Reviews

Well after reading several of the comments left here. I need to point out somethings that should be (but are not) obvious apparently.

1) Nat Wolff was born in 1994. Making him 12 almost 13. The movie was filmed in 2005 making him 11. (so yea, its kinda screwed how they portrayed him as being 9). All the other kids except Alex are around Nat's age. Allie (the girl that plays Rosalina) is supposedly 2 years older than Nat. Not sure on that one but if true, shes 14. My point is that these kids are around the age of 13 for teen-NICK (which is really for age groups of 10 - 14, as not too many people the above the age watches teen-NICK unless they have a younger sibling). 2) While this is a family production. (Polly Draper is Nat and Alex's Mother, Jesse Draper (Alex's girlfriend so to say), is really their cousin... ew incest... ha ha). The producers were going for the reality show look... but in fact its all scripted... for example Rosalina doesn't exist, the girl's name is Allie

Now for my opinion. I think the promotion that nick used killed the show. They put it out there that it was real, and reality based... as opposed to all their other shows which its a given fact that its scripted. If the movie and show was more obviously scripted, the acting would have to be better, and it would be a decent show, OR, they could go for real reality (meaning no more fake MTV awards, etc) and let the kids use their talent to build popularity... and if they earn one for real, then its worth watching. (notice i did say "IF" they earn one)

The show has potential... to be honest.. its way more real than Zoey 101 (cmon now, lets overplay the west coast... its not that cool, and no boarding school has that kinda technology all over the place) or Drake and Josh. Granted Ned's Declassified is not real at all, but its "unrealism" is used for comedy, not for overplaying like in Zoey 101 (that show wouldn't be different if they ditched all the plasma TVs) but yea... the show has potential, but the "realism" aspect of it needs to be reworked or it will fail.