Nicole
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
tapio_hietamaki
Okay so this show was a cancelled supernatural teen drama that was a bit darker in tone. Recommended for fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and campy horror movies. Don't expect a lot of fancy special effects.The story is about a pretty blonde called Christina who has a symbol representing the number 666 engraved in her eye and who seems to have a power that causes bad things to happen around her. Yes, she's the daughter of the Devil, no surprises there.The show is set in a small coastal town called 'Point Pleasant' and mostly focuses on the relationships of the teen characters. If you liked the show and are looking for something similar, I recommend you watch The CW's 'The Secret Circle'.
SnoopyStyle
Jesse Parker (Sam Page) rescues a mysterious girl during a storm in the beach community of Point Pleasant, New Jersey. The girl is Christina Nickson (Elisabeth Harnois) with supernatural powers who is born to The Dark One and an innocent woman. Christina is uncertain of her origins and is searching for her mother. Judy Kramer (Aubrey Dollar) befriends Christina and her parents (Susan Walters, Richard Burgi) take her in still suffering from the death of their daughter Isabelle. Christina's powers pulls in Jesse and threatens his girlfriend Paula Hargrove (Cameron Richardson). The Dark One's minion Lucas Boyd (Grant Show) arrives in town to watch over Christina.The show starts out with an interesting premise. It reveals way too much too early. Instead of revealing the story little by little, it dumps everything right away and struggles to move on. It also becomes too soapy with too many characters. It needs to settle down to a few core characters in a group around Christina. It also has clashing tones. Sometimes it has the Gothic religious overtones. Then it's beautiful girls in bikinis with teen drama. I also wonder if the show should lessen the adult stories and concentrate on Christina and the teen characters.
anticwarfare
all i can say about this TV series is that my heart breaks when i found out that it was cancelled. so..... fox, pleas bring back Point Pleasant. all of the actors are so talented,all of them, i don't get why fox cancelled the show, maybe not many people tuned in to the program when it was on because they don't know that program and its new and fox did not give any chance for the show to gain some popularities, already after 1 year of its premier release, the show has gain quite a lot of fans worldwide judging from votes on this websites and the comments. so i am very sad that this TV series is cancelled. fox, please bring it back. FOX BRING BACK POINT PLEASANT!!!!!!!!
liquidcelluloid-1
Network: Fox; Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Teen, Guilty Pleasure; Content Rating: TV-14 (violence, language, frightening imagery, strong sexual content); Available: DVD; Perspective: Contemporary (star range: 1 - 4);Seasons Reviewed: Complete Series (1 season)One day, off the coast of the sleepy north eastern beach community Point Pleasant, a beautiful, blonde teenage girl named Christina is dumped in the ocean and washes up on shore where she is promptly taken in by the mired-in-tragedy Kramer family – father Ben (Richard Burgi, "24"), mother Meg (Susan Walters, "Seinfeld") and Christina's adopted sister Judy (Aubrey Dollar, "Dawson's Creek"). Christina (Elizabeth Harnois), learns that she has powers to make bad things happen to those who anger her and struggles to keep it under control. Meanwhile a young priest, Father Tomas (Marcus Coloma), has ideas about who she is and a mysterious man, Boyd (Grant Show, with the charismatic bad guy role down to a T), comes to town, manipulating the residents. The apocalypse is coming, Point Pleasant is Christina's training ground and three local families have a role to play in it. Legend has it that Fox canceled the original, far more promising "Tru Calling" to put "Point Pleasant" in its spot without first taking "Pleasant" out for a test drive with the viewers. They thought that creator Marti Noxon's Gothic teen drama, with its beach setting and bathing-suit clad teens, was a good match with "The O.C.". And yes, for long stretches of "Pleasant" you might as well be watching "The O.C." or "General Hospital" with all the soap opera moments and pointless tangential stories that are thrown in here. Noxon doesn't seem to think that a story about the Antichrist and impending apocalypse is strong enough to fill an hour so Dina Myer is there as the washed-up high school babe trying to steal Ben away from his possibly insane wife and Cameron Richardson is vowing revenge for Christina stealing her boyfriend, Jesse. But I'm getting ahead of myself. "Pleasant" takes a frustratingly long time to finally articulate itself. The characters talk in half sentences in an artificial effort to stretch out the story. The word "devil" isn't uttered until 6 or 7 episodes in and when such revelations are made, the audience is already way ahead of it. Christina has "the mark" on her eye, which is designed like a Bio-Hazard symbol. "We all have a role to play in this", says Jesse's religious-minded mother. That perfectly describes the characters in "Pleasant" and the show's biggest problem. My philosophy is that characters are even more important than an intriguing story. We will follow just about any story if we love the characters first, but a cleverly unfolded story means nothing if it isn't happening to people we care about. "Pleasant's" characters are not free-standing. They are simply playing roles. One-dimensional wheels to spout stiff expository dialog and move the story forward. Now, the premise is deceptively intriguing. While the idea of a demon child appearing in the form of a beautiful girl is not necessarily new, I like that "Pleasant" centers around a main character that we are not sure will end up being a force of good or evil. But the price of this mystery is that we are kept at arms length from our most interesting character. It deserves to be said that the show is very well made. It looks good and resists the expected MTV editing style. The visual effects are finely woven in - like a bit where Christina makes Ben attack someone with a tire iron from a closed trunk. Danny Elfman can add this theme to his catalog of catchy scores. It is easily the best part of the series, where the in-show music by Robert Duncan reverts back to a familiar Stephen King TV-movie score. It is junk horror. As the show goes on, the teens get off the beach, put their clothes on and the Gothic elements begin to take the show to its rousing finale. It also gets a quirky streak. Two teenage girls tie up a demon with a bunch of belts, Ben gets a mysterious tape that he destroys over and over and Boyd's scheming ex-girlfriend is brought back from the dead only to be handcuffed to a chair in his house. Before it is over Harnois finally gets a chance to shed the whiny girl character, she's been trapped behind up until then, and wear the hat of pure evil. She shows she is able to carry the show, has a blast doing it and it is only then when "Pleasant" becomes completely engaging to watch. For what its worth, the show pulls out all the stops in the end. "Let the War Commence", the finale boisterous hour and its set-up, takes a wild "Beetlejuice" turn, all the strands come together nicely, the battle between good and evil is waged and the personal loss of a child by the Kramer family is paid off in a macabre joke. By the end of the first season the show has written itself into a corner. Characters are left open ended, to fight again, but Christina's journey in Point Pleasant seems to be over. Despite the last second stunts that keep the show from putting us to sleep, I can't imagine where it would go from here. * ½ / 4
