'This is excruciating,' Stacie tells Liz, which could be said about all of this charmless comedy.
Sleepover (2004)
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Reviews Counted:93
Fresh:14
Rotten:79
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: 'Tween girls will enjoy this sugar coated fluff, but others will find Sleepover a snooze.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Julie and her friends Hannah, Farrah, and Yancy have a supercharged sleepover on their hands: they've been challenged to a scavenger hunt by "popular" girls Staci, Liz, Jenna, and Molly, and the... Julie and her friends Hannah, Farrah, and Yancy have a supercharged sleepover on their hands: they've been challenged to a scavenger hunt by "popular" girls Staci, Liz, Jenna, and Molly, and the winners get dibs on the coveted cool lunch spot once they start their freshman year in high school at the end of the summer. The losers have to dine al fresco … adjacent to the dumpster, and far from popularity. Staci and her devious pals have built in several snags for Julie's crew. They'll have to undertake such Herculean tasks as sneaking into a "grown-up" nightclub, rearranging clothes on store mannequins at a crowded mall, stealing underwear from the most popular boy in the neighborhood, and somehow swiping the king or queen's crown at the high school dance. With the exuberance of youth and the support of true friends on their side, Julie and her pals must first escape Julie's house. This won't be easy, as Julie's mom, Gabby, has the girls swear to stay indoors while she herself goes out for a night on the town with her own girlfriends. Also, Julie's dad, Jay, is downstairs grappling with a testy faucet while her college brother, Ren, is home and underfoot. Using their wits, a little bit of luck, and a rose trellis, the girls slip out into the night. Before this adventure is over, they will have to outrun dimwitted neighborhood security, learn to drive an impossibly small electric car, create chaos at the mall, invade a posh nightclub (where Julie's mom is dancing the night away!), elude pesky skateboarding dorks, and come face to face with the boys of their dreams. All in all, not bad for the first sleepover of the summer. [More]
Starring: Alexa Vega, Mika Boorem, Jane Lynch, Jeff Garlin
Starring: Alexa Vega, Mika Boorem, Jane Lynch, Jeff Garlin, Sara Paxton, Steve Carell, Brie Larson
Director: Joe Nussbaum
Director: Joe Nussbaum
Screenwriter: Elisa Bell
Producer: Charles Weinstock, Bob Cooper
Studio: MGM/UA
Reviews for Sleepover
A less-than-average take on teen life that's been done better. This year, in fact.
...some may become rather drowsy at this Sleepover...yet another anemic manufactured teen flick...the cheesy sentiment only lasts as long as the aftertaste of a fried Twinkie
With a derivative, disturbing script that encompasses almost every coarse adolescent comedy cliche and encourages outright lying and deception, it's a lame, tasteless yawn.
Nussbaum's attempt to capture the 'tween zeitgeist fails: The Spice Girls–infused soundtrack is dated, and the feel-good progressiveness forced.
What begins as a simple sleepover turns into the adventure of their lives.
It may be true that all 14-year-olds desire to be older and strive to appear so, but exploring those wishes and dreams in such a superficial, coarse and insensitive way as this movie does is neither responsible nor good entertainment for anyone of any age
A cutesy soufflé that’ll come and go faster than you can say…now what’s the local kiddie lingo?
Just when the big screen could use an injection of frothy, giggly girl power -- all in the name of a covert feminist message, of course -- Sleepover squanders that promise with a blah story and even bigger bummer of a take-home message.
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