After wallowing in Britney Spears’ misfortunes for over an hour, this biopic has its lead actress address the camera and ask, “Why would anyone enjoy someone else's pain?”. Why indeed?!!! Britney Ever After avoids Spears' early triumphs and instead focuses on her failed relationships, bouts with the paparazzi and mental breakdowns. No wonder the predominant sentiment expressed by fans and critics after viewing this film was summed up in an earlier viral video… Leave Britney Alone!

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Framed by a documentary crew interviewing Spears in 2008, Britney Ever After wastes no time portraying Justin Timberlake as the love of her life. Omitting their time together on ‘The All-New Mickey Mouse Club’, the biopic takes up their relationship when Spears becomes the opening act for N’Sync. Unfortunately, competing schedules and suspected infidelities conspire to keep the young lovers apart and when the couple break up, Britney’s life begins to unravel.

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Denied the rights to the singer’s music, this biopic unimaginatively resigns itself to portraying the singer engaging in conversations while entering or exiting the stage. Coupled with banal interviews of family and friends by the faux documentarians, Britney Ever After becomes a fragmented mess that reveals its budgetary constraints at every turn. Hampered by lacklustre direction and an insipid script, it is left to the performances to elevate the film. Regrettably, Australian actress Natasha Bassett is not up to the task. In her efforts to convey a young, bubbly and joyful Spears, Bassett giggles and squeals to a degree not seen since Loni Anderson’s performance in The Jayne Mansfield Story.

Britney Ever After ends with Britney being placed under the conservatorship of her father, which the singer successfully challenged four years after this biopic aired. The film could easily have been used as Exhibit A for her father’s defence.​​