Starstruck (2010) is the WORST Disney Channel Movie EVER... I'm angry about it 

When I was like 13 I plagiarized the plot of this movie on Wattpad and gave them different names and it got tons of views and people were begging me to update and I felt so guilty I deleted the story

“She’s not like other girls” “yeah no she’s way worse” I fucking snorted

the main girl is so confusing because she’s clearly meant to be an average relatable girl next door type but they give her the personality and attitude of a mean girl bully. the actress isn’t too bad but they really didn’t care to properly flesh out her character (or any other character in the movie).

I'm guessing they couldn't give Jessica hobbies or much of a personality because they assumed it would interfere with tween/teen girls in their target demographic surgically stitching themselves onto the character to vicariously live out their fantasies of being chosen by the celeb heartthrob of their choice. Which is absolutely underestimating those kids.

This movie depicted a girl getting kidnapped MULTIPLE times and not once did I feel bad for her; she was infuriating (he was too tbh).

this movie had so many fanfic tropes that a lot of preteen girls wanted to emulate in their life with their favorite famous person (1D, justin bieber, whoever) and honestly it’s so funny

an angel loses her wings every time nick mentions an unwashed foreskin 😔💔

I used to love this movie as a kid 😭 it lives up to the Wattpad “I’m not like the other girls” fantasy

I feel like StarStruck was Disney's attempt at turning Sterling Knight into a mainstream pop artist because the Jonas Brothers were starting to get tired of Disney and they needed someone new to be their big Justin Bieber esque pop star that their target audience of teenage and preteen girls would crush on. It just...didn't really work well. 🙃

I would also just like to say... staging a public apology is a really unfair way to pressure someone to accept, because if they don't accept this big grand gesture apology in front of a room full of people they will look bad. Not a cool move. Ask for forgiveness in private and with humility. It doesn't mean anything if someone feels pressured to give it to you.

I think my favorite part of this is Nick calling the sister, "Maggie" the entire time when her name is Sarah.

As someone who was in middle school when this movie was released, the songs from Starstruck are seared into my brain permanently.

Something that REALLY bugs me about this film is when Chris is looking back on all the photos they took together there's a photo of them TAKING a photo - not the selfie that they would have taken with the actual camera, but a screenshot of the scene where they take the photo with a completely different angle to the disposable camera's lens. It annoys me to a frankly irrational degree.

The only thing I remember about this movie was when I was watching Disney channel while the trailer was being showed during a sleepover, I gaslighted my friends into believing Sterling Knight played both the girl and guy in this. I said it took a lot of editing, makeup and effects. I have no idea why I did that.

Christopher Wild’s dreamy eyes stare looks eerily similar to my cat’s blank “I’ve forgotten where I am” stare

I remember when Demi lovato left sonny with a chance, and it just felt like they didn’t know what to do with any of the other kids from ‘so random’

this movie is straight off the main page of wattpad in 2009 and I was obsessed with it.

Petition for an action thriller romance where the older sister freaks out about her sister disappearing outside a club and then realises from the news report that the celeb kidnapped her (because her shuffleboard-playing sister definitely would not leave the club with a guy she doesn't know and apparently detests), and uses her super fan stalker knowledge to track them down because the police aren't interested in a teen girl running away with a celeb heartthrob. All the car switching and ditching the car in the desert is actually intentional as they try to evade the sister, and the taking back the camera was so he could destroy the photos/evidence once he got around to killing her. He picked her because she was so generally unpleasant that he figured no one would miss her, and his real hatred of the press is because they make it very hard to discreetly abduct young girls

Fun fact. The girl actress was 15 during the time of this film and the guy was 21... Bit creepy but that's the reason they never kissed.

“Wow you’re not like other girls” “no yeah she’s way worse” 😂😂

losing my mind everytime he says "christopher knight" and "maggie".

Kids are okay with a nothing burger when we get vicarious wish fulfillment through an empty main character.

Nick you HAVE to do Geek Charming. I was obsessed with that film as a kid and would like to see it taken down a peg.

the only way disney convinced me sterling knight was hot is because i’m a sucker for slow burns and sonny with a chance nailed that… i remember this movie coming out and being disappointed how much of a lame romance between boring people it was

As a broke person in my mid-twenties, I'm appalled at how carelessly they treated the grandma's car by letting strangers drive it and allowing it to fall into a mud pit. The grandma could have at least sold the car to make some money from it!!

Her speech to the media was giving me Caitlin Reilly's "the girl who used to bully you in high school" energy

Finally a movie brave enough to answer the question “what if singin in the rain sucked?”

