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- 2022
- PG
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
- 2022
- PG
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
Summary Stargirl Caraway as she journeys out of Mica into a bigger world of music, dreams and possibility.
Directed By: Julia Hart
Written By: Jordan Horowitz, Jerry Spinelli, Julia Hart
- 2022
- PG
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
- 2022
- PG
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
Hollywood Stargirl
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4.0
Summary Stargirl Caraway as she journeys out of Mica into a bigger world of music, dreams and possibility.
Directed By: Julia Hart
Written By: Jordan Horowitz, Jerry Spinelli, Julia Hart
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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Hart and her team have carefully and craftily built the ultimate sequel. The narrative advances the perky protagonist’s internal and external objectives with a gentle yet profound arc; technical contributions complement her journey, both visually and sonically. The film never betrays its lead character in any fashion.
Hollywood Stargirl is smart, family-friendly entertainment with the perfect combination of real-world plausibility and magical escapism.
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Nothing that happens in Hollywood Stargirl is consequential or surprising. But the cast is likable, the music is good (featuring winning covers of canonical California songs like Brian Wilson’s “Love and Mercy” and Cass Elliot’s “Make Your Own Kind of Music”) and, as with “Stargirl,” there’s a bone-deep decency to this sequel that’s pretty disarming.
Hollywood Stargirl, for all its charm, doesn’t quite hang together as a complete story. It feels like an episode, a vignette, a tiny slice of Stargirl’s remarkable life suddenly turned into a filmmaking parable she’d likely balk at.
Sure, the film may feel somewhat tepid in places, and it meanders, but the overwhelming wholesomeness of the picture will make one embrace its simplicity.
Hollywood Stargirl could be seen as a filmmaking exercise. How do you build a story around a character who was auxiliary by design? Hart’s solutions are manifold, but her most effective one is to quash the grating altruism that drove Stargirl in the first movie.
