Samantha (Leah Pipes) is struggling to make it with her band. The problem is that she's not a good lead performer. Her best friend Roscoe (Raviv Ullman) uses his father's holographic technology to 'Weird Science' a lead performer, Loretta Modern (Spencer Redford). The hologram can only exist indoors and they have to keep it a secret. They become a hit but Sam isn't happy with the new addition.It's not that horrible for a Disney TV movie but that's grading on a curve. It's on the level of some of the other musical Disney TV movies. Spencer Redford is a bit stiff considering she is suppose to be this magnetic performer. Her character is too silly and too stiff. She's trying to be computerish. I'm also not loving the music although it's alright for teen girl rock. I have problems with the musical performances, Spencer Redford, and her character. Sam's bitterness is not endearing although she is a compelling character. Also the internet is made to be way too silly. To its credit, the movie does try to let Loretta and Sam grow as characters.

"You get to be the dreamer, all I'll ever be is the dream" says Loretta Modern (Spencer Redford) wistfully in the climatic scene of what is perhaps the most lyrical and intellectually ambitious film Disney has ever made. Lurking beneath its technological showcase and tame teen angst storyline, "Pixel Perfect" (2004) contains a rather deep allegorical take on an existential theme. It explores the isolation of someone who gradually realizes that they do not belong in the world. It is allegorical because Loretta really does not belong, she is a holographic rock star created by Roscoe ("Phil of the Future's" Ricky Ullman) through an experimental process his father's has developed. His friend Samantha's band, the Zettabytes, needs a front man (technically a front woman as this is an all-girl group) and Loretta has been assembled from a variety of sources to meet this need. This proves a mixed blessing to Samantha as she quickly becomes extremely jealous of Loretta's popularity and the attention she is getting from her creator. Understandable since Loretta was designed to transcend Samantha's limitations."Tron" (1982) and "Electric Dreams" (1984) are the film's obvious predecessors, and there is even a little bit of HAL from "2001 A Space Odyssey". But what appears to have started it all was the 1967 Star Trek television episode "Metamorphosis" in which a strange energy cloud called "The Companion" merges with the dying Commissioner Hedford (Elinor Donahue) to become human. There are several nice "Tron" - like special effects excursions into the world of bits and bytes; as well as a scene inside Samantha's mind. Like Edgar and HAL, Loretta soon begins to transcend her basic programming and develop human emotions.But Loretta goes somewhere else, into the world of films like "Carnival of Souls" (1962) and "The Incredible Shrinking Man". Taking on the concepts of human alienation, loss of identity, and separation from society. The film's best song "Notice Me" goes to this theme. As it was for a shrinking Scott Carey ("The Incredible Shrinking Man"), for Loretta getting to the outside (getting to feel the rain) is symbolic of no longer being constrained by limitations.The ending was a little too vague and pulls its punches. But what actually occurs is that Loretta gives up her identity to save Samantha. Loretta must subordinate herself to merge with and heal Samantha. The new Samantha appears unchanged but has taken on a lot of what was Loretta. The allegorical resolution is the realization that loss of identity is freedom, that you are not alone because you are a part of something bigger-and this is what Loretta discovers she wants more than anything else-despite being programmed to simply be a performer. Redford's take on Loretta may remind you of the character Tamara Hope played in "Stepsister from the Planet Weird" (2000). Until I checked out the two casts I thought it was the same actress. Things tend to bog down when Loretta is not in a scene. Girls appear to be the primary target audience of this film although boys and adults with active brain cells who are willing slow down long enough to examine its message should be entertained as well.Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

It's a Disney Channel movie. So it's not going to win any Oscars, or make use of realistic science, and it's quite predictable. But it's fun, and sweet.Loretta is quite annoying in places, but I think that was the point. However the dubbing when the girls are singing is very unconvincing, those scenes can be painful to watch I'm afraid. But I loved the sequence near the end in the rain.A great movie to watch if you can suspend your disbelief enough and have some time to kill and it appears on TV, but I wouldn't hunt it down or anything.

Perhaps if I was eight, I'd enjoy this movie. Heck, I didn't even know about it until I was channel-flipping and came upon it accidentally. For a Disney movie, I have to admit it was decent, but a hologram is simply an image, nothing more, no matter how much Disney tries to mislead children in thinking that it is a program with feelings. The singing wasn't all that great. In fact, it was obvious the actors were lip-singing, and the acting...was not all that great. It seems to me to have been a copycat Simone. But don't take MY word for it, go see Simone and then watch Pixel Perfect and see the similarities yourself. Overall, this movie is a 1/10 for anyone with a mind, however, if I was braindead I'd give it a 5/10. Definitely not a movie I'd want to see more than once.