Bandslam – Movie Review
Bandslam is a film about a high school kid named Will (Gaelan Connell) who’s entire life is about music but has no one to share that passion with. This all changes when he moves to New Jersey and his new high school is crazy about this competition called “Band Slam”, a battle of the bands where the winner receives a record deal. He winds up managing the new band of one of the coolest girls in the school (Aly Michalka) while falling for another girl (Vanessa Hudgens) with hidden musical talents of her own.
The big problem with this film is firmly in it’s marketing. I barely payed any attention when this was released in August. I couldn’t care less. It looked like a High School Musical knock-off and even featured one of the stars of HSM. As a 26 year old I could care less about that kind of stuff. So I wrote this off, as did lots of other people because this made no money, despite Vanessa Hudgens and Aly Michalka who through the internet I’ve learned is in a somewhat popular band Aly & AJ. However bored on a Friday night with nothing better to do I checked it out and was pleasantly surprised.
