Board Thread:Social/@comment-4146635-20150214164549/@comment-25375217-20150214172440

I was going to just leave it at "I despise it" but then you dared to say that it was good and that people who hate it have no basis to hate it, so here goes.

Reasons to hate TBM:
 * Disney Channel literally advertised it for an entire year, making it virtually impossible to avoid it, whereas actual tolerable movies got two or three months tops advertising.
 * So many scenes were dedicated to showing off heartthrobs such as Garrett Clayton and Ross Lynch (there are so many other ways to introduce the fact that they were in a movie, why did we need a scene dedicated to Garrett Clayton and his surfer buddies dancing around shirtless)
 * Ross Lynch
 * The supposed "moral" of the story is that if you want to tell your elders that their ideas are stupid and you want to do what you want, go ahead and disobey the lifeguards and ride on a massive wave in the middle of the storm if you want, everyone will cheer for you when you're done. (well, they advertise it as "follow your heart", but that's not what Mack did.)
 * Brady's character was awful, he claims that there's only one girl for him and that he loves Mack so much, yet throughout the entire movie he's almost flirting with Lela more than she's flirting with him, among other things (such as the biker girl kissing him on the cheek). It honestly feels like Brady was written because 1) Ross Lynch needed a movie and 2) if Mack didn't have a boyfriend there would be no third performance of Meant to Be
 * The songs are evilly catchy (well, evil might be a stretch, and the problem here is that I hate the movie itself and the songs are like the catchiest DCOM songs ever so I get them stuck in my head regularly, (coughlikemecough) so really it's more of a pro than a con.)
 * There were three performances of Meant to Be, which is completely unnecessary, besides the fact that the song is basically telling kids that a crush is the same thing as true love