Julie and The Phantoms

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If you have never met me, then you have no idea of my love for musical movies or TV shows. This love for musicals I thought had started with High School Musical (just this movie that I watched when I was younger.) but it actually started way earlier. Unfortunately, I am not here to talk about musicals in general. Also, there is a reason why I decided mention HSM in this particular review. 

Netflix recently released a Disney-centric 9 episode show called Julie and The Phantoms based on a Brazillian Nickelodeon show that lasted only for a season. This new guilty pleasure is excutive-produced by the one and only Kenny Ortega, director of the HSM trilogy and the Descendants trilogy, two of Disney Channel's biggest franchises. 

From watching the show, you can feel the your youth being pushed out of your moody, adult persona's that you've adopted since life got hard (or at least that's what I felt when I watched the show). Apart from it being a great family show, Julie and the Phantoms might just be the next HSM.. hopefully due to its potential and of course, catchy soundtrack. Also, the story way more enjoyable than the third Descendants movie because honestly, watching it robbed me the feeling I felt when I watched the first two movies. I thought Kenny had lost it after the three-quel. Luckily with Julie, he hasn't. 

Ortega managed to make yet another star out of Madison Reyes who plays Julie Molina, the star of the show - who is a young, fresh latinx powerhouse that has a groundbreaking voice that definitely outshines her fellow Phantom bandmates. Speaking of her bandmates, the boys are also new to the acting game since I have never seen them before but they are as talented and do well portraying enjoyable yet relatable ghosts that are in a rock band. Plus, they are cute as hell, they sing and have the power to melt any 12 to 14 year old's hearts the way Zac Efron did back in the day. (And don't bother denying it.)

Other than the fact that the script was cheesy, predictable and cringey as every Disney and Nickelodeon show that I loved during the early 2000's, Julie and The Phantoms should be more appreciated and I hope that after this review, kids will start forcing their parents to get Julie and The Phantoms merchandise the way my sister and I did when High School Musical was all the rage for three consecutive years. ('All The Rage' is a total understatement as to how we treated High School Musical, by the way.) 

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