Going through and watching all the Disney Channel original movies in order and this one was up next. Even though I am about the same age as the kids in the movie during that time, I would say nothing about this movie was relatable or realistic. We only know the most surface things about the characters and there us very little character development or conflict. It was fun seeing some familiar faces in this movie, especially a baby teen kaley cuoco (sp?)! Though her acting, along with everyone else's, was pretty dreadful. This felt super low budget and is totally a forgettable and predictable movie.

The basic idea is solid. Geeks in a bowling club have to save the schools reputation in a long held feud. Top jock was signed up in the club as a joke. Geeks and Jock bicker, then get along. All fine. The script is clunky, some of the acting is dreadful, but one of the worst things is the bowling. People who have never bowled before in thier lives are throwing like pro's and getting 8's or strikes. Not one gutterball. The worst thing though is the preaching. It's so very everyone can just get along. I expected them to start throwing thier arms around each other and singing. Really awful.

Next on the Disney Plus run though, a 2000 made for TV movie "Alley Cats Strike". I approached it hoping for a MST3K style experience to mock, but unfortunately it was just "mostly rubbish" as opposed to entertainingly awful.

Two high schools are about to be combined into one, so this year marks the last time that the rivals will compete for the "Mighty Apple" trophy. Having arrived at a tie, the rules determine that 10 pin bowling will be the deciding sport. West Appleton's school team is made up of Alex Thompson (Kyle Schmid) and his friends, who eschew high school popularity in favour of ironic appreciation of the retro 50's vibe of his fathers bowling alley. But the new profile, and the inclusion of team Captain Todd McLemore (Robert Ri'chard) in their circle has Alex questioning who he is.

Even for a Disney TV movie, the performances here are pretty rubbish. Though many of them are still working, there's a terrible stagey feel about almost all the kids. They are, admittedly, not helped by some truly awful ADR work that plagues the film. There are two actors I recognised in this; perennial good guy Matt McCoy plays Alex's father - the owner of the struggling bowling alley that he and his friends frequent. But, perhaps the most interesting reason to watch it, a young Kaley Cuoco plays Elisa, one of Alex's friends and another bowling aficionado. Interesting as though it is, there isn't really anything in her performance that I thought singled her out for stardom in the future.

It's a run of the mill teenage sports movie, that doesn't really attempt anything too interesting or exciting and there's not really much to recommend it for.