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Avg. Critic Score: 29 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
14 Iffy for 14+
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  • 63
    New York Post |

    It isn't a really good movie, but there's real talent in it. Read full review

  • 63
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    An enjoyably cheesy teen melodrama with a touch of indie edge. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    It doesn't belong at a megaplex. It should be playing on a Clear Channel station. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Tribune | Robert K. Elder

    There is a good movie here--Strait actually sings the songs that stand on their own, and he's appealing, despite the rock movie cliches. Read full review

  • 50
    The Globe and Mail (Toronto) | Liam Lacey

    The trouble with Undiscovered isn't that it's actively annoying but it's so dramatically listless it seems determined to become Unremembered. Read full review

  • 38
    Miami Herald |

    Too inert to be titillating, too generic to be engaging. Read full review

  • 38
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    On paper, the "rising stars" of Meiert Avis' low-flying romantic comedy Undiscovered are Steven Strait and Pell James, but the real star is Tyson the Skateboarding Dog. Read full review

  • 30
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    An entirely dispensable, soapy caricature of a love story that comes complete with a jukebox full of music industry cliches plus Ashlee Simpson's big feature film debut. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Hartlaub

    The movie plays more like a WB network teen drama than something audiences should be expected to pay to see. Read full review

  • 25
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    As Brier's comrade-in-lip-gloss, Ashlee Simpson, dressed to look like a teenybop girl version of Crispin Glover in "River's Edge," is the real deal -- in fake cred. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 14+ Incoherent story of young artists.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that the story is set in an L.A. music "scene," which means that characters drink, do drugs, and smoke. Characters seek fame, behave badly, cheat on each other, and fight briefly hand-to-hand; one girl is paid to seduce a young man. They use brief obnoxious language ("hard-on," "sucks", "screw"), argue, kiss, cuddle, and show romantic yearning, in handheld close-up (if you're averse to mobile framing, this film is not for you). One brief fight. The rock star phenom appears shirtless and sweaty on stage. Two agents discuss and then consume horse tranquilizers in a bar. Women wear revealing clothing, one young man appears in bed with two barely clad women.
  • Families can talk about the film's portrayals of manipulative show biz people. Even the heroine -- a model and wannabe actor -- seems unable to be honest with herself, her friends, and her boyfriend. Among the movie's quite unanswerable questions: why does Brier set up Luke to be a rock star when she so dislikes rock stars? Why does Clea go along with this scheme, when she knows Luke doesn't want that life? How does the movie set up the young characters as naïve and older characters as cynical and opportunistic?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Everyone is deceptive, selfish, and blissful as such.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: Mild fisticuffs.
  • sex false3 Sexy stuff: Characters kiss, cuddle, and yearn in close-up. The rock star phenom appears shirtless and sweaty on stage. Women wear revealing clothing, Euan appears in bed, shirtless, with two barely clad women.
  • language false3 Language: Obnoxious more than consistently offensive.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Music industry is a theme/setting; magazines, websites, and other forms of advertising appear frequently.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Characters smoke, drink, and do drugs, including the prominent discussion and downing of a horse tranquilizer in a bar.
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