Teen Movies & Movie Stars

After finishing Up my third of the four Pixar animation movies included in the Top 10 movies this decade. I am still impressed with the incredible animation. Not only is the animation amazing but the story lines are funny, catch your attention, and keep you watching. Up has an exciting twist that reels you in to see what’s happening.

Besides Pixar movies which are favorites of people of all ages, movies that are popular with teenagers are ones like John Tucker Must Die, Mean Girls, She’s The Man and Fired Up. These movies all encompass different parts of an exaggerated teenage lifestyle. John Tucker Must Die is about John Tucker who is the “man of the school”. He is a sports legend, with great looks and an abundance of friends. Mean Girls is about a clique of three “mean” girls who rule. What they wear is what is “in”. That’s how the school is divided. So, there is an in crowd, and then there’s everyone else. She’s the Man is more down my alley because it’s about a girl (played by Amanda Bynes) who will do anything it takes to play soccer. At her school, the girls’ team gets cut because there’s not enough funding, and they don’t let the girls play with the boys. So, she dresses up like a boy and goes to her brother’s school so she can play the sport. Her brother, meanwhile, goes to Europe to play with his band in a concert and Viola (Amanda Bynes) pretends she’s him. This shows how dreams are most important to every teenager. Lastly, Fired Up is about two guys who go to a girls cheerleading camp, just like every teenage guy wishes he could. Most teens love movies that relate to what they are going through because that’s what they’re interested in instead of old movies about the wars or unrealistic things that could never happen. They want to know what could happen, and what’s possible. It sometimes even gives them hope for the future.

Two of my good friends this past Thursday got the chance to meet one of the stars from Twilight, and the sequel New Moon. His name is Kellan Lutz and he plays Emmett who is a vampire. My friends said he was kind of funny and how he told them before he was casted in the movie; his younger sister read all the Twilight series (a series of books that the movies are based on by Stephanie Meyer) and was obsessed with this vampire prince charming Edward Cullen. Kellan Lutz plays Emmett, the main character’s brother, so that must have been a pretty cool experience for Kellan’s younger sister who got to see her brother playing up close and personal with this Edward Cullen character. Twilight, the first book in the series, is about a girl Bella Swan (played by Kristen Stewart) who has two boys vying for her attention. These boys are a vampire named Edward Cullen and a werewolf named Jacob Black. Of course, both boys going after Bella are mortal enemies and have been for centuries. In Twilight, Bella goes for Edward, the mysterious vampire who tries to do anything in his power to figure out everything about Bella. But, since I read the books, I know that in this upcoming movie New Moon, Edward leaves for a while and Bella and Jacob get close. The trials and tribulations of love in these movies are absolutely enthralling and makes you keep reading, or in this case keep watching!

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