Hannah Montana: The Movie – Blu-ray Disc Review

The Movie Itself is what most parents were likely already conned into taking their tween daughters to seeing in theaters and now Miley Cyrus, “Hannah Montana” makes her big-screen debut which gets released to home video. I could seriously go on a rant here for hours (numerous upon numerous paragraphs) about what I despise and hate about this character Disney has created along with the help of Billy Ray Cyrus who seems to me a real scumbag of a father in ways to exploit his daughter to make up for the fact he was and still is, the ultimate definition of a “one hit wonder”. Regardless, like I said, I won’t elaborate too much further how much I dislike this but I will instead explain the film and story (if you could call it that) that is found here in this motion picture.

This is basically a feature film length spin-off of the show “Hannah Montana” which has aired on The Disney Channel since 2006 and become a cult phenomenon amongst mostly 12-year-old girls — a.k.a. “Tweens“. You’d be surprised how much of a market share they make up apparently. So after already trying a feature length concert film with “Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour” which cost an estimated $7,000 to make and ended up grossing 65 million in just the United States alone — you’d only expect them to make a semi-larger budget actual film to try to try that formula again. This film got a 30 million dollar budget reportedly (according to IMDb), which is pretty high in comparison to the 7 grand it reportedly took for the concert film to be made. “Hannah Montana: The Movie” ended up grossing almost 80 million dollars in the United States alone. The formula didn’t prove to work as much but they broke way above even with almost 50 million dollar profit.

Now regarding the film itself and it’s “plot”. The plot here is very simple and actually seems to reflect Miley Cyrus‘ real life — to a degree, what little I know about it. She’s basically playing herself Miley Stewart (Cyrus) but just like on (I’m guessing) the television show, “Hannah Montana” is her rock star alter-ego. The problem comes when her father, Billy Ray Cyrus (playing himself pretty much with a different last name and minus the mullet), decides that she needs to get back to her roots in the family’s home state of Tennessee. He manages to sabotage her private jet to land in the city of the family’s Tennessee farm instead of New York. Miley changes before she exits the plane into her “Hannah Montana” wig and get up only to discover she’s surrounded by miles and miles of countryside. She refuses to accept her dad’s ultimatum to learn to respect her roots and walks off on her on only to discover that her old horse is sitting in a pasture and she didn’t even recognize her. While Miley is talking to her horse along comes a boy (a bit older than her) on a horse who claims he’s the family’s hired hand in the barn and offers to take the horse back. So it’s pretty obvious that some romance is going to spark here and we’re going to have ourselves a Disney style “hoedown” with obviously lots of musical performances by Miley and “Hannah Montana” as well as some guest appearances by up and coming Disney music artists and such. The cameos include Taylor Swift, Rascal Flatts and Vanessa Williams. more story >>