Beulah Bram
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Geraldine
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
modestassem
If you are in the IMDb page of Austin & Ally you probably have some level of interest in the show, so I'll skip over its good points that you probably already know and move on to where it fell on its face.The fact of the matter is our generation will not have a lot of good Disney shows to look back at, it's not the modern perception's fault, but it's Disney unwillingness to experiment with new ideas and invest a good amount of budget in an era where TV Shows are made out to be stretched out movies rather than traditional old shows where storytelling was stale and limited by the amount of location and cinematographic intricacy that you can pull off.Austin & Ally was set to be a classic during its first two seasons, but once one of the "supposed-to-be-interesting" two characters got knocked out of his contract. In the third season, an EP came out with a song called "Take It From The Top" which eluded to a sequence of events leading to Austin Moon's comeback into the music scene, and that in a big way (since he mostly made Pop Rock music, but this differs completely from anything prior) the problem is, they went on with the lead-up to the Music Factory scenario which made absolutely no sense whatsoever and sounded like a shallow excuse/cover-up to exclude Ally's dad out the cast and ON TOP OF THAT, the central piece of the original pitch no longer had any impact on the narrative, nor on the narration in the least bit : Music.We were supposed to see Ally rise as a brilliant songwriter, and Austin as this great dancer/instrumentalist/vocalist but somehow, they managed to break it which old leads me to believe there was more in store for him until they got a budget cut... it's usually the most plausible for any show trying to lose its way out the airwaves. The problem is, and however unfair it may be, White Collar for example, made sure you got an incredible last season and a splendid ending to compensate for the show's absence, Austin and Ally on the other hand left no impression, and most viewers were probably left with a feeling of dissatisfaction, as if all their years of waiting and anticipation were turned to dust.Watch the "dream" sequence of the first episode of Season 3 to understand what I mean. It really looks like scrapped footage from the original concept which would've made it less worse than it already is.
BruceAndTheBeast
So I just watched the series finale. That's a lie, but there was no reason to seeing that the previews just told me how the series ended. Wanna know how? Austin and Ally confess their love for each other and kiss. Again, I didn't have to actually watch the series finale to know this since they showed to you in the teaser. They just spoiled a 1 hour event in about 5 seconds. Why? Why would you spoil your own episodes so blatantly. The purpose of a teaser is to show small snippets of the episode to engage the viewer, not give away the entire episode. With that aside, Austin and Ally was a mediocre and often hair pulling mess of a series. Following the formulaic "adventures" of the playboy of a singer Austin, a lazy, job hopping "Manager" Trish, the slightly bearable klutz Ally and the worst of the all, Dez. The fool that always comes along to ruin everything that just has to be in every Disney show.There is a slew of problems with this show. But, the other reviews do a better job of explaining them than I care to. Over all, Disney channel will be better off without this travesty.
cag649
When thinking of how i could describe the show in one word, I come up with horrible. It's just plain horrible. It's honestly hard for me to come up with anything good to say. Let's start with the characters. Ally is easily the worst actress I've ever seen. When casting I'm sure they figured she looked the part but God were they wrong. Every time she opens her mouth, I just wanna punch her in the face. After seeing her in Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader, I'm sure she is just in it for the fame no matter the price. Her singing is incredibly mediocre, now we know for sure that Disney pushes everyone to do it, even a talentless discount Victoria Justice like her. Her character is annoying and completely idiotic. Des is scary bad. We can pretty much expect one dumb friend in every show but he is in a category all hiss own. His jokes are predictable for anyone whose above 10 years old. His outfits are just outrageous and completely unrealistic. I'm sure that nobody would ever find him attractive, especially while he's wearing those androgynous get ups. The show's writing is what gets me the most. Where does Disney find these people? The scripts are so cliché and they never deviate from the same concept. I severely hope that the writers know they are creating trash because there is no way they could actually laugh at their own scripts. Disney, I know you have money. Please invest in a show that isn't for idiots.
Catherine_Grace_Zeh
"AUSTIN & ALLY," in my opinion, is an excellent Disney Channel show. I watch it with my 9-year-old nephew from time to time. I always smile and laugh whenever a mishap occurs. It's hard to say what the funniest one is. Another thing that makes this show funny is Trish's (Rani Rodriguez) comic relief. If you ask me, she always know just what to say and do to make the audience laugh. The writing is always strong, the performances are always good, and everything else about the show is good.Before I wrap this up, I'd like to say that if you don't have basic cable, you should get it. Now, in conclusion, I hope this will be on Disney for many years yet.
