After all, life among the clueless Hayleys of the world is no life for someone blessed with a gift for accessorising. And Alexia gets?well, Alexia gets as mad as you'd expect for a pretty and popular teenager in this situation. Hayley is ecstatic: the car keys, the guys, the cool friends - suddenly they are all hers. But there's nothing average about the sibling rivalry that explodes when a wish makes them switch places. The only thing average about her sister Alexia (Katherine Heigl of TV's "Roswell") is her grades. Hayley (Danielle Harris, Urban Legend) is an average teenager, a grungy brainiac with no fashion sense.
But it's not puberty that's causing the commotion.
Seventeen-year-old Alexia hadn't been herself lately. The main performances aren't bad (though nearly all supporting roles are forgettable), the messages are ultimately positive, but parents may feel a little bit uncomfortable with the frequent literal zoning in on Heigl at the expense of more substance. Unfortunately, it falls a bit into stereotypes about being smart versus being popular or fashionable, and because the camera spends so much time literally panning Heigl's body in mini-skirts, and because her looks, and the affections of her boyfriend and dressing in a risque way becomes such a routine part of the plot (which involves a lot of kissing, some welcomed catcalls, and a striptease-style dance), it moves the material into a more mature zone. Here, Heigl and Harrison have good chemistry, and having them both long for the same boyfriend and ultimately forced to appreciate each other's strengths and weaknesses makes for some nice insights into sibling rivalry and grass-is-greener thinking about other's lives. What would happen if you could trade places with someone with a better life than you, even for a few days? Movies like Big, 13 Going on 30, and Freaky Friday all trafficked in the same what-if scenario to better results, but Wish Upon a Star is not entirely without its charms. 
WISH UPON A STAR works an appealing but somewhat overdone premise.
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