Okay, "Hannah Montana" may not be original, innovative or flawless, but on it's own merits, it's a highly entertaining and watchable show.
It's easy to understand the big hatred for "Hannah Montana"; a show about a teenage girl taking on a blonde wig and becoming a teen pop sensation. When the show came in 2006, I couldn't care less about the show or Miley Cyrus, for that matter. But three months ago, something happened and I randomly began to watch that show every time I had the possibility and now I'm a fan. I shall confess that.
The characters is what's makes this show. The character of Miley aren't flawless, but still a likable and feisty girl. But the best characters are with no doubt Mitchell Musso as Oliver and Jason Earles as Jackson. They're two wonderfully, charismatic guys that provides the show's comedy. Emily Osment as Lilly is funny, Billy Ray Cyrus provides warmth and kindness as Robby Ray and Morgan York is funny and eccentric as Sarah. Less successful are Moises Arias as Rico and Frances Callier as Roxy, but they still provides the show in their own merits.
Another good thing is that the show doesn't rely entirely on cliché's. "Hannah Montana" shall forever be compared to other teen shows, mostly to "Lizzie McGuire" (a girl who has a dorky guy and a tomboy girl as friends and has a feud with a popular girl in her class and a teasing sibling), but Miley's friends are more funnier, Jackson is actually older than Miley and still dorky and Miley isn't picked by Amber and Ashley in every single episode (at least for all I know, she didn't used to be childhood friends her enemies). We're also allowed to see how Miley deals with her pop star life, hearing some jokes about celebrities and such, although one most wonder how one plausibly would manage to parallel a life as a pop star and a average girl at the same time.
But here comes the bad things: Although there are some funny jokes and gags in the show, there are many jokes which are obviously aimed at the kids and sometimes the writing is so bad that one should think the writers suffered from a terrible insomnia.
Second is the show's predictability: Often the episodes are about Miley making a selfish mistake (which often including lying to her friends and family) and correcting the mistake during the end of the episode. I know that an episode depends on a situation, but one should think that Miley should have learned her lesson, but she still makes the same mistakes in several episodes.
Those mentioned flaws prevents the show to reach it's full potential, but besides that, I still think "Hannah Montana" it's a entertaining and engaging show. Although a better script-play would be nice, but which show is perfect after all? Now we have to see how long the "Hannah" popularity will last
It's easy to understand the big hatred for "Hannah Montana"; a show about a teenage girl taking on a blonde wig and becoming a teen pop sensation. When the show came in 2006, I couldn't care less about the show or Miley Cyrus, for that matter. But three months ago, something happened and I randomly began to watch that show every time I had the possibility and now I'm a fan. I shall confess that.
The characters is what's makes this show. The character of Miley aren't flawless, but still a likable and feisty girl. But the best characters are with no doubt Mitchell Musso as Oliver and Jason Earles as Jackson. They're two wonderfully, charismatic guys that provides the show's comedy. Emily Osment as Lilly is funny, Billy Ray Cyrus provides warmth and kindness as Robby Ray and Morgan York is funny and eccentric as Sarah. Less successful are Moises Arias as Rico and Frances Callier as Roxy, but they still provides the show in their own merits.
Another good thing is that the show doesn't rely entirely on cliché's. "Hannah Montana" shall forever be compared to other teen shows, mostly to "Lizzie McGuire" (a girl who has a dorky guy and a tomboy girl as friends and has a feud with a popular girl in her class and a teasing sibling), but Miley's friends are more funnier, Jackson is actually older than Miley and still dorky and Miley isn't picked by Amber and Ashley in every single episode (at least for all I know, she didn't used to be childhood friends her enemies). We're also allowed to see how Miley deals with her pop star life, hearing some jokes about celebrities and such, although one most wonder how one plausibly would manage to parallel a life as a pop star and a average girl at the same time.
But here comes the bad things: Although there are some funny jokes and gags in the show, there are many jokes which are obviously aimed at the kids and sometimes the writing is so bad that one should think the writers suffered from a terrible insomnia.
Second is the show's predictability: Often the episodes are about Miley making a selfish mistake (which often including lying to her friends and family) and correcting the mistake during the end of the episode. I know that an episode depends on a situation, but one should think that Miley should have learned her lesson, but she still makes the same mistakes in several episodes.
Those mentioned flaws prevents the show to reach it's full potential, but besides that, I still think "Hannah Montana" it's a entertaining and engaging show. Although a better script-play would be nice, but which show is perfect after all? Now we have to see how long the "Hannah" popularity will last