'Cloud 9'

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Originally published January 25, 2022

The Disney Channel Original Movie "Cloud 9" is one of the worst winter sports movies in the history of winter sports movies. The movie was rated 4.6/5 star audience rating. Starring Dove Cameron and Luke Benward. The movie is about a girl who frequently snowboards is forced to train with a guy, an ex-champion of the sport, after an unexpected event. However, she has to prove to him that she is a true professional, with a slight bit of romance.

Now putting the statistics aside I personally believe the movie is terrible. It’s just another Disney low-budget film they put out just because they can. They honestly put no time and effort into the movie. The plot is okay… besides the romance like come on I’m confused here about what’s going on. The jokes are not even funny with extremely dry humor.

The main character Kayla Morgan is rich, somewhat humble, and given everything she asks for with daddy’s money. The movie starts off with her showing off her impressive tricks and getting good ratings from all of the judges. After that, it shows off Luke Benward’s character, Will Cloud doing his daily job at working his mom’s dog business. It reveals that Will used to snowboard but apparently at this point of the movie he wants to move on from snowboarding. A few minutes later while Will is giving a tour of the mountain to one of the dogs, Will’s friends Dink and Sam catch him and try to convince him to try snowboarding on their team once again. However, he ultimately refuses.

Will and Kayla meet due to the fact that she and the swift team were goofing off with the dog sled and ended up breaking the resort sign and the sled in the process. She is then forced to work at Will’s place of work. While working she gets a voicemail saying she has kicked been off the team due to breaking the rules.

She also finds out that the only reason she is really “good” at snowboarding is that all of her matches have been rigged. So it reveals that she is not as good as she wants to believe. So you can basically foreshadow what the rest of the movie is going to be about. Will, the former champion and incredibly good snowboarder, will now train the formerly impressive snowboarding girl Kayla and then fall in love with her in the process.

"'Cloud 9' is one of those forgotten movies. it had potential but fell flat. it's missing some key elements that make me fall in love with Disney movies," brookennichole-98054 said on the IMDb website. They rated the movie 5/10 stars. This is the most honest review of the movie that I have seen. Every other review you could tell was fake and just a straight-up lie.