Let It Shine

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Ron S Nov 9, 2018 BEST DISNEY CHANNEL ORIGINAL MOVIE EVER. This is surprisingly such a great movie! I love Let It Shine! The cast is great and the acting is great! It's funny that Trevor Jackson is in this movie and he played a character that was a musical fraud just like how he played another musical fraud in one episode of Austin & Ally (which is a terrible show, by the way) named "T-Fame" who stole one of Austin Moon's songs and became an instant hit with fans. In this one, he plays a character named "Kris" who was assumed to be a rapper named "Truth" by his and Cyrus' childhood crush named "Roxanne". She listened to the hip hop songs performed by Cyrus (played by the wonderful, charismatic, and talented Tyler James Williams) and assumed that Kris was the one who was rapping those songs because he was always considered the "cool guy" out of him and his best friend, Cyrus. Cyrus was considered to be the "nerdy guy". Cyrus is really the main character and the musical artist "Truth" behind those songs. So Cyrus lets his best friend Kris take the spotlight for him and allows him to pretend to be Truth for Roxanne. Cyrus has a religious dad who is a preacher/pastor who is an extremely devoted Christian and doesn't like hip hop because he assumes that hip hop songs typically have curse words in them, and he doesn't realize that his son, Cyrus, secretly hangs out at a rap club every night. So as Cyrus' best friend Kris poses as Cyrus' musical alter ego "Truth". Eventually Kris could take the hypocrisy and Cyrus in the final act of the film revealed himself as Truth to Roxanne. See more

Theodore S Dec 13, 2017 This is a movie that a person of any age could watch and actually enjoy. It's considered a musical so of course it it has a lot of singing and rapping and depending on how many times you watch it, you will learn the songs and soon sing. The songs bring out the message of the story out in a fun and positive way. For example, there is a part in the movie where a song called " Don't run away" whichn is rapped by the main character,Cyrus is being played. The lyrics to the song go, " Don't run away, don't run away from the truth, cause i'm not giving up on you", and at this point Cyrus is writing this song for a crush he has and uses "The truth" as a symbol for who he is. The movie also has incorporated church into the storyline, so it definitely has a little church music in it as well. The title even comes from a gospel song/ negro spiritual. At the end of the movie the characters sing a spinoff of this song See more

Finn G Jun 19, 2017 Very easy to predict the story, as well as an unnecessary villain and a lot of plot conveniences. But Let It Shine is a lot better than it may sound. It doesn't beat you over the head with it's moral and has some great acting at points. Even the aforementioned villain has so much fun in his role. The movie has some low parts that you will be ready to end, but after the credits roll, I found this to be a much better experience than I expected. Maybe I'm somewhat bias, but if you think you'll enjoy, it's just enough for me to recommend. See more

Finn M Jun 6, 2017 its one of my favorite movies

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