Since we had a few hours to kill before the Cowboys game started, Lisa and I decided to watch a movie.  I wanted a love story.  She wanted something with dancing.  We settled on Sidelined 2.

Sidelined 2 picks up where the first Sidelined ended.  Drayton (Noah Beck) is the starting quarterback at USC, even though he’s only a freshman and he’s really scrawny for a football player.  (All of the football players in this movie looked too scrawny to be playing for a top-ranked program.)  Dallas (Siena Agudong) is studying dance at Cal Arts and trying to figure out how to pay for her semester after she learns her scholarship won’t cover everything.

They’re in love but they still struggle because they’re going to different schools and they both have to figure out how to balance their relationship with all of their other responsibilities.  Drayton tears his ACL and becomes bitter.  Dallas gets a job at a coffeehouse and her boss has really messy bangs and keeps singing songs on his guitar.   Dallas and Drayton realizes that there are other possibilities out there.  Will their relationship last?

I thought the first Sidelined was cute for what it was.  The second one was pretty boring and whatever charm the two leads had in the first film disappeared during the sequel.  Drayton’s not much of a boyfriend, even before he ruins his knee.  Dallas says she’s never even been to Dallas, which is weird.  If I was named after a city, I would visit.  It’s a Wattpad movie and all of the dialogue sounds like it was written by an AI that had been programmed to try to sound young by dropping random slang.  Drayton asks Dallas if she’s “hangry.”  Lisa made me go back three times to make sure he actually said that.

James Van Der Beek comes back for five minutes.  He used to be the teenager with a dream.  Now, he’s playing the father of a teenager with a dream.  Feel old, yet?