Someday, My prince will come...

After last entry I decided to take a break from culture and to curl up in a blanket to see my next guilty pleasure. As ashamed as I am to admit it, I have a notorious soft spot for wrong side of the tracks-romance-through-dance movies. Save the Last Dance? Check. Step Up? Check. Dirty Dancing (1+2)? Check and check. Another Cinderella Story? The jury is still out on it.

Don't get me wrong. I think the story is cute and that the idea of an aging pop-star as the wicked stepmother is pure genius. I actually like the cheesy High School Musical-esque music (maybe it could be because Drew Seeley's voice was meshed with Zac Efron's for the role of Troy in the first one?).  For me the main foible the film is the upcoming Disney talent, Selena Gomez. Now, Selena has a decent voice and I wish I could dance like her, but all I could think throughout this film was that she looked like an eight year old. Yeah maybe in all actuality she is only two years younger then me, but actuality doesn't change the age she appears. What should have been a new favorite guilty pleasure scene at the school Valentine's dance where the two zero in on each other makes me feel weird to watch, simply because she is doing all of these great salsa moves with a guy who looks like he could be 15 years older than her. It makes me want to tell her to put that highly extended leg away. The film makers keep trying to "sex her up" at every turn, whether it be with the dance moves or with the copious amounts of skinny jeans. This fails at making her look older.

And about him appearing to be so much older than her. The premise is that superstar Joey Parker is coming back to school for senior year, though he looks to be about 23, which could be believed if he wasn't attending high school. Also, Andrew Seeley is billed as Drew Seeley for the film in an attempt to make the actor himself seem younger. By the way, he real age is that of Selena Gomez's, plus ten years.

This saddens me, because it is a film with so much guilty pleasure potential. The supporting cast is fantastic, the characters are well written and choreography is good. I could see myself obsessing over Andrew Seeley for a little while, which is the intent of his casting and always a high point for me. Despite all of these things, I don't think that I'll ever be able to get past the fact that to me, Selena Gomez is 8. And to watch it on a guilty pleasure level would make me feel like a pedophile. Which often doesn't make for a happy movie watching experience.

Is the obsession of older men- younger women taking over the tween movieverse?