Britney Baby, One More Time

Oops, someone did it again: made a bad, bad movie that the filmmakers desperately hope you'll see as a sort of cultish, underground kind of thing and forgive its many, many flaws. But that's not gonna happen. Cheaply made and badly-acted, this is a disaster from start to finish, an embarrassingly awful film in which a male Britney Spears impersonator (played by Robert Stephens) and a clueless filmmaker (played by Mark Borchardt of American Movie infamy) hit the road from Milwaukee to New Orleans, faking news/PR events--Britney Saves Child From Car Crash! Britney Sings National Anthem!--and winning the hearts of morons everywhere. Honestly, Stephens looks and sounds nothing like Spears (is that part of a joke I'm just not getting?). This pseudo-fake-documentary is based, apparently, on a true story, and yet has nothing at all to tell us about obsession with celebrity, corruption in journalism, or anything else the film is putatively about. Not recommended. (M. Johanson)