I was like 9 when this came out & trust me … Disney did their job right - I was obsessed 😂🙏🏼

Alternate title: Nick roasting his patrons for 33 minutes and 44 seconds.

It’s crazy to think that just a couple of years after this movie came out Danielle Campbell (the actress that plays Jessica) would date Louis Tomlinson from One Direction. It’s truly life imitating art!

Maybe the real Clip Breakdown is the friends we made along the way ✨

Fun fact and the only positive thing i know about this movie: One of my closest childhood friends(Anna-Margaret) is who performed “somethin about the sunshine” for the movie. It’s the only almost claim to fame I know.

I remember seeing this film a few times when I was a teen and the most memorable moment for me is when the car sinks because I remember thinking "her grandmother is going to be so angry"

Nick calling the main dude by the wrong name for 90% of the video is amazing. I absolutely loved this movie 😂 It fueled my teenage dream to casually run into my celebrity crush where he’d fall in love with me. (Also that scene where Char literally slams into Ella from Ella Enchanted also fuels this fire🥲)

“But I had a lot of underdeveloped opinions in my 20’s. Unlike nowadays, where I have a lot of opinions that I’ve spent too much time developing and now talking about.” Oh damn! That one hits a little too close for comfort 🤣

I still hear that song in my head sometimes "Starrrrrrstruck camera flashes cover of magazines"

So the girl made the boy fall in love with her through pure negging. Truly a leap forward for gender equality.

GOD I will never forget this movie because my best friend in middle school was OBSESSED with Chad Dylan Cooper's actor and as such I had no choice but to watch this movie smh..

I just love how nick basically rewrites key points on the script that would make the movie waaay much better

I think in earlier years Disney tried to make TV movies that would appeal to kids and parents, but after a while they realized that parents would often put on Disney Channel in the background to entertain the kids and the parents themselves actually wouldn't watch the show/movie that closely, which is how we ended up with a lot of weak plots and flat characters. It's just enough to keep the kids glued to the screen but not meant to actually be good or taken seriously as a film. (I'm just talking about DCOMs, not the ones that hit theaters bc those seem much better in comparison.)

"If you like any [of the songs in Starstruck] comment down below and explain yourself to the court" Nick really got me wheezing there lmao

The Princess Di joke was textbook perfect comedic timing

I wonder if this script started off as a Fanfiction, it's giving me that vibe 🤔

This was the Disney movie that made me realize how terrible Disney movies were

There actually is an all ages queer night club in Portland, Oregon. I used to go there every weekend with my friends. They had drag shows. It's where Jinkx Monsoon got her start performing in drag.

I watched this movie when I was like 12 so I was definitely the target audience but I've always hated it so much, Jessica is so fucking annoying, Christopher is not cute at all (sorry, sterling) and it pisses me off how hard they tried to make us think he is, way too many sonny with a chance actors (a show I found terribly unfunny and couldn't get away from back in the day) just ugh. However I must confess I did like the songs x) and I put up with the movie cuz this is pretty much a self-insert fic of a situation I would've given my kidneys to live with Joe Jonas xD maybe that's why Jessica has no personality besides the whole "I'm not like other girls" she has going on, she's just a placement character

1) I don't know who to blame for this exactly but I am Uncomfortable that while this movie was in production, the lead actress was 14 and Sterling Knight was 20. Please, Disney, don't. It's weird. 2) I only saw this movie, parts of it, a couple of times in rereuns. I wasn't watching that much Disney channel at this point, only really tuning in for my favorite shows like HM and Wizards, and I wasn't clamoring to see the new popstar Chad Dylan Cooper movie with some girl I'd never heard of. But for some reason I always remembered the "best friends since fourth grade" line because it's such specific exposition. I was in fifth grade at the time, and I thought to myself, well, did Stubbs move to Chris's town? Did Chris move to Stubbs's town? All of *my* then-best friends, I had known for years at that point. Most people meet their elementary school best friends earlier, in grades K-to-2, because you're in elementary school for a loooong time and fourth grade is kind of late in the game, if you are not yourself "the new kid." But they never explain it, even while it is stated in detail. It is so odd. Why do they even have to have been friends that long? Looking back on that as an adult, it feels like a harrowing statement about the entertainment industry, that Christopher Wilde has gained such notorious fame and his only best friend is still the same guy he's been hanging out with since he was 9. There are no truly meaningful relationships he's built since? Not even with his shallow starlet girlfriend? Only with some random teenager who is mean to him after he injures her? Food for thought, man.

