Review of Let It Shine (2012) by Kevin R — 09 Nov 2018

BEST DISNEY CHANNEL ORIGINAL MOVIE EVER. This is surprisingly such a great movie! I love Let It Shine! The cast is great and the acting is great! It's funny that Trevor Jackson is in this movie and he played a character that was a musical fraud just like how he played another musical fraud in one episode of Austin & Ally (which is a terrible show, by the way) named "T-Fame" who stole one of Austin Moon's songs and became an instant hit with fans.

In this one, he plays a character named "Kris" who was assumed to be a rapper named "Truth" by his and Cyrus' childhood crush named "Roxanne". She listened to the hip hop songs performed by Cyrus (played by the wonderful, charismatic, and talented Tyler James Williams) and assumed that Kris was the one who was rapping those songs because he was always considered the "cool guy" out of him and his best friend, Cyrus.

Cyrus was considered to be the "nerdy guy". Cyrus is really the main character and the musical artist "Truth" behind those songs. So Cyrus lets his best friend Kris take the spotlight for him and allows him to pretend to be Truth for Roxanne.

Cyrus has a religious dad who is a preacher/pastor who is an extremely devoted Christian and doesn't like hip hop because he assumes that hip hop songs typically have curse words in them, and he doesn't realize that his son, Cyrus, secretly hangs out at a rap club every night.

So as Cyrus' best friend Kris poses as Cyrus' musical alter ego "Truth". Eventually Kris could take the hypocrisy and Cyrus in the final act of the film revealed himself as Truth to Roxanne.