AGW Entertainment reporter Lynn B. saw ...

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

After her big hit Freaky Friday, red-haired Lindsay Lohan is back and her "mom" is driving her crazy again. This time it's because "mom" moves Lindsay and family out of the exciting Big Apple to a small town in New Jersey, according to Lindsay's "drama queen" character, the armpit of all culture.

When Lola Cep (Lindsay Lohan) a hip teenager and wanna-be famous actress from Greenwich Village, is forced by her mom to move to the New Jersey suburb of Dellwood, she is devastated! How can she pursue her acting goals in a culture-free dead end school? Also at the new school is uber-popular nasty mean chick Carla Santini (Megan Fox) who always gets the leading roles in all the school plays.

Lola and her new, shy, brainy best gal pal Ella (Alison Pill) are friends because they are both crushin' on members of a band called "Sidarthur" and both are put down by Carla and the pop girl crew. Aiming to oust Carla from her reign, Lola nabs the lead part of Eliza Doolittle in the school production of "Pygmalion" (you'll know it as "My Fair Lady").

Carla retaliates by using her entertainment lawyer dad to score tickets to the sold-out "farewell concert" of "Sidarthur". Lola, who has lied and cried wolf way too much, is heading for trouble when she tells Carla she too has tix to the big concert. Can Lola somehow sneak into the concert and emerge as top teen queen and at the same time meet the band's English lead singer, Stu Wolff (Adam Garcia), whom she has such a huge crush on?

This teen-aimed film is cute and you may have read the novel on which it is based. I found it to be a little too similar to "Lizzie McGuire".. complete with voice-overs by the lead actress and little semi-animated fantasy scenes like the Lizzie show has. Considering the media-sponsored "war" between Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff, this is only going to be more fodder. Also, although Lindsay's character is fun, she seems to be cruising' for a bruisin' as she tells fibs and is way too anxious to be queen of the school. Best friend Ella gets on our nerves being extremely paranoid about doing practically anything without parent permission. This gets old fast. However, Lindsay does a good job on the songs.

Classic comic actress Carol Kane is very funny and silly-looking as an unattractive drama teacher who turns "Pygmalion" into a modern day NYC musical called "Eliza Rocks". Also a lot of fun is Adam Garcia as a drunken rock star who has lost his creative muse. You might remember his from Coyote Ugly and Riding in Cars with Boys starring Drew Barrymore.

In the competition between Lindsay and Hilary, I'd say Lindsay had won with Freaky Friday. This film, however, sneaks a little too far into Hilary's t.v. territory. Not a bad film going experience for younger teens and tween girls but not anything groundbreaking either.

Rated: PG-13

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