With character names like Luke Falcon and Wick Treadway, this showbiz romance dangles the promise of a Showgirls-style debacle, but it isn’t bad enough to be good.

| Mar 6, 2007

Undiscovered feels more like a pilot for a glossy nighttime soap on Fox -- probably one that would be canceled midseason -- than a feature film with even a modicum of discernible originality or depth.

| Mar 6, 2007

Undiscovered would like to think of itself as a gritty, documentary-style indie about hopefuls on the fringes of the industry, but it's more like one of those lame hair-metal bands that went out and bought flannel shirts after Nirvana hit it big.

| Sep 26, 2005

Simpson steals the show -- which, admittedly, isn't saying much considering her stiffest competition comes by way of a skateboarding bulldog.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Sep 4, 2005

Although it's all but forgotten before the fade-out, you don't rush to turn it off, either.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 3, 2005

An enjoyably cheesy teen melodrama with a touch of indie edge.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 3, 2005

Avis layers every sequence with pop singles and confuses poor camera focus and colored lighting for aesthetic flair.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Sep 2, 2005

Like, sigh!

| Original Score: D | Aug 31, 2005

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.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2005

It's "The Heights: The Movie," and who the blazes remembers "The Heights" (besides Jamie Walters' friends and loved ones, of course)?

| Original Score: 0/4 | Aug 27, 2005

Undiscovered just may be the dumbest movie of 2005.

| Aug 26, 2005

Undiscovered is for teens who haven't had their dreams of becoming models and rockers crushed out of them yet. It isn't a really good movie, but there's real talent in it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 26, 2005

It's contrived, cutesy and quickly tiresome.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 26, 2005

Undiscovered is a film about a great songwriter, and it contains horrible songwriting.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 26, 2005

When Hollywood suits conduct their autopsy on what went wrong at the box office this summer, they may wish to exhume the corpse of Undiscovered for a closer inspection. If they can stand the stench.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 26, 2005

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.

Full Review | Aug 26, 2005

Tyson, a brown and white English bulldog, has his own Web site, which offers clips of the eager fireplug flying down the street on his skateboard. In other words, you don't have to endure this dreadful movie to see him in action.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 26, 2005

This is a movie in which we're expected to buy Ashlee Simpson as a singer on the threshold of becoming a major star. That's an idea so ridiculous it could never happen in fiction, only in real life.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 26, 2005

All this silliness swirls around for about an hour and a half and then you get to leave the theater. Unless you're being held there at gunpoint. And really, that's about the only excuse for being in a theater watching this thing in the first place.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Aug 26, 2005

Incidentally, Simpson is pretty good, playing Luke and Briar's spunky pal. But her inoffensive goodness is a symptom of the movie's relentless homogeneity.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 26, 2005