Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Noah White Won't say who it was out of respect for their privacy, but a friend of mine went to audition for this atrocity to television. They didn't even let this person audition. They filmed everything up to the top 20 on the same day and made it look real. When everyone comes for the audition, they actually mean they're going to decide who will actually audition. They will randomly tell people they can go just because they look funny and think it would be hilarious to see on TV, and don't let other people go because they look to ordinary or they don't look TV material. Then they let some of the people they chose sing for 5 seconds, and if that 5 seconds doesn't please them they don't get to audition with the judges and move on. This happened with my friend.This is INSULTING. Many artists would feel privileged to have the opportunity to express their paintbrush for the world to see. This "opportunity" was a broken promise, never intending to be fulfilled in the first place.Not to mention, the show just wasn't interesting.

TheBlueHairedLawyer I've never been a really big fan of reality TV; I think it's wrong to turn someone's tragedy into entertainment and a lot of "reality" TV shows are fake these days, anyway. Everything is sugar-coated, no one ever hears the truth and no one seems to get a chance. But with American Idol, everybody gets a chance to show their singing talents (or terrors), and if they aren't good at singing, they're told in a frank way, "hey buddo, you're no good at this." Instead of crushing people's dreams though, they try to be positive. For example, an overweight teen who obviously had low self-esteem went on the show and sang a song. She was told that she wasn't very good at singing but that her makeup skills were great and that she could do really well as a makeup artist.Some of the contestants on this show are fake actors, and you can laugh at them. There was one man from Toronto who sang a song about stalking a woman in her house, it was weird and pretty funny. I'm not saying I really love this show, it has its ups and downs and such, but if I had to be trapped in a room watching reality TV forever, I'd choose this one to be stuck watching, at least it's entertaining and passes the time without getting TOO repetitive.

BlackJack_B American Idol (the brainchild of Brits Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell) has been airing for 12 years or so and despite being nowhere as popular as it used to be, FOX continues to air a new season running 4 months or so and has also spawned a bunch of imitators to boot, including Cowell's X Factor.From having non-singers and people who mostly can't sing without Autotune being judges, to having "contestants" who act like they are on Prozac or some happy drug 24/7, to the "coaching" done off-screen, to the screaming banshees in the audience, to seeing people being given permission to butcher pop songs, to Ryan Seacrest, to the usual rigging of results, etc. this show has done irreparable to both television as it has begat more reality television and music as there's an innate sameness to everybody in pop music. For shame.All American Idol does is make stars out of people and then give them no say in their new line of work at RCA and offer people more Schadenfreude in their life, like they need it. Sound familiar?

petsrpeoplejlr The review I just read was written in 2007. Since then, judges on AI have come and gone. Currently, some people are stating that the show has become about the celebrity judges rather than the contestants. When the show first debuted, few people outside of the music industry knew who Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell were. In 2013, we have four very well- known judges. Some might say that the judges are there for the paycheck, for a break from touring, trying to revive their careers, or have some other questionable motives. I personally think that the quality of singers increases every season. Bad singers are not being put through nearly as often. And while the choice of music might not be the reviewer's cup of tea, some people enjoy hearing music from the past more than listening to what is served up as acceptable music these days. It's all a matter of taste. Even someone like Chris Daughtry can only get into the top ten because so many people in America are voting for reasons other than talent or potential. But in the end, appearing on AI helped his career. The fact that people are exposed to many of the up and coming singers through shows like AI means that the shows are relevant, and will continue to be.