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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
Trucks
Directed by Richard Gabai
Written by Timothy Barton
Starring Aaron Carter, David Cassidy, Alana Austin
PG • 2005 • 95 minutes
by Deeky Wentworth
Pop singer and teen heartthrob Aaron Carter plays pop singer and teen heartthrob J. D. McQueen. J.D. is forced to attend public high school between world tours. But J.D. isn't a very good student, so he makes a point of quickly befriending the smartest girl at school. She's awkward, shy, and unpopular.
I'm not going to bother with the rest of the plot, because you know enough from the previous paragraph to tell exactly how the story will unfold. The film hits all the required stops, and ends up right were you know it will. This film isn't bad so much as it is completely unremarkable. There is not one original or inspired moment in any of the film's 95 minutes.
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It isn't that Carter's screen debut needed to be an edgy independent film, like, say Harry and Max that explores incest and homosexuality in the teen pop world (that's a horrible film too, by the way), but someone should have steered this kid into something that had at least a little bit of charm. Even cutesy appearances by David Cassidy and Leif Garrett don't help, and are likely wasted on the film's target demographic.
Can Aaron Carter act? No. Can he sing? Not really. So then, what is the point of this film? It seems mostly an excuse to massage Carter's ego. Not more than five minutes pass without someone saying how beautiful he is, how talented he is, without some mob of girls pursuing him or some boy quaking in fear the teen idol will steal his girlfriend.
Despite all this the film wants us to know Carter is just a regular guy. Sure, he makes millions, is adored by girls the world over, owns a couple hundred cars, but deep down, he is just like you or me. Is he really? No, pop stars never are.
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