This is the real reason why native Hawaiians don't want mainland U. S. citizens coming to the islands. Just watch this and you'll see what I mean.
To be honest, this is quite the stain on the legacy of an otherwise iconic family series, and a really unfortunate way to wrap it all up. Of course, it doesn't really matter because most will likely forget about this, I mean I didn't even know it existed until Disney+ recommended it to me as I began watching the series.
While Season 1 and 2 of the series were mostly pure gold, the 3rd and final season was a lot more flimsy. It's funny to me because Beans is the only thing you really hear people reference at this point in time, but when they start making Beans a major character is right when the show starts to degrade in quality. It seemed to me like Season 3 was trying too hard to be zany and more "out-there" with the plots, which in the end really lost focus on what made the show great, and that was the actual chemistry and mechanics between the family and their close friends, and classmates. The episodes that focused on school were definitely the strongest ones, and it starts to veer from that in Season 3. The movie, however, veers WAY off the road, completely losing the majority of all the elements that made Even Stevens great, and even manages to have 95% of its jokes feel cheap, unimaginative, and most unfortunately, not funny at all. Majority of the dialogue and moments throughout the entire movie fall flat.
The cast do their best but it's mostly the horrendous writing that makes this movie barely watchable. Tim Meadows is always a welcome addition to any cast, and brings this movie its strongest moments, which is...maybe two of them. There's a plot twist about halfway through that was pretty much the only thing I found any real value in through this entire film, but it wasn't enough to redeem the low quality of the movie - it kind of falls right back into its own cesspool of badness immediately.
There are some fun over-the-top moments towards the very end of the film that fans of movies like Spy Kids 2 might enjoy, but otherwise there's really not much here I can point anyone towards. It's quite the stinker. The series is totally worth watching, especially Season 1 and 2, but I would avoid the movie like the plague. I'm a big Shia LaBeouf fan and this was never on my radar when it was on TV, so I wanted to consume, see where it all began for my guy. Gonna check out his breakthrough drama features that followed after this, soon....
To be honest, this is quite the stain on the legacy of an otherwise iconic family series, and a really unfortunate way to wrap it all up. Of course, it doesn't really matter because most will likely forget about this, I mean I didn't even know it existed until Disney+ recommended it to me as I began watching the series.
While Season 1 and 2 of the series were mostly pure gold, the 3rd and final season was a lot more flimsy. It's funny to me because Beans is the only thing you really hear people reference at this point in time, but when they start making Beans a major character is right when the show starts to degrade in quality. It seemed to me like Season 3 was trying too hard to be zany and more "out-there" with the plots, which in the end really lost focus on what made the show great, and that was the actual chemistry and mechanics between the family and their close friends, and classmates. The episodes that focused on school were definitely the strongest ones, and it starts to veer from that in Season 3. The movie, however, veers WAY off the road, completely losing the majority of all the elements that made Even Stevens great, and even manages to have 95% of its jokes feel cheap, unimaginative, and most unfortunately, not funny at all. Majority of the dialogue and moments throughout the entire movie fall flat.
The cast do their best but it's mostly the horrendous writing that makes this movie barely watchable. Tim Meadows is always a welcome addition to any cast, and brings this movie its strongest moments, which is...maybe two of them. There's a plot twist about halfway through that was pretty much the only thing I found any real value in through this entire film, but it wasn't enough to redeem the low quality of the movie - it kind of falls right back into its own cesspool of badness immediately.
There are some fun over-the-top moments towards the very end of the film that fans of movies like Spy Kids 2 might enjoy, but otherwise there's really not much here I can point anyone towards. It's quite the stinker. The series is totally worth watching, especially Season 1 and 2, but I would avoid the movie like the plague. I'm a big Shia LaBeouf fan and this was never on my radar when it was on TV, so I wanted to consume, see where it all began for my guy. Gonna check out his breakthrough drama features that followed after this, soon....