How dare you, Starstruck is the best movie ever made and should have an Oscar

I WILL NOT stand for this Starstruck slander

I like the soundtrack because of the “feel good” energy and easy lyrics. They’re good songs to belt out with friends on a car trip. Jessica was always annoying to me but I think I liked that she had a sense of autonomy/independence. I think they were trying to make Jessica seem like Alex Russo but they missed several steps. The movie in general is easy to watch (due to its predictability).

I didn't even like this movie when it first came out, and I think that 13-year-olds were probably a target audience. Bad acting, bad script, bad music...bad everything.

Same the movie could have been better instead of making Jessica just rude to Christopher the entire movie maybe they could have been friends before he got famous and then he left her behind then that would explain why she was so against him and had this hatred toward him so

As a kid it's just one of those things you don't think about, you just say "aw cute romance" and move on but as an adult yeah Jessica is constantly angry for no good reason while Chris is just trying to be nice

I'm glad I'm a vegetarian because this Nothingburger looks like it gave people food poisoning.

The actress who plays the main character always manages to make the characters she plays as unlikable, irritating and bratty af. She did the same thing with her character named Davina in The Originals.

This movie was SO awful, and damn near impossible to get through, even with the death grip on my psyche that Sterling Knight had at that point

I’m gonna be that person that says I’m never early to a video. So excited for this one! 😆 Nick you make watching old cringe Disney as an adult a lot more bearable

This movie was pure y/n fanfic come to life, and the sad thing about it is that it's one of the better ones considering how old it is. Songs slap tho, burn me at the stake, I don't care!

When you said “Courtney Wortney” I immediately thought “that’d be a great name for a BoJack Horseman character” 😂

The age difference between the actors always ooked me out he’s like 20 and she was like 14

This felt like every single story on wattpad about a male popstar, or boyband, and the fact that she was a kinda talentless but very broadly pretty kinda made it for me. Although, the actress in the movie was one of my first female crushes, her cheekbones and her smile were so pretty!

Are they trying to normalize predatory language? "You can't tell anyone, not even your parents"

I love how Nick has zero patience for this nonsense when he's feeling sick 🤒🤧

I saw this notification and the title and thought NO and then immediately thought actually yeah...

Under 21 clubs would attract two types of people: tweens and sexual predators. That’s why we never see them.

I remember when this first premiered on the Disney Channel, I was so excited to watch it, but didn't understand time zones, so 8/7central didn't make sense to me. I turned the TV on at 8 to find the movie was already half over, and I was super sad. I didn't watch it in full until adulthood, because every other time it was on after that I either only got to see half or missed it entirely...

fun fact the girl who plays Jessica's sister in the movie is the voice of Molly mcdonald in the tv series arthur for many episodes

Honestly, I agree about your underdeveloped Clinique opinion. No one is consciously thinking it, but subconsciously, we might interpret a lab coat as a sign someone has a greater knowledge or education in medicine. That is totally relevant to buying skin care.

I love how black mirror got so bad toward the end that they stole this plot for one of their episodes. You could review that next actually

I remember distinctly disliking this movie when it came out despite being the age demographic it was meant for (ok maybe slightly older cos i was 16 but still)

Would love to see Nick roast the John Hughes films of the 1980s; the homophobic, EVERYTHING-phobic gems that (mis)shaped generations..and why your parents are toxic 😂

There were girls out there like me who was absolutely in love with Chad Dylan Cooper/Sterling Knight. I was glad they gave him a chance for his own movie. Lol

Honestly the only reason Jessica “fell for” Chris is because he put her in her place by calling her ordinary lmao.

The sheer back and forth I went through in 2 seconds from being excited, to confusing thinking you did this already but confusing it with stuck in the suburbs, then excited again. I've wanted this for a while!

I was OBSESSED with the movie as a kid bc I had the biggest crush on Sterling Knight 🤣🤣 totally forgot this movie even existed 😭😭

I've never seen most of these films, but I just love these critiques and breakdowns for Nick's personality and wit alone. 💗💗💗

the fact that the only other notable movie Jessica’s actress has done since this is the fine bros horrendous attempt at one makes all too much sense

Nick, i think that was a valid criticism of the clinque lab coats, they're adopting the aesthetic of scientists to make themselves seem more trustworthy

I will NEVER forgive Disney for trying to sell me this guys as every girl's dream. DO YOU READ ME DISNEY CORPORATION?! NE E VE RRRR!

I was excited for this movie because I loved Sunny with a Chance but it was all just awful. She was awful. For some reason the quality of this movie was just bad.

