Prom: Not even a bad boy can get this party started

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    By Chris Tookey

    Last updated at 5:06 PM on 3rd June 2011

    Verdict: So prim it makes High School Musical look racy

    Rating: 2 Star Rating

    Prom is a middle-aged Disney executive’s vision of how high school ought to be. It’s efficiently made, wholesome and hopelessly unoriginal.

    Any charm it has is down  to the two leads. Aimee Teegarden has the Olivia Newton-John role of the hard-working, strait-laced girl who is organising the prom, but — despite being the prettiest girl in the school — hasn’t got a date herself. Sob!

    Yawnfest: Unsurprisngly, bad boy Thomas McDonell approaches good girl Aimee Teegarden

    Yawnfest: Unsurprisngly, bad boy Thomas McDonell approaches good girl Aimee Teegarden

    Enter, on a motorbike, bad boy Thomas McDonell (pictured with Ms Teegarden), looking uncannily like a younger, taller Johnny Depp.

     

    I say he’s a bad boy, but he does nothing worse than skip school when he has to look after his younger brother and sneer at the kind of uncool teenagers who attend proms.

    The drama that ensues may just conceivably surprise girls between the ages of nine and 13. But it is so sanitised, it makes High School Musical look edgy.

     

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