Avalon High

2011
5.6| 1h31m| G| en| More Info
Released: 28 January 2011 Released
Producted By: Jaffe/Braunstein Films
Country: United States of America
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Elaine "Ellie" Harrison has just moved from Minnesota to Annapolis, Maryland while her parents take a year-long sabbatical to continue their medieval studies in nearby Washington D.C. Her new high school, Avalon High, seems like a typical high school with the stereotypical students: Lance the jock, Jennifer the cheerleader, Marco, the bad boy/desperado, and Will, the senior class president, quarterback, and all around good guy. But not everyone at Avalon High is who they appear to be, not even Ellie herself. Eventually, it becomes apparent that Avalon High is a situation where the ancient Arthurian legend is repeating itself.

Genre

Fantasy, Drama, Family

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Director

Stuart Gillard

Production Companies

Jaffe/Braunstein Films

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Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Portia Hilton Blistering performances.
morganmichel1234 ever since High School Musical came out on Disney Channel, Disney has been trying for many years to make anything close to it. but i have to say, this movie was surprisingly good compared to what has been attempted before. other movies have been no more than hectic clichés and very sad, cheesy story lines. This one, not only being a very different story line, did not contain cheesy or bad acting or story line. i thoroughly enjoyed this one and although it didn't come close to HSM, it was very well done :) a message to other reviewers, please, if you don't like a movie, by all means, share your thoughts and feelings but in a civilized way. sometimes some of you can be to harsh. its not wrong to dislike something, but just try be a little more polite when stating what is wrong with it :) thanks :)
KittyCat33 I must admit, I do love a good Disney movie and this was a decent enough Disney movie. However, I am also a big fan of Meg Cabot's book and I don't agree with Disney changing what would have been a perfectly good script. In the book, everything lines up with the Arthurian legend; Will is King Arthur, Marco is Mordred etc. In the film, however, Allie is King Arthur (which is meant to be a "surprise plot twist" but actually doesn't make any sense), Marco is only pretending to be bad (because after all folks it is a kids movie) and Will character isn't part of the legend at all. It would appear that Disney were trying to give the movie a feminist slant, going for the 'girls can do everything boys can do" attitude (evident when the teacher, Mr Moore who is Mordred in the movie, says "King Arthur can't be a girl"). However, by doing this the story, especially the love triangle between Lance (Lancelot), Jennifer (Guinevere) and Will makes absolutely NO SENSE. I don't think that Disney realised that the original plot in the book does actually give great credence to Ellie, not Allie. Ellie is the Lady of the Lake, the women that gives King Arthur Excalibur and who protects him. Arthur would be nothing without the Lady of the Lake and so the plot as is was pretty feminist already. In my opinion, Disney's changes were silly, poorly thought out and entirely unnecessary. In saying that I did enjoy the first hour of the film and found the character of Miles (Merlin) to be a great addition. Overall, I think the film is good but with such significant changes made to the plot and the ending, I do not think Disney should of marketed this as a adaptation of the book. It would have been better as a stand alone TV movie.
dory23011993 Background Allie Pennington portrayed by Britt Robertson starts a new school named Avalon High. Her parents are authors of Medieval Literature. She meets a boy named Will Wagner. The class is studying Arthurian History. Allie Pennington comes across a prophecy named the order of the bears.Review Do not miss this epic adventure of a film. Grab your horses and see this film to see Gregg Sulkin playing a character. He is a London born actor and he has played many film roles and used his British accent. You can tell that he has tried to cover the accent up but there are times where you can hear the English accent come out. He is a great actor and portrays Will Wagner as an amazing character.Watch out for all the actors and actresses giving a great performance. Also look out for a great twist in the story.
starxxgirl I've read the book and I just saw the movie and pretty much the only character they got right were Jen and Lance. Mr. Moore was supposed to be Merlin, Marco was supposed to be Mordrid (I don't even know was he's supposed to be in the movie) Ellie was supposed to be The Lady of the Lake (no one had that part in the movie), Will was supposed to be King Arthur and there was no Miles. The mismatch of the characters almost completely destroyed the movie for me. It was a good movie, but if they had just gotten the characters right, it would have been a LOT better. I don't see why when a book turns into a movie, a LOT of things have to change, it usually ruins the movie.