During the month of October, the Disney Channel always makes it a
point to add a few odd (kid-friendly) creepy movies for younger viewers
to enjoy. These movies are suited for a younger children who enjoy a
good scary movie, yet without having nightmares.
Stepsister From Planet Weird, however, is not really a
scary movie, but it is strange and creepy enough as to where it fit well
with the Disney Channel's line up of kid-friendly, Halloween-type
flicks.
It basically centers around a young teen by the name of Megan. Megan's mother recently fell in love with a guy named Cosmo Cola. Cosmo Cola though is from another planet, and he and his daughter Ariel are on earth to hide from some wicked emperor back at their home planet, who was looking to destroy Cosmo. Nobody knows that they are aliens though! Megan's little brother though, for some odd reason keeps calling them aliens.
Immediately Megan decides she absolutely hates Ariel, and treats her like garbage all because she acts and talks weird. In all honestly the whole jealousy thing was taken a bit too far, and it got old pretty fast. Megan though gets a rude awakening at school when the entire school falls instantly in love with Ariel. They love her style, her hair, the way she speaks. Basically everything about Ariel is perfect in their eyes...and this sends Megan into yet another jealous fit.
Things get really wicked the moment Megan catches the guy she likes talking with Ariel. It seems that he too is smitten with her.
Megan decides to devise a plan to get rid of Ariel and her father. Seeing that Ariel wants nothing more than to go home, the girls actually team up to try and break up their parents before the wedding.
Plans though don't go quite as planned, because their parents quickly find out that the girls are up to no good, and they go on with the wedding anyway.
Ariel though who feels hopeless, and even more so seeing that she cannot adjust to the human lifestyle, decides to call her boyfriend back at their home planet. Ariel should have thought things through though, because her boyfriend is the son of the emperor who is looking to destroy her father.
Without giving the ending away, I figured I may as well add my two cents.
Stepsister From Planet Weird is just OK in my opinion. There were often times where the movie seemed to drag on and on, and points where I wish it would just end already, but at the same time there were some parts that had me slightly chuckling, even though those scenes were not long lived, or frequent enough.
I however continued watching the movie based on the fact that I wanted to see if the girl who played Ariel was somehow related to Macaulay Culkin, because she certainly looked to fit the Culkin family profile. Ariel though was played by Tamara Hope, a name I'd never heard of.
The acting was also just decent. We however could have done without the overacting.
All in all Stepsister From Planet Weird is still a flick that younger children will likely enjoy. Although you won't be seeing any green bobble head aliens with big black soulless eyes (they are bubbles of gas?), it's still a flick that will likely hold the attention of children ages 5 to 7, and is an alright movie for Halloween time.
It basically centers around a young teen by the name of Megan. Megan's mother recently fell in love with a guy named Cosmo Cola. Cosmo Cola though is from another planet, and he and his daughter Ariel are on earth to hide from some wicked emperor back at their home planet, who was looking to destroy Cosmo. Nobody knows that they are aliens though! Megan's little brother though, for some odd reason keeps calling them aliens.
Immediately Megan decides she absolutely hates Ariel, and treats her like garbage all because she acts and talks weird. In all honestly the whole jealousy thing was taken a bit too far, and it got old pretty fast. Megan though gets a rude awakening at school when the entire school falls instantly in love with Ariel. They love her style, her hair, the way she speaks. Basically everything about Ariel is perfect in their eyes...and this sends Megan into yet another jealous fit.
Things get really wicked the moment Megan catches the guy she likes talking with Ariel. It seems that he too is smitten with her.
Megan decides to devise a plan to get rid of Ariel and her father. Seeing that Ariel wants nothing more than to go home, the girls actually team up to try and break up their parents before the wedding.
Plans though don't go quite as planned, because their parents quickly find out that the girls are up to no good, and they go on with the wedding anyway.
Ariel though who feels hopeless, and even more so seeing that she cannot adjust to the human lifestyle, decides to call her boyfriend back at their home planet. Ariel should have thought things through though, because her boyfriend is the son of the emperor who is looking to destroy her father.
Without giving the ending away, I figured I may as well add my two cents.
Stepsister From Planet Weird is just OK in my opinion. There were often times where the movie seemed to drag on and on, and points where I wish it would just end already, but at the same time there were some parts that had me slightly chuckling, even though those scenes were not long lived, or frequent enough.
I however continued watching the movie based on the fact that I wanted to see if the girl who played Ariel was somehow related to Macaulay Culkin, because she certainly looked to fit the Culkin family profile. Ariel though was played by Tamara Hope, a name I'd never heard of.
The acting was also just decent. We however could have done without the overacting.
All in all Stepsister From Planet Weird is still a flick that younger children will likely enjoy. Although you won't be seeing any green bobble head aliens with big black soulless eyes (they are bubbles of gas?), it's still a flick that will likely hold the attention of children ages 5 to 7, and is an alright movie for Halloween time.
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