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Cast
- Aly MichalkaCharlotte Banks
- Vanessa HudgensSa5m
- Gaelan ConnellWill Burton
- Scott PorterBen Wheatly
- Ryan DonowhoBasher Martin
- Charlie SaxtonBug
- Lisa KudrowKaren Burton
- Tim JoOmar
- ElvyIrene Lerman (Cello)
- Lisa ChungKim Lee (Keyboards)
Recommendations
- 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Had Cameron Crowe and the late John Hughes collaborated on a movie populated by Disney Channel superstars, the result might have looked and sounded a lot like Todd Graff's Bandslam. And that's meant as a compliment. - 80
Variety
High school musicals have their scrappiest number in Bandslam, an awkward, earnest, almost irresistible indie. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
Misfit teens in the process of forming a high school band learn life lessons and raise their goblets of rock. But there's enough of a strong filmmaking backbeat in Bandslam to carry the movie's light tune. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
This isn’t a breakthrough movie, but for what it is, it’s charming, and not any more innocuous than it has to be. - 70
Village Voice
Todd Graff's film is written with a desperate cleverness that clamors for attention over the brainless against-the-odds music-competition plot. - 70
New York Daily News
Best of all is newcomer Connell, the kind of charismatic kid who would have been cast in "Freaks and Geeks" ten years ago. - 67
Austin Chronicle
Bandslam belongs to Connell. He has the unruly 'fro and endearing shamblingness of a young Daniel Stern, and he ably brings to life that rarest of cinematic qualities: decency. - 67
The A.V. Club
Throughout its first two acts, Bandslam is charming, sweet, and funny enough to merit inclusion in the upper echelon of teen comedies. Then comes a third act weighed down with arbitrary romantic conflicts, leaden melodrama, and a tiresome subplot.
