seem to know whether its aiming for the teen or adult audience.There are some fun life lessons to be learnt here, and it certainly has its heart in the right place. It's not worth wasting time asking questions about the plot, or thinking about the very cringy not funny moments featuring Jason Watkins, because this film really is all about fun.It's not surprising that Emma Roberts went on to do bigger and better things after this, because she's fab here.
im_a_werewolf
When i got this movie,i was thinking "Emma Roberts,eh?Probbably something 10 year old' would watch.."Then,i started watching.It was a funny movie,and mostly cliché,in which when poppy's best friend Ruby cheats with her boyfriend,Ronny.And of course when the whole school almost burns down.But ,by the time it was over,i was already laughing at how they used everything into one big ball of over exaggerated clichés,which in this case are hilarious!Starting off,poppy More is not wanting her dads girlfriend to move in ,so shes takes it to far by throwing all of her stuff in a lake by their house,which sets off her dad into making her start school in a boarding school in London,in which she finds friends,enemies,her decease mom,and love.
Saad Khan
WILD CHILD – TRASH IT ( C ) When I decided to watch Wild Child, I knew its going to be painful but I watched it for Alex Pettyfer & Emma Roberts (together). The movie starts off really dreadfully so I thought its going to be unbearable and Emma Roberts in her Blonde Wig and Snotty attitude was looking like a crap actress, she couldn't pull of the Bitchy attitude at all. Emma Roberts tried to look like uptown girl but dressed like she is coming from 70s even if you ask me in 70s they dressed much better, she was in her own mediocre lead... The moment she came back into her original brunette hairs, somehow the movie also got from Dreadful to Mediocre. Emma Roberts as blonde was crap though as brunette she did fine. Alex Pettyfer as usual in his charming attitude and looked great with Emma (sad or great actually they didn't work out in real life). Kimberley Nixon and Juno Temple did a fine job and both are quite talented. All the other girls were fine. Overall a complete teen movie with otter mediocrity, so Trash it unless like me you also want to see Alex & Emma together!
Sherazade
This is perhaps Emma Roberts's answer to her aunt Julia's 'Pretty Woman', it wasn't that bad, I mean she did not come off as a wanna-be Julia Roberts but something was just off with the film. The first half seemed like the director was trying too hard to get the audience to believe that sweet little Emma Roberts could be so bratty. I enjoyed it, but it could have been better. There were way too many spoofs (Kiera Knightley, Kate Winslet, Sporty Spice, Ashley Tisdale, Brenda Song etc. etc.) for my liking and Alex Pettyfer was given too little to do in the film. It was Natasha Richardson's(R.I.P.) last film and she held her own but other than that, the film was just average.
AD
