Teen queen Lizzie McGuire grows up a bit and hits the big screen in this comedy drama, based on the popular Disney Network series. 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. Eager to celebrate their new maturity as high school students, Lizzie and her pals hope to live it up in one of Europe's most fabled cities, but fate has something more spectacular in store for Lizzie. Lizzie discovers that she bears a striking resemblance to Isabella, an Italian teen-pop idol famous for her duets with heart-throb Paolo -- so much so that when Paolo and Isabella have a falling out, he asks Lizzie to take Isabella's place for an upcoming concert. Lizzie, however, isn't sure she feels comfortable stepping into the spotlight, and is even less sure about the way she feels about Paolo, who makes no secret of his infatuation with her. Things don't get any simpler for Lizzie when ...
Written by
Rachel Barlow
Plot Synopsis:
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At her junior high graduation Lizzie McGuire (Hilary Duff) is forced to make a speech in place of the class president, Margaret Chan, where she trips over the backdrop onstage, bringing down the curtain on everyone on stage. Subsequently, this footage was secretly sent in to "Good Morning America" by her younger brother, although it was made more popular internationally by CNN. She and her friends then leave on a class trip to Rome accompanied by her rude and strict new high school teacher Miss Ungermeyer (Alex Borstein) and her class enemy (and ex-best friend) Kate Sanders.

After discovering she is sharing a room with Kate, Miss Ungermeyer takes them to the famous Trevi Fountain where Lizzie throws a coin into the water, for good luck after. Several minutes later, she meets the famous European pop star Paolo (Yani Gellman) who exclaims that Lizzie looks just like his partner-for-singing/ex-girlfriend Isabella. Paolo promises to be at the Trevi Fountain the next day, if Lizzie wishes to see him again. The next day, Lizzie pretends to be sick (the doctor believes that she is sick, because he had seen her embarrassing moment on stage on CNN, convinced that her nervous system collapsed under humiliation), and sneaks off to meet Paolo. She has gone off to a drive with Paolo, and agrees to present an award with Paolo as Isabella, to prevent Isabella from being sued (Paolo supposedly writes all the music, and Isabella lip-synchs). Later, Lizzie discovers that she also has to lip-synch "What Dreams Are Made Of", but agrees to do that too. Kate finds out the truth but helps Lizzie instead of betraying her.

Lizzie continues to pretend to be sick while making the dress she is going to wear for the show. Just when her scheme is about to be discovered, Gordo sacrifices himself, tells Miss Ungermeyer that Gordo was the one sneaking out, and gets kicked off the trip. Just as he's about to board the plane home, he sees the real Isabella (Hilary Duff) at the airport and discovers the truth about Paolo. Gordo and Isabella race to the music event to stop Paolo from making a fool of Lizzie on stage. Paolo's plan was to show the world that Isabella could not sing; ironically, it turns out that Paolo was the bad singer and lip-synched while performing. Isabella and Gordo pull the plug on Paolo's mic, exposing him, and Lizzie ends up singing "What Dreams are Made of" (the "theme song" of the film) in front of the huge audience inside the Coliseum with her parents and Matt (who came to Rome because the mom and dad missed Lizzie).

Later at the hotel, Paolo's now ex-bodyguard Sergei has formed a new relationship with the high school principal, Ms. Ungermeyer. Ms. Ungermeyer is informed the truth about sneaking off from Lizzie, and Gordo earns her respect as a loyal friend to Lizzie. Lizzie and Gordo sneak away for the last time from the after party to go up to the roof to talk. Gordo reassures Lizzie that things will be just as good when they go back home and that he always believed in her. Then, Lizzie kisses him and thanks him. Then, both of them return to the after party because they cannot afford getting into more trouble as we see fireworks spell out the words "The End".

