Disney first announced that Duff would return for the reboot as the titular character during the D23 Expo convention in August. She has her dream job. She has kind of the perfect life right now. She has her dream apartment in Brooklyn. Shortly after sharing the big news, Duff spoke to PEOPLE and said despite playing Lizzie for years, she was nervous about revisiting the beloved character and getting back into her headspace.
It will revolve around McGuire as a grown up year-old millennial navigating life in New York City. Yoann Miarritze Pundit. Cirila Malik Pundit. Zenobia Winkel Pundit. How old is Lizzie McGuire now? She'll reprise her role of Lizzie for the coming Disney Plus series, where Lizzie will now be 30 years old and living in New York City. Gados Ocariz Pundit.
It is common knowledge that Hilary Duff played both Isabella and Lizzie in the movie , but what if I told you that she did not provide Isabella's singing voice. I guess the producers wanted to keep it all in the family because her singing voice was provided by none other than Hilary's older sister, Haylie Duff. Rangel Tagliapietra Teacher. Lizzie McGuire and her best friends Kate, Gordo, and Ethan have just graduated from middle school, and to celebrate, they're taking part in a class trip to Rome, Italy.
While at the Trevi Fountain, she wishes for an adventure, then promptly decides to ditch school and hop on the back of a cute Italian's Vespa. She later learns that the cute Italian is actually an international pop star, and also learns that she looks just like his pop star partner Isabella.
Where does the Lizzie McGuire Movie fit in timeline? Set after the conclusion of the series and her middle school graduation, the film follows Lizzie and her classmates going on a school trip to Rome, Italy. The movie was filmed on location at Rome, at locations such as the Trevi Fountain. She even captioned it with Isabella's scathing four-word drag from the movie: "Sing to me, Paolo.
Then, when his friends finally convince him to use it, he maxes it out trying to finance his own movie. This might be the most questionable episode of all, because Truly, how on earth and from where on earth does the offer even reach a year-old?
A pre-teen with no job getting a credit card is unrealistic, not to mention that pre-teen financing a film and working long hours every day without adult supervision. There's even a point when the pizza delivery driver takes the credit card and cuts it in half because it's been declined. This raises eyebrows for more reasons than one, primarily because no one would ever dare to do such a thing to someone else's property. Leading up to Gordo maxing out the card, at no point does anyone even question the amount that's being used or whether or not making the film is a thoughtful plan at all.
None of the adults explain responsible credit card use even for the benefit of kids in the audience , and we never learn how many of his purchases Gordo was able to return. The consequences of his reckless behavior aren't addressed ever again, and audiences are simply meant to suspend disbelief and assume that it all turned out well in the end.
If only real credit card debt were that easy to resolve. Gatekeeping isn't an idea that was discussed in the early s as much as it is today, but it's nonetheless present in multiple episodes of "Lizzie McGuire" when various characters want to be the only person to love or appreciate something. When Gordo is obsessed with Rat Pack's lounge lifestyle, he objects to other students joining on it and even gets angry at Lizzie and Miranda for making it into a "fad.
Even Gordo's obsession, "Dwarflord: The Conquest," is an extremely exclusive game limited to certain players. In the Halloween episode titled "Night of the Day of the Dead," Kate makes it clear that no one else can dress as Vampira, as that's the costume she's chosen, which forces Lizzie to wear a clown costume instead. It seems harmless to a degree, but when all instances — far greater in number than the ones listed here — are taken into consideration, the series seems to condone inadvertently robbing another person of their agency.
When Miranda Sanchez, Lizzie's best friend, suddenly disappears from multiple episodes, we're constantly told she's visiting her family in Mexico City. While speculation began stirring about whether or not it was the star Lalaine's choice to leave, whatever the case, the way the series handled her departure was incredibly unrealistic. At no point could a year-old just leave school to go on vacation for a long period of time without falling too far behind. Additionally, throughout multiple episodes that aren't even in chronological order , the narrative continually changes, creating a vexing plot hole no one at the time understood.
The early s had a habit of putting too much on a pre-teen character's plate, while never acknowledging legality issues or the fact that all their extracurriculars and shenanigans could prevent them from meeting the school's curriculum.
If Miranda wasn't meant to return and she didn't in the film , the writers should have given her the kind of closure that would allow audiences to know she'd be moving elsewhere. That way, they wouldn't have to come up with crazy fan theories , like the one that suggests Miranda was never even real.
The way the narrative bounced around was a disservice to both the character and the story. While spending time with family is important, it's certainly questionable that a teen, and Miranda Sanchez especially, would choose a family trip over a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel abroad with her friends.
While conversations surrounding feminine products are still somewhat taboo in mainstream media, especially in programs targeted toward younger audiences, the act of painting its subject matter as taboo is precisely what makes this storyline questionable. The bra issue itself isn't nearly as questionable as the episode's means of approaching it: It should have never been such a secretive issue that pre-teen girls would need bras.
Placing such awkward emphasis on a basic necessity contributes to the harmful narrative that women, especially young women, need to tread lightly around asking for what they want or need to get through everyday life. While a teen TV episode wouldn't necessarily include this type of arc in , it's still a questionable part of the series that demands discussion today. Why aren't the moms aware of their daughters' developing needs in the first place?
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