1/2/2024 0 Comments Unplugged movie review![]() Having an original soundtrack is commendable, even if this one is just average. ![]() The camera work is professional and the video and sound quality are as they should be. The production of Grace Unplugged is really not that bad. Little does she know about the world she has opened herself up to by going against the wishes of her parents in order to chase fame. Seeing her chance to escape, she markets herself to his agent and lands herself the opportunity she has been waiting for. But when her father is faced with a chance to return to his glory days as a rock and roll star, Grace is shocked when he turns down his old agent. What’s more, she feels like her father protects her too much and thus rebels against his boundaries. ![]() "I may be Silicon Valley's Number One Spoiled Brat, but I know right then and there I'm out of my league.Grace Trey, desperate to make a name for herself in the music industry, feels stifled in the small town that contains the small church her father is the music minister of. If you haven't found a place for wellness within you, it's because we have not yet shown you the path.' I totally understand if you have to kick me out.' "Getting myself bounced from the Swamp Gas Hilton isn't a joke it's a sacred quest. Like here, where Jett's just engineered a pedal boat accident to get himself thrown out of the resort, only to discover that the New-Agey founder is no pushover: It's a fast, fun read in which characters often have to change course when things don't go as planned. When he joins forces with the other kids to protect a baby lizard, things get complicated. Young Jett may be Unplugged, but as a true hacker, he lives to overcome limitations. Gordon Korman's novel finds a bratty Silicon Valley boy exiled for his misdeeds to a wellness resort in the wilds of Arkansas, with no tech devices allowed and the mantra "Be Whole" front and center. ![]() With chapters narrated by the various kids, wild events are soon to follow. Also, he's the first of many hints that all might not be quite as Whole as it seems at the wellness resort. And when Grace - the truest of true believers - adopts what she thinks is a poor helpless baby lizard, when pets are as much against the rules as satellite phones, bitey little Needles brings together an unlikely support team. Jett's plans to make the place too hot to hold him don't go quite as planned - but they do shake things up with the other kids who, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, are also sharing the Oasis experience. With him is Matt, an adult employee of his dad who signed on to write code but found himself in charge of Jett and keeping him under close supervision. (Dad's a computer genius who invented practically everything and got rich Mom runs Orthodontists Without Borders, which keeps her away from home a lot.) Lacking neither brains nor resources, he's always found plenty of ways to get into trouble and bedevil his keepers, but when his prank with a drone shuts down air traffic at San Francisco Airport, his absent dad packs him off to the Oasis - a wellness resort in the wilds of Arkansas whose guests are required to surrender all their electronics on arrival. Loathed by every adult supervisor in Silicon Valley, 12-year-old Jett, soon to become UNPLUGGED, never sees his wealthy, overachieving parents. Amid a fair amount of butt and poop humor, as well as burglary, boat-stealing, black-market candy-bar sales, and other misdeeds in a good cause, there are strong messages of friendship, teamwork, standing up for what's right, and being able to change your mind and make things right when you learn new facts. Goons capture the kids and briefly hold them prisoner. A villain is using mind control to get money, and also raising captive alligators to kill them for profit. As often happens in Korman books, the main character meets a bunch of other kids (all with issues and minds of their own), alliances are forged, and skullduggery is uncovered. This one involves the adventures of 12-year-old Jett, son of two overachieving Silicon Valley parents he never sees, who gets sent to a remote wellness retreat with no internet, no nothing, as punishment for his latest prank (a drone that shut down the San Francisco Airport). Parents need to know that Unplugged is another fast-moving foray into tween mayhem by best-selling author Gordon Korman.
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