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29 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 22 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 22
  3. Negative: 12 out of 22
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    63
    It isn't a really good movie, but there's real talent in it.
  2. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    63
    An enjoyably cheesy teen melodrama with a touch of indie edge.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Robert K. Elder
    50
    There is a good movie here--Strait actually sings the songs that stand on their own, and he's appealing, despite the rock movie cliches.
  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    50
    It doesn't belong at a megaplex. It should be playing on a Clear Channel station.
  5. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Liam Lacey
    50
    The trouble with Undiscovered isn't that it's actively annoying but it's so dramatically listless it seems determined to become Unremembered.
  6. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    40
    The music is surprisingly good and there's a skateboarding bulldog that you've just gotta see to believe.
  7. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    40
    Undiscovered is beaten on all counts by TV's "Entourage" and "Unscripted" in its portrayal of the aspirational lifestyle and its end-of-the-rainbow spoils.
  8. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Crust
    40
    The whole movie could be clipped by about 95 minutes and it would make a swell little video for Simpson's performance of the title cut from the soundtrack.
  9. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    40
    As a cautionary drama on the price of fame, Undiscovered could not tread on more exhaustively discovered territory, and the result is a reel-by-reel trail of cliches.
  10. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    40
    It isn't bad enough to be good.
  11. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Christie Lemire
    38
    Too inert to be titillating, too generic to be engaging.
  12. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    38
    On paper, the "rising stars" of Meiert Avis' low-flying romantic comedy Undiscovered are Steven Strait and Pell James, but the real star is Tyson the Skateboarding Dog.
  13. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Michael Rechtshaffen
    30
    An entirely dispensable, soapy caricature of a love story that comes complete with a jukebox full of music industry cliches plus Ashlee Simpson's big feature film debut.
  14. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    30
    The vapid teen talent show Undiscovered turns on a plot point so moronic that even the most dedicated bad-movie buffs have cause to stay away.
  15. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nona Willis-Aronowitz
    30
    A PG-13 dramedy set in L.A. about some attractive, way-too-earnest aspiring stars has the potential to be a delectable good-bad favorite, but Undiscovered is nowhere near the guilty pleasure it could have been.
  16. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    30
    Though filled with romantic contrivances and overlong musical numbers, Undiscovered is curiously lifeless. Bland actors portray single-cell characters in a plot scarcely more diverting than Ms. Simpson's reality vehicle, "The Ashlee Simpson Show."
  17. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    30
    Tailored for the readership of Teen People magazine and about as thought-provoking as the average 500-word celebrity profile.
  18. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Hartlaub
    25
    The movie plays more like a WB network teen drama than something audiences should be expected to pay to see.
  19. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    25
    As Brier's comrade-in-lip-gloss, Ashlee Simpson, dressed to look like a teenybop girl version of Crispin Glover in "River's Edge," is the real deal -- in fake cred.
  20. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Bill White
    25
    Undiscovered promotes one of the stupidest visions of the entertainment industry since "American Idol" opened the celebrity gateway to the dregs of the karaoke generation.
  21. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Kimberley Jones
    11
    Some things are best left undiscovered.
  22. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    0
    Indeed, I'd say Undiscovered belongs on the WB, but that would be gravely unfair to the channel, which looks like the BBC in comparison.
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User Score
3.7 out of 10

Generally unfavorable- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 6 out of 6
  1. JasonM
    0
    The movie was almost as good as Ashley's performance at the halftime show where she was booed by 20,000 people.
  2. PatrickK
    0
    Ashlee Simpson. What more do you need to know?
  3. TylerD.
    0
    If they could somehow morph this movie and the sicko trash movie "Chaos," I might actually watch it.
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