“Britney Ever After” (*1/2 out of four) was a toxic Lifetime biography of Britney Spears (Natasha Bassett) showing her meteoric rise to worldwide stardom to her heavily publicized breakdown and subsequent comeback. Hard though it is to encompass Spears’ whole life into an hour-and-a-half, film features numerous unnecessary and unconvincing scenes which may or may not have happened and is jumbled in its structure. Bassett looks a little like Spears and does what she can with the feeble script and direction. Spears declined to participate in film’s production which explains the complete absence of any of her music and film doesn’t end as much as stop. After this and Aaliyah and Whitney’s movies, Lifetime may want to swear off music biographies before they “do it again.”

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