Undiscovered: reviews

What the critics say average 3.6 from 21 outlets

• 6.3 New York PostKyle Smith It isn't a really good movie, but there's real talent in it.
• 6.3 The Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea An enjoyably cheesy teen melodrama with a touch of indie edge.
• 5.0 The Boston GlobeWesley Morris It doesn't belong at a megaplex. It should be playing on a Clear Channel station.
• 5.0 The Globe and MailLiam Lacey The trouble with Undiscovered isn't that it's actively annoying but it's so dramatically listless it seems determined to become Unremembered.
• 5.0 Chicago TribuneRobert K. Elder There is a good movie here, Strait actually sings the songs that stand on their own, and he's appealing, despite the rock movie cliches.
• 4.0 Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust The whole movie could be clipped by about 95 minutes and it would make a swell little video for Simpson's performance of the title cut from the soundtrack. Read
• 4.0 TV GuideKen Fox The music is surprisingly good and there's a skateboarding bulldog that you've just gotta see to believe.
• 4.0 VarietyRobert Koehler As a cautionary drama on the price of fame, Undiscovered could not tread on more exhaustively discovered territory, and the result is a reel-by-reel trail of cliches. Read
• 4.0 Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones It isn't bad enough to be good. Read
• 4.0 L.A. WeeklyMark Olsen Undiscovered is beaten on all counts by TV’s "Entourage" and "Unscripted" in its portrayal of the aspirational lifestyle and its end-of-the-rainbow spoils.
• 3.8 New York Daily NewsJack Mathews On paper, the "rising stars" of Meiert Avis' low-flying romantic comedy Undiscovered are Steven Strait and Pell James, but the real star is Tyson the Skateboarding Dog.
• 3.8 Miami HeraldChristie Lemire Too inert to be titillating, too generic to be engaging.
• 3.0 The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen An entirely dispensable, soapy caricature of a love story that comes complete with a jukebox full of music industry cliches plus Ashlee Simpson's big feature film debut.
• 3.0 New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis Though filled with romantic contrivances and overlong musical numbers, Undiscovered is curiously lifeless. Bland actors portray single-cell characters in a plot scarcely more diverting than Ms. Simpson's reality vehicle, "The Ashlee Simpson Show." Read
• 3.0 The Village VoiceNona Willis-Aronowitz A PG-13 dramedy set in L.A. about some attractive, way-too-earnest aspiring stars has the potential to be a delectable good-bad favorite, but Undiscovered is nowhere near the guilty pleasure it could have been. Read
• 3.0 The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin The vapid teen talent show Undiscovered turns on a plot point so moronic that even the most dedicated bad-movie buffs have cause to stay away. Read
• 2.5 Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill White Undiscovered promotes one of the stupidest visions of the entertainment industry since "American Idol" opened the celebrity gateway to the dregs of the karaoke generation.
• 2.5 San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub The movie plays more like a WB network teen drama than something audiences should be expected to pay to see.
• 2.5 Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman As Brier's comrade-in-lip-gloss, Ashlee Simpson, dressed to look like a teenybop girl version of Crispin Glover in "River's Edge," is the real deal , in fake cred.
• 1.1 The Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones Some things are best left undiscovered.
• 0.0 The Washington PostAnn Hornaday Indeed, I'd say Undiscovered belongs on the WB, but that would be gravely unfair to the channel, which looks like the BBC in comparison. Read