Good movie but grossly overrated

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

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

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Miley Stewart (Miley Cyrus) is hiding a secret that only her family, brother Jackson and father Robby Ray (Billy Ray Cyrus) knows about. She is pop star Hannah Montana. In her normal life, she is at the lower rung of the middle school social ladder with her best friends Lilly Truscott (Emily Osment) and Oliver Oken (Mitchel Musso). She is forced to reveal to Lilly in the pilot and eventually to Oliver who is obsessed with Hannah. In the second season, they start high school. Rico (Moises Arias) is the diminutive demanding kid who runs the beach food stall.The secret identity is a pretty good concept. It's another wacky kids show and Hannah Montana is the next big Disney kid character. Miley is a nice all-around performer. Emily and Mitchel are the wacky friends. Everybody is wacky fun. It has a couple of good years but it eventually wears thin. The outside world of Miley's real world persona starts infecting the show. The show couldn't really continue as it was by the end. This is another big Disney character for good and bad.

I've seen a lot of user reviews of this show and I am a bit disappointed. Most of the reviews are just haters doing their best to trash this show. Luckily, at the time this show was airing, I wasn't watching because I didn't have access to Disney Channel. I say luckily because if I did, I would probably join the list of the people who were sick and annoyed at this show. I only watched this last year and I must say, I had fun with it. Don't get me wrong, I saw flaws, especially in season 1. The acting was disappointing for some, some jokes weren't that funny (the laugh tracks didn't help) and the show was a bit two over-the- top. These problems are even more notable in the first 3 episodes. However, overtime you start to adapt to the show's nature and also it starts diminish the flaws. You can still still spot these flaws in later seasons, but they are not worse than when the show began. The show also has great features: it has exciting story lines, the characters are lovable, it has some funny puns and a few pop culture references, it's cute funny (rarely inappropriate), it recognizes teenager's struggles and even though some episodes seemed repetitive, there aren't so much clichés in the stories, not that I even seen. What I liked more about this show are Miley & Lily. Miley Stewart wasn't interesting in season 1, but after season 2 she became an actual character and way funnier, with her many quirks and over-the-top jokes, behavior and plans. Lily is also very funny, ever since the first season. Jackson was silly, unfunny and irrelevant for me at first, but after the show took his love/hate relationship with Rico more seriously, he became more interesting, along with Rico. Robby Ray, in spite of his not so good acting, has always been hilarious, inspiring and memorable. Even though the show's main premise is about a lie, the show is very educative. The show tried to show us something new in TV for kids and despite the flaws and what many people say, I think it did.

Hannah Montana is just horrible and this is coming from a kid! I mean its about a girl who is a pop sensation and also a regular teen who wears a wig and acts like no one can recognize her! thats ridiculous. I mean if she was that popular than I am sure someone would notice. Another thing is her boyfriend Jake it's like she is always breaking up with him and then being with him again. Come on and I would also like to bring in her best friend Lily its like she bosses her around. In one episode she makes Lily convince Miley's dad to buy Miley a new phone just because a brand new one came out and the funny thing is that Lily doesn't even have a nice phone herself! Well I think its just like ANT farm annoying and predictable. So not worth watching

Let's just say that I saw some of the episodes of Hannah Montana and I thought they were decent with some funny humor. But then, as the show went on, it started to become repetitive because some of the characters had no personalities other than being one-dimensional morons! At least the show had ended a year ago. Don't get me wrong, it had a very decent premise, but it was just executed so terribly.Hannah Montana was alright in some of the episodes, but later becomes annoying and comes across as somewhat boring and unrealistic to the children. My favorite character, out of all the others who were also unrealistic, was Miley Cryus's father Billy Ray Cyrus because he teaches his daughter some lessons in order to help her out with her situations. He also gave me some goofy hilarious moments throughout the show.Mitchel Musso and Emily Osment were very decent, Moises Arias can sometimes be funny, but later becomes so annoying and uninteresting. The rest of the cast were OK, but nothing special.The show has some pretty good songs, including the theme song, "I Learn From You", and more, but only some of them became unrealistic and repetitive.Overall, Hannah Montana isn't as bad as everyone thinks it is, but with better original songs, better characters, and better episodes, it would've been so so much better!