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The movie was slightly disappointing. The first big let-down was that Brittany Snow (the main attraction for me) got practically no song-time. She had ONE 30-second single, in the middle of a, more or less, filler song. Biggest let-down was the lack of closure. I mean zero here. Soon as the finale is over, the movie is over. Big mistake on the director's part (or whoever deserves blame). It also affected Amy (Brittany's character) in that it wasn't clear whether her character gave up her villainous persona and brought herself out of being relationshipless and alone.
What I liked about the movie was pretty much Brittany Snow and John Travolta. The main character's mother was simply hilarious, and Amy was pretty much the only one with any originality to her. There was the "hot" guy (Zach Effron) who starts out as a mistaken, lost young man and through the help of his coincidental, ultimately justified and oppressed true love (the main character), is set on the right path. Through love. Yeah.
There was the main character's best friend (Amanda Bynes) who's only real purpose was to show up once in a while and help the main character out and to be the love interest of the other most pointless character, but she still got more time on screen than Brittany. There was some random kid who was really just there to set the whole "black oppression" theme, and to save Bynes' dubious character from her tight a** mom. Through love. Again.
Then there was Queen Latiffa, also there to support the "black oppression" theme. Brittany was the stereotypical snotty "girly" villain, but was really just being manipulated by her mother and showed various signs throughout the movie that hinted she may have really hated the woman, but it was never clarified and her character was more or less left hanging between the balances of good and not-so-good.
So, yeah, they got on my bad side by initally putting Brittany in a bad light, then not even giving her character the attention she deserved as a villainous addition to the plot.
Other than that, it was good. I still loved my Brittany, despite her limited acting and wasted, or perhaps more accurately, entirely ignored, talents.