Source: Wikipedia, The Lizzie McGuire Movie

Isabella Parigi's singing voice is by Haylie Duff, Hilary Duff's sister, dubbing over her sister's voice.
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Both Lizzie (Elizabeth) and Isabella are European translations of the Hebrew name Elisheva, which means "God is my oath."
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Mr. Escobar jokes that the class president contracted the Ebola virus. The first Ebola outbreak in America occurred 11 years after the release of this film.
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Despite serving as the canonical ending of the Lizzie McGuire (2001) series, with the main characters graduating middle school, new episodes of the series continued to air for almost a year after the release of the film.
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The first theatrical film based on a Disney Channel original series
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Lalaine was offered to reprise her role as Miranda for the movie, but she turned it down to pursue her music career.
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Disney's fourth theatrical movie based on a Disney show. The previous films being DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990), A Goofy Movie (1995) and Recess: School's Out (2001).
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Aside from a sequel to the film, Disney planned a second show that will focus on Lizzie's adventures in high school. However, just a month after the film is released, negotiations fell through, as confirmed by Hilary's mother, Susan Duff, through Entertainment Weekly. "Disney thought they'd be able to bully us into accepting whatever offer they wanted to make, and they couldn't. We walked away from a sequel. They walked away from a franchise." Duff was also supposed to get a $500,000 bonus if the movie made $50 million.
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Kate Sanders' best friend Claire Miller doesn't appear in the movie; although she is a regular character in the TV series.
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Animated Lizzie ends the film Tinker Bell style that generally has been used in Disney Media over the years.
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At graduation, Kate shames Lizzie for wearing the same dress she apparently wore to the spring fling. However, in the Lizzie McGuire TV series, Lizzie was banned from attending this dance.
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When Ms. Ungermeyer is telling the kids about the Trevi Fountain, she tells them it took 100 years to build. It only took 23 years.
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Ethan says that the streets of Rome were ruining his skateboard wheels, so he switched to a pair of 'Birdhouse Pterodactyls.' The Birdhouse Tony Hawk Pterodactyl is a model of skateboard, not wheels.
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At the beginning of Lizzie's performance at the award show, there is no glitter on her stomach. Midway through she has glitter.
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At the awards show performance, in the close shots of the audience, the audience members are clearly sitting in rows of benches that rise as they go further back. In the larger shots of a massive audience there are no benches, just a "sea" of fans.
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At the award show when Lizzie is getting ready to sing, the sound person goes down the stairs twice.
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When Ms. U is going to check on everybody and goes into Ethan's room she goes into room 102 when they have been in room 103 the whole time, she comes out of room 103 though on both the opposite and wrong side of the hallway.
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When Lizzie is at the airport with her family, she has her pants rolled up at the bottom. When she runs away from them, they are no longer rolled (visible in full screen only).
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When Lizzie says goodbye to her mom the second time, her braid switches from being in front of her shoulders to behind her shoulders.
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When Lizzie has her headphones on her neck while talking to Gordo, the left headphone alternates from being sidewards to being flat on her chest.
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During the final performance, the backup dancers were obviously choreographed to dance with only one lead singer although the number was supposed to be a duet for Isabella and Paulo.
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In the first shot of Lizzie riding the scooter through Rome with Paolo, the camera truck is reflected in her helmet.
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The German airline Lufthansa has no direct flights to Italy from the USA.
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When Lizzie tries on the dress that has the electric light wrapping around her the plug / outlet is clearly the type that is used in the USA 2 prong with one ground. In Italy they use 220 volt outlets which are round with 2 holes on either side.
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The award show at the end of the movie takes place in the Roman Coliseum. The Coliseum has only 1/7 of its floor covered by a sand-covered wooden deck and there is seating for only about 700 people. Also the Coliseum is only 35% accessible and people have not been allowed at the top of it in 1500 years. So there could not be such a massive stage and audience in the Coliseum.
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A couple of the characters in Rome state that the graduation fiasco was on CNN and other news networks. If Lizzie was on the news in Rome, wouldn't people recognize her and know she's not Isabella?
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Gordon tries to cover up for Lizzie throughout the movie. Near the end, Gordon tells Mrs. Ungermeyer that he was the one sneaking around. Gordon was with the field trip the whole time, so how could Mrs. Ungermeyer believe that Gordon was sneaking?
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The character of "Kate" is considered to be the most popular girl in school. However, at the time of the films release (2003), dressing like the first lady in the 1980s was not considered popular.
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When Paolo and Lizzie go to Franca's place to choose a dress, Lizzie tries on a dress that has a magazine cover for a hat. The magazine is the edition that Gordo has just seen the two girls reading with Lizzie on the cover. But when he shows Lizzie the magazine when she gets back to the hotel, she looks astounded that she is on the front cover of a magazine, but wouldn't she have already seen it (when she was at Franca's) before Gordo shows it to her?
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When Lizzie and Paolo run up to watch the fireworks, you can see their tape marks on the ground.
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The plane lands in Rome at dusk, but when they get to the hotel and into their rooms the sun is already rising.
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