This movie is broken on Tubi.

I’m pretty sure I’m the only person who has seen My New BFF, and I’m not just saying that because the film has 19 ratings on IMDB and zero reviews, and no website anywhere on the internet has reviewed it. But there’s a couple of points in this film that if anyone else had seen it, they would have had attention brought to them. And that’s how I know ain’t nobody seen this movie.

The premise of film is simple; Ishara Jhacole plays Jasmine Maker, a senior high school girl whose life is flipped turned upside down by the sudden appearance of new student Lisa Waters (Desiree French). The only thing is Lisa might not be exactly who she seems. She might even be evil, and by that I mean a sociopath. Not a demon girl or a ghost girl or something, this ain’t that kind of movie. Lisa slowly becomes a corrupting influence on Jasmine as she also gets her toxic fingies into everyone from her hot dad Mr. Maker (Ryland Johnson) who doesn’t get a first name and her friends.

Bree Washington (Whitney Chanelle) plays the role of “girl I wouldn’t do that if I were you” who immediately sniffs out Lisa as evil. Then you’ve got ex-boyfriend Jake (Keelan Lewis), and a whole cast of characters. Jasmine starts acting out, smoking the marijuana cigarettes, getting in trouble, and all kinds of crazy crap. Can her family and friends save her and bring her back to the light before it’s too late? I don’t know, this is a Tubi movie.

So let’s talk about those problems I brought up and how I know nobody watched this film, or at least nobody’s watched it since it hit Tubi. There’s multiple points in the film where the audio is completely off. At a lot of points it’s too quiet, but there’s one or two moments where the audio is completely out of sync by several seconds. There’s another scene where they accidentally use coughing sounds from another scene that’s clearly a mistake.

Audio swaps between being far too quiet to the point of being inaudible and being so loud that the actors peak the microphone. They’re also terrified of having background sound when nobody is talking and the film regularly goes awkwardly dead silent. I’m glad I watched this movie with subtitles because there’s a few scenes that are so quiet I wouldn’t have known people were speaking in them.

It’s disappointing this film had so many problems with the audio because it really ruined what otherwise felt like a pretty intelligently written and directed film. Denise Mone’t previously directed Killer Zaddy, so we know she’s got talent. The writer on this was Jeremy Becton who also wrote Behind Closed Doors 2, another Mone’t film. At an hour and fifteen minutes it hardly offends for the time span, but until they get the audio issues fixed it is not worth watching.

The cast are all great for what it’s worth.

Rating: D-