![]() The punky, rebellious streak Cyrus has shown by losing her locks is nowhere to be found in So Undercover, an unadventurous vehicle that's in desperate need of some original wit and spark. From the by-the-numbers direction to the strained one-liners, everything about it feels small screen. The film has been released in theatres of only 13 countries. Starring Miley Cyrus, Jeremy Piven, and Mike O'Malley, the film was released for the first time in the United Arab Emirates on Septemand released direct-to-video in the United States on February 5, 2013. ![]() That the movie is slated for a straight-to-DVD release in the US next year is probably indicative of its cinematic potential. So Undercover is a 2012 American action-comedy film directed by Tom Vaughan and written by Allan Loeb and Steven Pearl. The film's perky, bubblegum tone gets an abrupt shake with few swear words, while a gag at the expense of the French - the only one in the film that's vaguely amusing - will likely fly over the heads of the target audience. So Undercover also struggles by trying to serve Cyrus's tween fans while attempting to be a bit edgy. It's hardly an acting stretch for the leading lady, who's yet to really test herself since waving goodbye to her signature Hannah Montana role. Outside of that and her more fashionable attire, though, there's barely a difference between the two personas. Excruciating phrases like "amazeballs" are thrown around with gleeful abandon as the movie casually chugs along hitting every clichéd plot twist going.Ĭyrus plays the lead as a tough cookie teen, injecting a little artificial ditziness to her college-going alter ego. Outside of the girls' house, there's a love interest for Molly in the form of Revenge's Josh Bowman.īilled as an action-comedy, So Undercover suffers by virtue of having little in the way of action set-pieces, and even less when it comes to laughs. Her sisters include Alex (Lauren McKnight), the girl Molly has to survey, entitled princess Sasha (Eloise Mumford) and smart-mouthed roommate Becky (Kelly Osbourne). The scenes at said college are filmed at none other than Tulane, with many moments in the beautiful A-quad including some shots of our much-missed bead tree. In a whirlwind makeover by a camp hair stylist and hipster fashionista (both, bizarrely, on the FBI payroll!) she's remade as Brooke Stonebridge, the latest inductee to Kappa Kappa Zeta house. Starring Miley Cyrus, So Undercover is a hilarious movie from 2012 in which her character Molly, a private investigator, goes undercover for the FBI as a sorority girl in college. Her skills at photographing cheating spouses catch the eye of FBI agent Armon (Jeremy Piven), who hires her to go undercover at a sorority to protect a girl whose father is about to testify against mobsters. Here, riffing on Miss Congeniality, Cyrus plays Molly, a teen working as a private eye to cover her dad's gambling debts. Miley Cyrus made a name for herself on the small screen in the dual role of Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana, and she's pulling double time again in comedy So Undercover.
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