Elaine "Ellie" Harrison has just moved from Minnesota to Annapolis, Maryland while her parents take a year-long sabbatical to continue their medieval studies in nearby Washington D.C. Her new high school, Avalon High, seems like a typical high school with the stereotypical students: Lance the jock, Jennifer the cheerleader, Marco, the bad boy/desperado, and Will, the senior class president, quarterback, and all around good guy. But not everyone at Avalon High is who they appear to be, not even Ellie herself. Eventually, it becomes apparent that Avalon High is a situation where the ancient Arthurian legend is repeating itself.
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OK, if you watched the movie without reading the book you might like this movie. But, I read the novel and it was really good. There is so many things wrong with this movie it is not faithful to the book and it changes so many characters counter-parts to the King Arthur reincarnation thing. There was no chemistry between the two leads like there was in the book. The girl's name in the movie is Allie but in the book it is Ellie so that made me really upset. But, if you read the book and haven't seen this movie please don't watch this! It will make you angry!
ever since High School Musical came out on Disney Channel, Disney has been trying for many years to make anything close to it. but i have to say, this movie was surprisingly good compared to what has been attempted before. other movies have been no more than hectic clichés and very sad, cheesy story lines. This one, not only being a very different story line, did not contain cheesy or bad acting or story line. i thoroughly enjoyed this one and although it didn't come close to HSM, it was very well done :) a message to other reviewers, please, if you don't like a movie, by all means, share your thoughts and feelings but in a civilized way. sometimes some of you can be to harsh. its not wrong to dislike something, but just try be a little more polite when stating what is wrong with it :) thanks :)
For a Disney Channel movie, I found this one actually good. Allie, the main character, confused me though. She seems rude at parts, but she's supposed to be sweet, right? She IS the protaginist, right? The other nerdy kid (grr, I can't remember his name) also did the same thing. He seemed rude at some parts, and okay at others.Anyways, I applaud Disney for making the popular kids actually nice, unlike the stereotyped Hollywood ones. They're not rude, they're not mean, yadda yadda yadda. They actually introduce themselves to the new girl and act nice to her.I can't get them for originality though because it was based off a book. The plot line was good, although it's a bit clichéd. A "chosen one" supposed to save everyone.It was also very predictable. I knew who Arthur, Mordred, and everyone else was. It had its twists, though.I would also like to say Greg Sulken (Sullen?) did a nice job. Anyways, this was a decent movie that's better than others.
I was really disappointed with this movie, I through it wound be more like the book that Meg Cabot wrote but turns out to be totally different, with only a few parts from the book. I didn't like how the ending of the movie turned out to be, with all the characters being totally different, i mean how does the main character (Ellie) become king Arthur's reincarnated when she is in fact meant to be the lady of the lake. also Marco apparently becomes the good guy when hes meant to be the evil half brother, thats what really ruin it for me... it cud have been made a lot better, sorry for the bad review but the book was really good.