Very well executed

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Zoey is a very popular girl at PCA and everything seems to be happening to her but she always can find the right thing to do to solve every problem. She is blond, she is Britney Spears' little sister and she is Chase Matthews' crush since the first season. Many reviews state that because of these reasons, this show is very bad. It is not though! It is indeed not an accurate portrayal of boarding schools but it is just a TV series, not a documentary. Funny and entertaining it teaches young children to behave in the right way, to never lie and it reflects the importance of having good friends by your side.I do not see the difference between this series and Hannah Montana, Zack and Cody and other Disney Channel classics.If we then talk about the cinematography then I would like to point out that it is quite bad, the acting is sometimes not realistic enough and at times the editing reveals to be too dull. I would give it a 6 mostly because of Jamie Lynn Spears' acting at times and because she should be aware at least by season 2 that Chase is in love with her! Girls are not that stupid!However, I am 21 and enjoy watching some episodes after a rough day on dissertations and seminars as it is indeed quite funny and something positively different from the shows that are on today.

I hated this show back when it came on in 2005. Jamie Lynn Spears starred for two seasons on the god awful All That reboot. So Nickelodeon for some strange reason decided to give her own show for god knows why. She wasn't anything special to warrant her own show and she was a horrible actress. Everything about this show was crap. They go to a boarding that has a sushi bar, pink and purple stylish dorms with mini fridges, student lounges with flat screen HD TV's, apparently no rules on this campus since these kids run around this school doing whatever they want. The adults were all adults dictated by a bunch of 13 year old brats.The characters are all cardboard cutout stereotypes. Nicole is the ditsy bubbly airhead girly girly who screams a lot. Dana was the tough Latina chick tomboy. Chase is a wimp loser, Logan is the arrogant rich jerk, Michael is the token black comic relief, Quinn is the weird nerdy girl who wears glasses and everybody makes fun of. Lola is an anorexic wannabe actress. Dustin was just...there. He served no purposed honestly. And then we have our main character Zoey, the biggest Mary Sue who ever graced the television screen. Miss perfect who can do absolutely no wrong, everyone loves her, she has all the ideas, all the guys want to date her, straight A student, she's pretty, smart, etc. She's BORING.... Between Tori and Carly, she the worst of Dan Schneider's female leads.This show also went through many cast changes. Dana/Kristin Herrera dropped after the first season apparently because the actress was deemed too old. So why did they cast her in the first place? Then after season 2 Nicole was written off, because of backstage fights and incidents between Alexa Nikolas and Lynn Spears. Britney then came to the set and yelled at and insulted Nikolas. They brought in Victoria Justice who played Lola to replace Nicole. Then after Season 3 Chase/Sean Flynn was written off and replaced by Austin Butler as James for most of the season 4.Overall, this was just a crappy boring show. The writing was bad, the acting was terrible, unlikable obnoxious characters, unrealistic setting, stupid plots, the comedy/gags were awkward and forced. This show just seem like an excuse to make Britney Spears little sister into a star which she certainly wasn't. She's not strong enough to carry her own show. The show ended because an underage Jamie Lynn Spears foolishly got pregnant at only 16 years old. Wow...great role model for the little 8 year old girls watching this show. What an idiot! The only good about this situation was that it killed Lynn Spears very short acting career.

Bad acting and poor plot lines aside, the basic plot points of the show are completely unrealistic. In one episode/movie special, Zoey, the main character, transfers (in the middle of the year) to a boarding school in England. This would never happen. The process of applying to boarding school takes close to a year (applications, campus visits, interviews, paper filing, etc.), and by the time an American student is in high school, if he has not been educated in the British form the majority of his education, he would never be able to catch up to where he needs to be in order to take the standardized testing.Another common occurrence is (as with almost all Nick and Disney show nowadays) immature, inept adults. If any the teachers/staff acted the way they do on the show, but at a real school, they would a) never have been hired, or b) been fired. And if Zoey and her cohorts did half the things they do at a real school, they would have landed themselves in front of the Disciplinary Committee enough times to be expelled.These points alone make the show terrible (for me, at least). As an attendee of a boarding school myself, it casts boarding schools in a horrible light. It's not the glamorous, parent-free world that the show makes it out to be. And, yes, we do have a sushi bar in our buffet line and flat-screen TVs in our student lounge.

This was another one of those shows that I watched to root out the positive elements, and because I've been a Nick fan for years. Some of those would be the stage sets, B-plots, guest stars, and a few of the main actors that were good. I dabbled in the show through high school as I quickly grew to despise Jamie Spears, along with the other chicks in the show that can't act. The only characters I seemed to like were Dustin, Quinn, Stacey, Michael & Logan. Quinn is a perfect outcast that eventually started to fit in; Stacey is a complete oddball; Dustin gets put through a bunch of strange, random situations; and Michael is kind of the comic relief right-hand man of Logan. There's a remarkable difference between the execution & acting quality of the B-plots that involve them, and the A-plots that showcased a bunch of screeching girls and an iconic "Miss Perfect," repeating bad lines and obsessing over guys. This show would have been great if the main plots contained the quality of the side plots, but the main plots just don't deliver anything. When it recently came back in reruns, and I tried to watch it again, I was more calloused towards the girls' abysmal acting and had to change the channel. However, I will give the previously listed characters credit because they did make the show more or less worth my time.