Hannah Montana: The Movie � Blu-ray Disc Review

The Movie Itself is what most parents were likely already conned into taking their tween daughters to seeing in theaters and now Miley Cyrus, �Hannah Montana� makes her big-screen debut which gets released to home video. I could seriously go on a rant here for hours (numerous upon numerous paragraphs) about what I despise and hate about this character Disney has created along with the help of Billy Ray Cyrus who seems to me a real scumbag of a father in ways to exploit his daughter to make up for the fact he was and still is, the ultimate definition of a �one hit wonder�. Regardless, like I said, I won�t elaborate too much further how much I dislike this but I will instead explain the film and story (if you could call it that) that is found here in this motion picture.

This is basically a feature film length spin-off of the show �Hannah Montana� which has aired on The Disney Channel since 2006 and become a cult phenomenon amongst mostly 12-year-old girls � a.k.a. �Tweens�. You�d be surprised how much of a market share they make up apparently. So after already trying a feature length concert film with �Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour� which cost an estimated $7,000 to make and ended up grossing 65 million in just the United States alone � you�d only expect them to make a semi-larger budget actual film to try to try that formula again. This film got a 30 million dollar budget reportedly (according to IMDb), which is pretty high in comparison to the 7 grand it reportedly took for the concert film to be made. �Hannah Montana: The Movie� ended up grossing almost 80 million dollars in the United States alone. The formula didn�t prove to work as much but they broke way above even with almost 50 million dollar profit.

Now regarding the film itself and it�s �plot�. The plot here is very simple and actually seems to reflect Miley Cyrus� real life � to a degree, what little I know about it. She�s basically playing herself Miley Stewart (Cyrus) but just like on (I�m guessing) the television show, �Hannah Montana� is her rock star alter-ego. The problem comes when her father, Billy Ray Cyrus (playing himself pretty much with a different last name and minus the mullet), decides that she needs to get back to her roots in the family�s home state of Tennessee. He manages to sabotage her private jet to land in the city of the family�s Tennessee farm instead of New York. Miley changes before she exits the plane into her �Hannah Montana� wig and get up only to discover she�s surrounded by miles and miles of countryside. She refuses to accept her dad�s ultimatum to learn to respect her roots and walks off on her on only to discover that her old horse is sitting in a pasture and she didn�t even recognize her. While Miley is talking to her horse along comes a boy (a bit older than her) on a horse who claims he�s the family�s hired hand in the barn and offers to take the horse back. So it�s pretty obvious that some romance is going to spark here and we�re going to have ourselves a Disney style �hoedown� with obviously lots of musical performances by Miley and �Hannah Montana� as well as some guest appearances by up and coming Disney music artists and such. The cameos include Taylor Swift, Rascal Flatts and Vanessa Williams. more story >>