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Thought the plot, the characters, the setting, and especially the music fit in every way the tunes, especially "Smart In A Stupid Way" and "Boomerang". Undiscovered has a musician's feel that non-musician's could easily miss. Life of musicians is hectic enough, as in all areas of performing arts. Add to that formula an attempt at true romance while trying to pull it all off with an artist's feel, even by actors playing musicians, and that's quite a feat. This movie was obviously not meant to be some chromed rich kid glamor story about rock musicians. It's a picture of real life in the quest for fame and musical discovery, which in final leans more to the side of musical creation than performing. Thus its setting has that raw quality of down to earth smelly club carpet intermixed with a glamor chase, eventually resulting in neither, but instead a down home one on one relationship with one's music and one's lover. The soundtrack is excellent, the pop song composition is rich, and the musical performers are 'tight'. Some of the AR record scouts are slimy, which is not totally accurate in the real world, but enough to get the point across in the movie that songwriting carries many more benefits than performing.

Although not the most sophisticated movie. Storyline is cute and Steven Strait, Pell James and Ashlee Simpson were pretty good. Some line didn't make sense and the sceen where he's acting like a rock star on stage not even noticing the groupie and Josie fighting over him was a little ridiculous and tacky. It may not be up to par with other really good romantic movies such as Notting Hill, Sleepless in Seattle, Pride and Prejudice, The Princess Bride, Pretty woman, When harry met sally.(I can add a lot more but I be sitting here for a good solid hour or so)Aside from all those movies it still is cute feel good (if you're a sap like me) movie. PS. The soundtrack's awesome too.

The fact that Ashlee Simpson was booed off the stage at last years Orange Bowl should have provided plenty of evidence as to her lack of singing talent and abilities . Now we have Undiscovered as proof that she cannot act either . As Clea she is without a doubt clueless on what an actual actor does. Inhabit the role and make it your own not simply mug for the camera. This is another effort from a music vid director Meiert Avis. Where do these people get their names ? Of course the script is hideous and story threads disappear at an alarming rate . Dropping a glove in a train station one of the protagonists drops the other one in a moment of foreshadowing that 'real' ;ove will develop with the mystery man . What a joke ! It won't be long before the Simpson girls are back living in their daddies double wide trailer out in hicks ville .

"Undiscovered" tells the story of an up and coming musician who happens to run into a model once in New York then two years later after they have both separately moved to L.A. The two have a loose relationship and the film is more detached than anything, be it bad acting or bad writing I felt I did not get to know the characters true feelings. I felt that the film had a good story but was just not portrayed the way I think it should have been. These characters should have had tons of emotions but it just never came. It seemed that they were not moving and feeling the way they should have been,especially with the reoccurring scenes where the two who,I was supposed to be convinced, where in love coming together again and again. The film was not totally what I expected it to be and I believe that it could have been better taken advantage of by use of character emotions and camera movements at the right time.

OK, so yeah the movie was bad, for a lot of reasons----quick camera shots, horrid focus and framing issues, poor editing amongst many other failures. And the acting was pretty bad, but not from Ashlee Simpson believe it or not---she didn't do so bad. I thought Pell was much worse. But Steven Strait---what a beautiful boy!! I was happy to watch the movie just to look at that guy for an hour and a half---He's HOT! And what a voice! I would definitely get the soundtrack to the movie, which I think sounds reminiscent of Lifehouse. I think if this kid gets a little more experience, he's going to blow up pretty big...we'll see. As cute as Steven is, I think this movie is definitely a rental. Just being honest.

