The Proud Family Movie

In 2005, the Disney Channel decided to air an original movie to serve as the series finale for the series The Proud Family. Starring Kyla Pratt, Tommy Davidson, Paula Jai Parker, Jo Marie Payton, Tara Strong, Orlando Brown, Soleil Moon Frye, Alisa Reyes Omarion, LisaRaye McCoy, and Arsenio Hall, The Proud Family Movie was given a DVD release four months later with an extended ending.

Penny (Pratt) and her family (Davidson, Parker, Payton) are lured on an all-expenses paid vacation where a mad scientist (Arsenio Hall) captures them and refuses to let them go because Oscar (Davidson) won’t reveal the location of his secret Proud Snacks formula. So the scientist clones them from his peanut minions in order to find it.

This film is insufferable to get through to the point that there’s no positive aspects to it. Every character is extremely annoying, there’s an inane and completely pointless subplot and is about 45 minutes too long.

There aren’t any characters in this film that make it worth sitting through. Penny and her friends are essentially caricatures of mid-2000s teenage girls in the way that a bitter old lady would see them. Oscar is the overprotective dad, as seen in many other shows, but those other shows will eventually shut that father up and let him listen. Here, he’s just so overblown that it just trails off into babbling moron with no good qualities. Trudy, the mom, might seem like she’s an ok character, but she’s essentially useless and Suga Mama is… a creepy, perpetually angry and horny old lady (You know… for kids).

There’s also a subplot consisting of Penny trying to be a backup dancer for this 50 Cent knockoff called 15 Cent. Problem is that it’s just pointless and doesn’t really go anywhere. It might have connections to the main plot, including a tie in at the end, but it could have been eliminated and have the first part mentioned at the beginning and then show up at the end. That would not only have made the movie shorter, but better.

Slipping into first person for a second, I’d like to say that this film is so bad, that it made me want to avoid the show that it was a finale for. Even if I somehow watch every film and television show ever made (which will never happen), I would still actively avoid it.

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