Beneath the candy-colored wigs is a truthful, down-to-earth and kind non-superstar person and behind the motley gingerbread concert pieces is a journey that makes up for a poignantly engrossing story. The latter is an inch more believable than the former, but there is something in Katy Perry: Part Of Me that juices out emotion though obvious exaggeration floats by.
Entirely (and obviously) constructed as a self-promotion film (Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber already made the same move, but never came close to Part Of Me's effects), it traces the 2011 life of I Kissed a Girl singer Katy Perry in her slow-paced and troubled plight to stardom. Respective reality TV producers of Project Runway and Top Chef (Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz, they're directing the film) should have added some of their nifty in the film to have it come out with these resulting results. There's no wonders in the end, though, what would you expect from the founders of reality shows that runs more or less ten seasons per?
Apparently, Perry was a former gospel singer from Nashville who went to LA to see what's in store for her. Her family's background, as much as cinematic as they may appear, adds to the story as she tries to break out from their very conservative traditions, hence cream-spurting bras and firecracker-loaded boobs to catchy tunes like California Ghurls and Firework. Until we are talking about the ground-shaking breakup of her with Brit-playboy-comedian Russel Brand, the movie drastically waned of authenticity and audacity. The swift sniffing and weeping of Perry didn't feel much as candid as everything else in the film. The hyperbolic handling (especially clear in the later parts) amalgams with the one-side divorce story that ultimately frizzles the movie.
While all puffy and hyperbolic, Katy Perry 3D does what it intends to do: to have us meet with the Teenage Dream singer. She's the kind and warmhearted, feet-on-the-ground dorky girl and she's the young woman living the star's dream. She could be any of them, but who cares, really? She's as much fun as we didn't knew her in-depth. B-
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