Disney's latest hot commodity, the young actress Lindsay Lohan, got good notices for "The Parent Trap" remake and last year's
delightful "Freaky Friday" remake. She's being made to pay her dues, though, with "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen," an insufferable quasi-comedy that will one day be nothing more than a blip on her otherwise respectable resume. Based on a young-adult novel by Dyan Shelden, "Confessions" is about a 15-year-old Manhattanite named Mary (Lohan), though she prefers to go by Lola. Lola is indeed a drama queen, melodramatic in the extreme, always vying to be the center of attention, forever dressed in unusual outfits. She is either devastatingly insecure or stunningly over-confident, but the examination of such deep psychological questions is not on this movie's agenda. Lola's life is thrown into turmoil when her artist mother (Glenne Headly), for undisclosed reasons, moves the family to the affluent suburb of Dellwood, N.J. Here Lola runs the gauntlet of high school clichés: Her only new friend is an unpopular girl, Ella (Alison Pill), and they are tormented by a trio of bitchy girls, led by pretty Carla Santini (Megan Fox).
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