Blonde Ambition

Just seeing Jessica Simpson on the cover already tells me a lot about this movie. I mean, she is a sweet girl and I think she can sing (compared to Britney, that is, and when she's not shrieking), but really, I don't get why singers go into acting. I mean, isn't a success in one aspect of showbiz enough?

Only a handful of singers can pull off the singing-to-acting crossover (and this applies too to actors who suddenly shoves out an album), and oftentimes they're a one movie hit wonder.

Take mandy Moore for example. She is a good singer, and I loved A Walk to Remember, no matter what anybody else says. She can really pull off the sickly girl part. And it did help that the story was amazing. But all her other movies are...bleugh. Chasing Liberty was okay though, but that's about it.

Jennifer Lopez is a different thing. She's not at par with the kinds of Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, but she fits her genre. She does mostly romantic comedies (which I love!) and I actually find her funny. She has this natural-ness to her when she acts and it's nice. Of course, she's a chart-topping music goddess too, not that I'm into her genre in music but I appreciate a few songs.

Don't get me started on Britney's Crossroads. I think I watched that as penance for all the chocolate ice cream and cheesecake I ate. Britney has a unique voice (albeit irritating at times) and I liked her up until her second album, and maybe a bit of the third. Then she goes and drinks bong water that went up to her brain and never left. I just wish she gets fixed already because I don't hate her; I just hate what's happening to her.

Anyway, about the movie! It's a disaster. It's about this small town country girl who's living with her grandfather who owns a shop and has gone in debt so she goes to the city to get a job to buy the mortgage of the shop. She's also engaged to this small town "model" dude that's actually a sham and a loser who dumped her. Then she gets manipulated into having a job in a top construction or real estate company, I'm not sure, I just know they're dealing with selling and building places. So it turns out that she was just being used and she goes right back up and kicks ass!

It's a happy ending. Share my pain and go see this for yourself to know how it happened.

Jessica's acting was so fake it hurt watching her smile sweetly and innocently. She's a lovely girl, but if Luke Wilson weren't in that movie I wouldn't have watched it. I mean, Jessica was like being Jessica in the movie and not her character. Or maybe her character was so much like her that I can't tell the difference. I hope they stop making her play dumb clueless country blondes and make her do a high-end bitchy kind of role, you know, for a bit of a challenge. Maybe she can pull it off, and then maybe I can finally tell if she's playing herself or a character.

I'll have to watch more DVDs now!