Fairly standard tween-oriented fare.
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 good-hearted 'tween comedy hampered by uneven direction and a misguided plot twist.
If you're a 13-year-old girl, you're the target audience for Sleepover ... If you're just a few years on either side of the tweeners, you can probably forget about it.
If the pre-adolescents in your life don't have anything better to do than watch this movie, maybe the time has come to teach them hopscotch.
There's little in the movie to like, either for tween girls or the unlucky parents who accompany them.
If ever a movie could be charged with imperiling the morals of a minor, it's probably Sleepover.
A lazy attempt to snare some preadolescent allowance money, Sleepover earns little more than a few bored yawns.
There's a whole lotta stealin', lyin' and misbehavin' going on, but not a lot of genuine entertainment, or much fun.
Another cynical attempt to separate young girls from their allowances.
Bright and funny, thanks to Elisa Bell's insightful, delightful script and the bubbly performances from the film's young stars.
The movie is uneven, but it has scored well during previews, and there's a reason: Sleepover fills a niche-audience void.
The makers of Sleepover have read the ’tweeners film plot handbook and adhere to it closely.
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