if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

"You get to be the dreamer, all I'll ever be is the dream" says Loretta Modern (Spencer Redford) wistfully in the climatic scene of what is perhaps the most lyrical and intellectually ambitious film Disney has ever made. Lurking beneath its technological showcase and tame teen angst storyline, "Pixel Perfect" (2004) contains a rather deep allegorical take on an existential theme. It explores the isolation of someone who gradually realizes that they do not belong in the world. It is allegorical because Loretta really does not belong, she is a holographic rock star created by Roscoe ("Phil of the Future's" Ricky Ullman) through an experimental process his father's has developed. His friend Samantha's band, the Zettabytes, needs a front man (technically a front woman as this is an all-girl group) and Loretta has been assembled from a variety of sources to meet this need. This proves a mixed blessing to Samantha as she quickly becomes extremely jealous of Loretta's popularity and the attention she is getting from her creator. Understandable since Loretta was designed to transcend Samantha's limitations."Tron" (1982) and "Electric Dreams" (1984) are the film's obvious predecessors, and there is even a little bit of HAL from "2001 A Space Odyssey". But what appears to have started it all was the 1967 Star Trek television episode "Metamorphosis" in which a strange energy cloud called "The Companion" merges with the dying Commissioner Hedford (Elinor Donahue) to become human. There are several nice "Tron" - like special effects excursions into the world of bits and bytes; as well as a scene inside Samantha's mind. Like Edgar and HAL, Loretta soon begins to transcend her basic programming and develop human emotions.But Loretta goes somewhere else, into the world of films like "Carnival of Souls" (1962) and "The Incredible Shrinking Man". Taking on the concepts of human alienation, loss of identity, and separation from society. The film's best song "Notice Me" goes to this theme. As it was for a shrinking Scott Carey ("The Incredible Shrinking Man"), for Loretta getting to the outside (getting to feel the rain) is symbolic of no longer being constrained by limitations.The ending was a little too vague and pulls its punches. But what actually occurs is that Loretta gives up her identity to save Samantha. Loretta must subordinate herself to merge with and heal Samantha. The new Samantha appears unchanged but has taken on a lot of what was Loretta. The allegorical resolution is the realization that loss of identity is freedom, that you are not alone because you are a part of something bigger-and this is what Loretta discovers she wants more than anything else-despite being programmed to simply be a performer. Redford's take on Loretta may remind you of the character Tamara Hope played in "Stepsister from the Planet Weird" (2000). Until I checked out the two casts I thought it was the same actress. Things tend to bog down when Loretta is not in a scene. Girls appear to be the primary target audience of this film although boys and adults with active brain cells who are willing slow down long enough to examine its message should be entertained as well.Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

This is the absolute WORST Disney Channel Original Movie I've ever seen. It didn't seem to really flow. I think that it's really stupid. Though the main character was really good looking, the whole plot was dumb, and the dancing didn't go along with the music.

Perhaps if I was eight, I'd enjoy this movie. Heck, I didn't even know about it until I was channel-flipping and came upon it accidentally. For a Disney movie, I have to admit it was decent, but a hologram is simply an image, nothing more, no matter how much Disney tries to mislead children in thinking that it is a program with feelings. The singing wasn't all that great. In fact, it was obvious the actors were lip-singing, and the acting...was not all that great. It seems to me to have been a copycat Simone. But don't take MY word for it, go see Simone and then watch Pixel Perfect and see the similarities yourself. Overall, this movie is a 1/10 for anyone with a mind, however, if I was braindead I'd give it a 5/10. Definitely not a movie I'd want to see more than once.

For the detractors, as MST3K has always advocated, "Repeat to yourself, 'It's just a show, I should really just *relax*.'I enjoyed this movie, especially with my five-year-old son, who really likes the songs (he sings them while walking around the house). Of course, the typical five-year-old's penchant for watching a new movie meant that I watched this movie four times this past weekend, but I digress.I concur that this movie is better than the typical Disney-TV-movie-a-tron fare. It's not groundbreaking cinema, but it does tell a story with a decent moral (albeit the moral is laid on thick, like mortar with a trowel), and yes, the acting is good.I *loved* the search engine, as well as the depiction of being in Samantha's brain.