Cleo, played by Rowan Blanchard, is the younger sister
in the family and everyone pretty much ignores her. She’s gotten used to being
the invisible one, living in the shadow of her more popular older sister Molly,
played by Paris Berelc. Cleo even feels like her parents ignore her.
On Halloween Friday, Cleo’s science experiment goes
wrong, and Cleo accidentally makes Molly invisible. Since Molly has an agenda
at School, Cleo dresses up in Molly’s costume and takes her place, the whole
time hoping she can find out how to undo her experiment. What might the sisters
learn about each other during the duration?
No, the movie isn’t original. Baker admitted, “I could
pretty much see most of the plot complications coming early on. This is especially true if you’ve seen Freaky
Friday. And yet, I had a blast watching
it because I was having fun. I really
did like Cleo and Molly and found it easy to root for them to succeed.” There were
some fun moments and a lot of laughs during the duration to the climax, and the
quieter character moments worked just as well.
Baker said, “In fact, I was very impressed with the
fact that Molly wasn’t a jerk. I kind of
expected her to be before I started watching the movie, but she was actually
pretty nice. I’d say that how both
sisters started out was in part thanks to their own actions, something that
they realized over the course of the movie, and an element of the film I really
appreciated.”
The film’s cast was of current Disney Channel stars.
Baker said, “I can’t tell you what shows they are all in, but I do recognize
them from various previews. The acting
was a bit over the top at times, but for the most part it worked and never
threw me out of the movie.” Yes, Rowan was toned down from her performance on “Girl
Meets World.” (Baker credited, “Yes, I think she’s perfect as Riley, but this
isn’t as frantic.”)
The effects were very well done. Baker said, “Since
one of the characters is pretty much invisible for most of the film, there are
lots of effects, and I bought all but one or two of them. The one thing that tripped me up is that,
while the characters can’t see Molly, sometimes we can, so we can see her
reactions to things. That took me a
little while to get used to, but once I did, I didn’t mind it.”
If you have pre-teens, they’ll enjoy this movie. And
if you give “Invisible Sister,” released in 2015, a chance, you just might find
yourself enjoying it too.
I found myself liking this movie just fine. That’s
probably because I was watching “Girl Meets World” around the time this
premiered on TV and I actually thought Rowan Blanchard was great as Riley on
that show. This film is no exception because I think this film has some nice
moments in there that people can get into. Check it out and see for yourself.
Later today I will be reviewing a film that I saw last
night.
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