The Lizzie McGuire Movie

The Lizzie McGuire Movie is a 2003 American teen comedy film based on the popular Disney show, mh:besttvshows:Lizzie McGuire. This movie is considered the finale to the TV series.

Plot
Lizzie McGuire (Hilary Duff) and her classmates all head to Rome as their school-sponsored journey during their summer break. Before long she meets a local music sensation, Paolo Valisari (Yano Gellman), who has a duet partner that looks almost exactly like Lizzie. But there was a recent feud between Paolo and his collaborator, so Lizzie agrees to perform in a massive concert for the girl and lip sync. But when the original plan doesn’t work out so well, she must rely on her own singing voice to make the concert a success, while also overcoming her fear of stage fright.

Why This Is What Dreams Are Made Of!

 * 1) Having this movie be an actual motion picture, compared to being a TV movie, was a nice change for a Disney Channel show.
 * 2) This was a good series finale to the TV show.
 * 3) The soundtrack is pretty good, especially the song Lizzie sings, "What Dreams Are Made Of".
 * 4) The story was good, as having Lizzie become famous in Rome while also getting over her stage fright is perfect, while Lizzie is still her lovable self.
 * 5) All of the characters are likable as always. Heck, even Matt and Kate are more likable than usual.
 * 6) Nice new characters in the movie, like Isabella, who’s a good friend to Lizzie, and Pablo, who is a great antagonist for a Disney Channel based movie.
 * 7) The animated version of Lizzie was still pretty good, like the TV show, and had a good visual upgrade with the shading.
 * 8) Miranda and Larry, although absent, are both mentioned here, showing that it’s nice the show didn’t forget them completely and gave them a shout out.
 * 9) Lizzie and Gordo help each other out during the movie, and finally become a couple at the end of the movie with a great romantic kiss.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) This movie feels like a sitcom, but it’s not surprising, considering this is based off of a TV show, after all.
 * 2) The movie can get annoying at times.
 * 3) The story, while it was good, can be predictable.

Critical reception
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval 41% based on reviews from 99 critics. The site's consensus stated it was a "harmless piece of fluff that ought to satisfy fans of the TV show". On Metacritic the film has a score of 56 out of 100 based on reviews from 28 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B on scale of A to F.

Scott Brown of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B+: "Let's face it: Lizzie McGuire (Hilary Duff) is just too darn polished to be a junior-high underdog, even by the standards of her 'luxe suburban environs'. But that hasn't tarnished her comeback-kid cred among the six-and-ups who faithfully follow her Disney Channel show—and it doesn't make The Lizzie McGuire Movie, a clever, agreeably weightless theatrical outing, any less enjoyable." Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four, but praised Borstein's performance, calling her work "the only really delightful element in the movie; everything else is simply slick and professional."

Box office
On its opening weekend the film grossed $17.3 million in 2,825 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking second behind X2: X-Men United. The Lizzie McGuire Movie grossed $42.7 million domestically and $12.8 million internationally for a worldwide total of $55.5 million.

Trivia

 * This is the first theatrical Disney film based on a Disney Channel series.
 * This film is similar to The Even Stevens Movie in that the main character has just graduated from Jr. High and goes away from their home to a foreign area. However, this movie was released theatrically, and not a Disney Channel Original Movie.