From Justin to Kelly to the World
You may have heard of a little movie called "From Justin to Kelly." Actually, the full title is "From Justin to Kelly With Love." Not that it is appropro of anything in particular, but who knows, maybe someday you’ll win a trivia contest with that little bit of knowledge.
You’ll never catch us proclaiming that J2K (as it is fondly known among Justin and Kelly fans) is great cinema, but it was what it was and it has found an audience. They originally set out to make a spring break movie for teens and ended up making a made-for-TV movie for tweens. Too bad they decided to release it in theaters. If it had been shown on FOX, that network may have had their own version of a hit ala Disney’s "High School Musical."
Before you laugh and think we’re deluded, we have reason for making this claim. J2K has been shown a number of times on the ABC Family Channel. Every time, every single time, we see a flood of traffic to our website. All kinds of people, looking for info on Justin in general and the soundtrack in particular (which, by the way, we have on the site, including Justin’s solo which was inexplicably cut from the film although 1) it supplies a vital plot point and 2) it’s actually a decent song).
Not only that, but this little movie has legs that has carried it around the world. Recently, it reportedly aired in Germany. Once again, like clockwork, we were flooded with German visitors, looking for more about that curly haired cutie they saw in the movie. We’ve seen people from all over - the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Iran (yes, we said Iran), South Africa, and a multiplicity of other nations - come, seeking photos and lyrics and mp3s and anything else they can find. The international response to the movie is most interesting, because people seeing it overseas most likely were not influenced by the over-the-top negativity heaped on the movie by the venomous American press.
It’s a movie you can watch with your kids, or let your kids watch on their own, and you probably won’t have to de-program them from anything they saw or heard. Can’t say that about many non-animated movies these days, and it's a nice change from talking wildlife. So there’s reason alone to turn it on the next time it airs. That, and you may actually like the music. Really. That’s all we’re sayin’. We give it two Idol stars.
You’ll never catch us proclaiming that J2K (as it is fondly known among Justin and Kelly fans) is great cinema, but it was what it was and it has found an audience. They originally set out to make a spring break movie for teens and ended up making a made-for-TV movie for tweens. Too bad they decided to release it in theaters. If it had been shown on FOX, that network may have had their own version of a hit ala Disney’s "High School Musical."
Before you laugh and think we’re deluded, we have reason for making this claim. J2K has been shown a number of times on the ABC Family Channel. Every time, every single time, we see a flood of traffic to our website. All kinds of people, looking for info on Justin in general and the soundtrack in particular (which, by the way, we have on the site, including Justin’s solo which was inexplicably cut from the film although 1) it supplies a vital plot point and 2) it’s actually a decent song).
Not only that, but this little movie has legs that has carried it around the world. Recently, it reportedly aired in Germany. Once again, like clockwork, we were flooded with German visitors, looking for more about that curly haired cutie they saw in the movie. We’ve seen people from all over - the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Iran (yes, we said Iran), South Africa, and a multiplicity of other nations - come, seeking photos and lyrics and mp3s and anything else they can find. The international response to the movie is most interesting, because people seeing it overseas most likely were not influenced by the over-the-top negativity heaped on the movie by the venomous American press.
It’s a movie you can watch with your kids, or let your kids watch on their own, and you probably won’t have to de-program them from anything they saw or heard. Can’t say that about many non-animated movies these days, and it's a nice change from talking wildlife. So there’s reason alone to turn it on the next time it airs. That, and you may actually like the music. Really. That’s all we’re sayin’. We give it two Idol stars.
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