Princess Of R & B: Aaliyah Movie Review

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PR0J01 Aaliyah; Princess of R&B Movie aired on Lifetime Saturday, November 15 and honestly I believe that it was the worst biopic I have ever seen. The reason I felt it was such a bad movie was because of the acting, the way Aaliyah was portrayed and the rushing of it, and when Aaliyah's family publicly disapproved of the role and denied Lifetime any legal rights to Aaliyah music. In June of this summer, it was announced on social media that an Aaliyah movie would come into the making and Zendaya Coleman, a Disney star actor, would portray the singer Aaliyah in the movie. After weeks of speculation about the movie, TV personnel Wendy Williams confirmed it and she also confirmed that she would be the executive producer of the movie and …show more content…

The little girl had the same exact dress, hairstyle and shoes as Aaliyah. Because of her look, I thought to myself this should be a great movie. The movie went to a commercial and came back. Aaliyah was sitting at the table with her uncle and manger, Barry Hankerson. She was eventually signed to his record label and soon it was announced that he signed and would be managing R. Kelly. Barry mentioned at the table that Aaliyah lost Star Search and her mom was saying that she had cried for days. The problem with that scene was that so much happened in act one that I did not understand what was going on. In the next scene Barry picked Aaliyah up from school and told her that she would have a record deal because he made a deal with R Kelly. Aaliyah jumped for joy and screamed out that, "I have a record deal!". The next scene passed in which Aaliyah came into the kitchen and she was already 15. I felt everything went so fast and we didn't really know much about her childhood. All I knew was that her uncle was a producer, she lost Star Search and she had a record deal. She sang "My Prerogative" at the Detroit High School for the Performing Arts talent show. It was pretty awkward because the actress voice was pretty shaky she didn't sound well. In the next scene the writers seemed to want to make it clear that R. Kelly was a hot producer in the '90s. When Aaliyah's uncle , Barry Hankerson, talked to R. Kelly at the club, he tried to convince him to listen to Aaliyah sing. The producers made R. Kelly's character very arrogant because he stated that he's too busy or too famous to listen to Aaliyah , but eventually he did. A good chunk of the movie has just been him leering at Aaliyah from behind dark shades in the studio. Aaliyah begins to fall in love with R Kelly. At one point, she talked back to her

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