Aaliyah biopic on Lifetime is panned, You had to figure odds were that Lifetime's biopic Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B was not going to be good.
Months ago, the late pop singer's family clucked at the idea that Lifetime could pull the project off. The family refused to give the filmmakers the rights to use Aaliyah's music in the biopic.
Then, in the days leading up to the movie's debut, producers of the made-for-tv film, were defending it. Yes, before it even aired.
One day after the cable network aired it, the reviews poured in and the consensus seemed to be the movie is awful.
VH-1 declared the biopic should never have been made. It called the treatment of the life story of the pop singer who was killed in a plane crash "insulting."
Gawker pulled no punches either, calling the biopic "the laughing stock of the internet."
And Timbaland took to social media, and urged the Internet to band together and boycott the biopic. He blamed Lifetime for the trouble with the film.
