Lift Me Up (2015) Reviews

• I love this film

  matthewjaaa2017-08-20

  This film is so inspirational, because firstly, I'm not sure if someone found the message of the film, but I think the message of this film is that whenever life gets you down, you can still get up off of the ground and fight back with whatever you have left. Secondly, I think that there should be more movies like this, because they can inspire you to do what you want to do in life, for example this movie is all about dancing and so if you want to become a dancer or even a ballerina, you can do that even if someone is watching you and laughing at you, you just need to ignore what others think and just continue what you are doing.

• Communicating grief

  bkoganbing2017-02-16

  Lift Me Up tells the story of young Sarah Frangenberg who has just lost her mother in a car accident. Mom was the glue that held that family together as she and her Marine Corps sergeant stepdad Todd Cohoon don't really get along all that well. Both are grieving, neither seems to communicate the grief to the other. She's concentrating on her goal of a dance career, but seems lost and not putting her all into her work. In addition she's targeted by some of the school's upper crust mean girls for reasons I can't quite figure out. Shane Harper is in this and for the life of me I can't figure out how they didn't use him in any of the dancing for that is what he does. A good performance is that of Chris Browning as Sarah's real dad whom she goes to live with, but finds out soon enough they're not a good fit. Average teen drama, nothing special but for the dance.

• Waste of time

  elinel92017-02-01

  Just a serious waste of time. Kind of disrespectful with a bad try to make it 'funny'. Have a fight about throwing away all of the stuff of the dead mother and then follow it up with some funny music and a try to be funny. Hit a girl because she's bullied and then straight afterwords some teenage drama rant of a girl, who clearly can't act, about her best friends. I seriously just don't understand this movie and the whole point they try to make. It's like a mix between cyberbully (or some other drama) and mean girls (the 2nd one, supposed to be funny) or some other high school chick flick. Bad movie. Bad acting. Bad advertisement for Kit Kat. Only the main character, Sarah Frangenberg, made it sort of watchable. She did good and was one of the only realistic characters.

• I saw this on Netflix! lol, it looked like a good premise...

  juanmuscle2018-10-18

  And no, I'm not going to sit here and nit pick on IMDB about the bits that I didn't like and rather use the time to speak on what it did that I thought was pretty cool, firstly, it was an interesting premise, would of made a nice novella with a lot of plot and lot of dialogue and all that, it is hard again to wrap up everything that actually in real life needs its own healthy very thorough timeline but here we have to do with limited time, again, it is very difficult to, that is there are very few writers that can take a long timeline and make it flow seamlessly in a script medium, but here they it felt like perhaps a month went by and everything was wrapped up rather nicely I think, mostly because you get a sense that things are not really wrapped up but its headed in the right direction whatever that means, lol. But it was interesting, very nice, I thought he was going to buy her a car as a sort of letting go of his whole driving anxiety problem, but I guess that might be in the future he is not quite there yet. lol, this was interesting, I loved how they brought the tall Clark Kent looking young guy's table set back into another scene later on, it was cool.