One can't shake the feeling that Crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for Britney's latest album.
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02/15/02
Crossroads (2002)
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Reviews Counted:101
Fresh:14
Rotten:87
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: A cliched and silly pop star vanity project, Crossroads is strictly for Britney fans only.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Pop sensation Britney Spears makes her film debut in this sparkling teen road-trip adventure. Spears stars as Lucy, the beautiful valedictorian of her small Georgia hometown who has lost touch with... [More]
Starring: Britney Spears, Taryn Manning, Zoe Saldana, Dan Aykroyd
Director: Tamra Davis
Reviews for Crossroads
I went to Crossroads expecting a glitzy bimbofest and got the bimbos but not the fest.
02/15/02
Top CriticLet's face it -- there aren't many reasons anyone would want to see Crossroads if they’re not big fans of teen pop kitten Britney Spears.
02/15/02
Laced with After School Special blandness, bits of tween-friendly comedy and packs o' cleavage.
02/15/02
Top CriticAn awful lot like one of [Spears'] music videos in content -- except that it goes on for at least 90 more minutes and, worse, that you have to pay if you want to see it.
02/15/02
Britney has been delivered to the big screen safe and sound, the way we like our 20-year-old superstar girls to travel on the fame freeway.
02/15/02
Sure, Crossroads and Brit herself may be silly, superficial, and bubbly, but so what? She and the film are also fun, sexy, and playful.
02/15/02
The film's mealy-mouthed messages about feminine empowerment will almost certainly fall on deaf ears, since even 11-year-olds know Spears's power resides largely in her taut torso.
02/14/02
Watching Ms. Spears sing, dance and act can leave you wondering what is meant nowadays by the concept of talent.
02/14/02
Top CriticThe only thing separating Crossroads from a Showtime soft porn is the lack of any actual nudity. Like its star, the film is just a highly inappropriate tease.
02/14/02
Brittany's fans will probably love "Crossroads." Everyone else may be able to make a drinking game out of it.
02/14/02
Too hokey, too stodgy and too aggressively pink.
02/14/02
One of the more glaring signs of this movie's servitude to its superstar is the way it skirts around any scenes that might have required genuine acting from Ms. Spears.
02/14/02
Lacks the conviction to deliver a true message to [teens], and winds up saying nothing.
02/14/02
A charmless road pic slathered in cheese.
02/14/02
Plays less like a coming-of-age romance than an infomercial.
02/14/02
Non-Spears fans will remain unmoved and may actually bolt for the exits upon hearing the opening lines to 'I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman.'
02/14/02
Adults will wish the movie were less simplistic, obvious, clumsily plotted and shallowly characterized. But what are adults doing in the theater at all?
02/14/02
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde or someone equally irked by melodrama, you'd have to have a heart of stone to watch a film like Crossroads without laughing.
02/14/02
An appealing chick flick about three friends who explore together the scary and exhilarating transition from adolescence to adulthood.
02/14/02
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