Undiscovered was a typical romance drama/coming-of-age film for 20-something's with no backbone or intrigue. I watched it for Shannyn Sossamon because she's played these great characters in the past with very little going on in their lives, but in this film, she's this Brazilian model-type who seems very much in the wrong film (the character does anyways). I don't know what US Weekly was smoking when they proclaimed on the back of the DVD "Ashlee Simpson shines as a punky inspiring singer-actress." Simpson was basically playing a girl with no real depth and a horrible nasal voice. I do however believe in what the New York Post said about Pell James, that "(she) is adorable and winsome, she's a romantic star in the making." She might be a not-so-well-known actress, but she was a well cast lead girl for this film. But the main "dude," Steven Strait, is just a big baby with too much of his heart on his shoulder, and his knack for writing lame songs in the movie just puts the character in the ground. I really only liked a few things about the movie. 1) Carrie Fisher. She hasn't been in a whole lot of films as of late, so it was good to see her as a lead role in the model/actress' career. 2) The chick fight in the Viper Room scene. That's always killer. And 3) The small joke about the main singer guy having arachnophobia (told by his agent at Tantra Records). The rest of the film has been done before by better actors. There was boring music (which consisted of acoustic sets and U2 ripoff songs), a ridiculous back and forth love story which makes you want to turn the DVD off ahead of time, the dude acting like a baby through most of the film because he finds out that his contract was helped out by Brier (the main girl) and it wasn't because of his lame songs, and there was even a ridiculous chant that the Tantra Records' associates go into after deleting this guy from the label. I really didn't get the line when she calls up this musician guy and adds "I know. This is borderline stalking you." Hello? He's been obsessing about you the whole movie, not the other way around. I had to give the film a 3/10. It was shot well, but their was no driving force that kept my attention to the screen without reminding me of how much of a cable TV movie this is. I hope this was just made to give Ashlee Simpson a film career because if the writer really felt depth in this script, I would start to lose hope in the future of film.

We have all seen this movie before in one love story or another. The plot is comfortable not inventive, it is there to hold the movie together. The story was how a pair of strangers get through the first infatuation, false expectations, and get to the point that they can learn who the other person really is. The Music is great, pulls you in and sets the next bit up. I consider Undiscoverede a musical of the MTV variety. Nobody breaks into song in the middle of a conversation, but the music is doing a lot of the storytelling. The supporting cast is doing a lot of the character development / exposition for the main characters. Is this because they are a couple of control freaks or played by bad actors? My bet is on competent actors doing what the story required. Character interaction is where this movie works. The music is where it lives. A sweet movie about a couple of nice kids. The dog was my favorite character. High Fidelity is my favorite movie in this genre.

This movie was incredibly good and I really don't understand why it was not a bigger hit. The fact that Ashley Simpson is in it may have contributed to its downfall, but while we're on that subject: I really don't see what was wrong with her performance. I thought, considering she had no acting experience before this film, she did an awesome job. And I really liked how that director didn't make the film about Ashley Simpson. While she definitely had a crucial part in the film, it was not centered around her. With that said, I could find nothing wrong with this movie and believe me I was looking. I thought there had to be a reason it was such a bomb in the box office, but I could not find a single good reason. This movie was brilliant: the story was sweet and romantic, but not gushy, it was surprisingly believable in its portrayal of struggling performers, the acting was flawless, and the music was out of this world. I even bought the soundtrack I was so impressed. So for the record: this movie was NOT like Crossroads (although I don't think that was such a bad movie either) and I would recommend it to every teenager in the U.S.

Okay, granted, it's not going to win any best acting awards, but the overall premise and plot lines weren't bad. Several of the actors had trouble expressing the emotions, and I felt Brier was hard to relate to, but Steven Strait as Luke Falcon was enjoyable, and probably a realistic portrayal of what happens when you get too fast, too quick. Ashlee Simpson and Kip Pardue were reliable sidekicks to the love story, and provided the laughs in the movie, along side Carrie Fisher. But honestly, it's worth seeing just for rising star Steven Strait. It's hard to believe he's only 19. He was a great actor and singer. The soundtrack alone, preformed mostly by Strait, is thoroughly enjoyable. Overall, it was well written, well acted, and not a waste of an otherwise boring night!

OK lets just sum it up for everyone boy meets girl in corny subway scene then they meet up a couple years later they sleep together then they break up he makes it big time as a singer and he becomes mean (it was shocking NOT) then he becomes nice they meet at the airport and get back together and he decides to become a writer WOW that was sooo lame and boring i left to go to the bathroom and i actually looked for a way to escape lol. o and of course ashlee simpson sings b/c then the movie wouldn't of even made it to theaters. and the main characters name is breyer why didn't they just name her turkey hill or edys. and wat ever moron played Breyer did a terrible job i mean horrid.i clapped when it was over i think i was the loudest in the whole theater.