I'll start rambling to avoid spoiling for people and if I offend people, I am very sorry and if another thread was started elsewhere, sorry about that too (though I didn't see another thread).

I just came from this movie and feel the need to bash it. First, it just entered the cheap theatre in our city (and most movies take a little longer to get to the cheapy). And I went to the afternoon matinee (saving a buck). I paid $2.00 Canadian (and even though our dollar is on the up-swing, the dollar is pretty worthless). I also wasn't expecting much from the movie. That said, I feel ripped off (and some of the reason I went was to go to the nice air-conditioned theatre and escape the heat).

****POSSIBLE SPOILERS TO PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SEE IT START NOW****

I love musicals, and opera, so I thought that I would enjoy the movie (realizing it is no Sound of Music, Chicago, or Moulin Rouge). Boy was I wrong. The story was so lame. It was trying to be a very cheap (yet the set looks expensive) knock-off of Grease without the emotional connection.

Here are the comparisons for Grease.
Beach scene and hooking up and trying to hook up in both movies (though Grease was a full year and spent more time in school and KtoJ was a week of spring break).

Girl who is manipulative because of insecurities in both. Although Rizzo is a more complicated character than the blond Alexa who at the end of the movie said she was jealous because her girlfriends were hooking up and she wasn't and she doesn't want to be labelled "Party Girl" anymore.

I had issues with the movie. I was happy, in the beginning, when Kelly was chastising Justin for being an organizer of events that are similar to Girls Gone Wild but she quickly gave it up.

And the way that Kelly forgave Alexa (blond) almost instantly because Alexa told the whole truth to Justin allowing their relationship to continue really bothered me. People aren't supposed to manipulate (and she manipulated by setting up her own dates and text messaging her own messages on the phone) with other people's relationships. Offering advice or opinions is one thing but maliciously trying to break the relationship is another thing.

The sub-plots were pretty lame too. Kaya (black girl) hooking up with the waiter (Carlos? I think). And internet boy (Eddie? I think) was pretty lame (and I still liked him more than the other characters). The only time I kept laughing was when Officer Cutler (female cop) would keep fining Brandon? but I'm still not happy that they hooked up (even though we saw it coming a mile away).

Some of the dance sequences were nice and I did like some of the tunes but that is not going to save the show. The entering of the dance sequences seemed forced and out of place which made me feel uncomfortable watching the movie. (And I normally don't feel that way with musicals or opera).

So all in all, I think I'll give this movie about a 3/10. Don't spend money on it. It just isn't worth it.

And if you are wondering how I knew the names as well as I did (especially since I hated the movie so much), it was because I used http://us.imdb.com/ for the character names with actors. Some of them didn't have pictures so that is why I'm not too sure about the character names.