For the past 12 years i was CONVINCED this movie was with selena gomez

How dare you tarnish this ICONIC piece of cinema

i've always loved the way jessica heads over and stands in front of the tv. she hates the singer, so the only possible reason she could be standing there looking like an action figure is to piss off her sister, who was quietly watching tv and minding her own business lmao. this movie is about if the bully character won in the end

When I first watched this movie my brother told me that there was a side plot where Sterling Knight was a rat king and that’s why he has a little rodent face & that scared me so badly I threw up

Plot? Trash. Soundtrack? I love. AND BEFORE YOU COME FOR ME this movie came out when I was in my fan girl era, it’s so nostalgic I can’t hate it.

You can always tell how bad the movie/person Nick is reviewing is by how sick he is at the start of the video. Thank you for sacrificing yourself for our entertainment. 🥺🤣

The main guy's name is too close to my uncle's name. Also you called him Christopher Knight at one point, I just thought it was funny because that's one of the Brady Bunch kids.

I remember being in middle school and hating this movie when it came out BUT then watching it all the time when they put it on netflix

I have a memory of watching this in middle school and wondering for days afterward why they made the main girl so Unlikable. and I still feel the same now lol. why is this pop star falling in love with her?? I wont be surprised if I find out all the writers were out-of-touch, middle aged men because this teen girl doesn’t have a human personality

It's funny you mentioned One Direction because the actress of the main character dated Louis lmao

You should do a clip breakdown of Hatching Pete, only because it was filmed at the high school I went to 😂 I actually don’t remember what the movie is about

- thank you!!!!! everyone i follow has this movie as one of their favourites from childhood, and like i'm not here to hate, i have undying love for very bad movies, very children movies, i am the queen of nostalgia, my movie taste is basically trash, but i absolutely never got the hype for this one! - first off,for a while i thought this movie and one of the cinderalla adaptations i think it was called ella something wuth the same actor were like the same movie? so i always was confused. - we know nothing about these characters, like why should i care about this romance, where is the romance? they fight constantly, she's super rude to him for no reason, they keep talking to each other like they're telling them someone no one else had the courage to say about them and like it makes no sense because we don't see anything about their character???? - jessica is just so rude to everyone. I didn't understand why she felt she was so superior to everyone. She looked down on her sister for her obsession over Chris and the fact that she doesn't read. Like, I get that she can like his music without caring about his personal life, everyone is like that, I love so many artists and know nothing about them, that's normal, and yes, I agree that celebrity culture is toxic and useless, we don't need them, but she doesn't need to look down on her sister for her obsession, it's such a double standard. I'm sure if Jess had an author she admired deeply, no one would look down on her for loving them, yet a love like that is no more valid than a love for a musician or actor, it's really just a making fun a teen girls thing. i am so over that, it was absolutely painful to watch. - i don't understand how the parens are okay with the girls going around LA unsupervised like it's not where thymre from, is this not a family holiday, should they not spend time as a family? but no one says anything about it, it's like a bad fanfic. and also why is the older sister not worried about her younder sister disappearing when she's on her watch? as an older sister, if i was out with my little sister and she was simply gone without saying anything i would freak out - like, i have never hated a movie this intensely, i try to see the positive in everything, it's annoying to people actually, but this movie just irks me so freaking much, and i know it's an unpopular opinion, it's one of my rare ones

The main actress was in another teen movie years later where she was somehow still playing a teenager, F the Prom. You should review it some time.

this movie felt the producer stole his niece's unfinished self insert fanfiction. or worse her finished self insert fanfiction and turned it into a film

I'm assuming they switched cars because the paparazzi recognize Chris's car and he wants to stay anonymous, but then poor grandma is going to get hounded. ...and the car doesn't even hold off the paparazzi for long so what IS the point?

I love your clip breakdowns so much!! Thank you for putting all the thought and effort you do into these

This used to be my favorite movie as a teen. I can't tell you how many times I cried during the part where they separate

It’s scary how fast I clicked on this video😭💀

in Portland, there was an all-ages LGBTQ nightclub called The Escape, but it was only open two nights a week and it was $10-15 to get in (and that’s in 00s money). they had to close their doors years ago. they barely made ends meet as it was, and they never really recovered from the recession. in their last few years, they were only able to open sporadically. suffice to say, all-ages nightclubs are not financially viable, and are not usually considered worth the potential legal consequences of creating a space for minors to interact mostly unsupervised.

i remember loving this movie as a kid, but upon rewatching it as an adult i realized it was literally just an obvious copy of wattpad y/n fanfics (which absolutely describes jessica’s character, she’s not a girl next door she’s a im not like regular girls lol.). it’s honestly disney’s worst movie, it was hard to get through. you make it so much more entertaining lmao.