A lot more perceptive and witty than most other cheerleader movies.
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03/19/01
Sugar & Spice (2001)
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Reviews Counted:73
Fresh:21
Rotten:52
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Though this cheerleader comedy has an intriguing premise, it's too empty-headed and saddled with too many lame jokes to live up to it. Also, some critics say the movie is irresponsible in its depiction of teens and guns.
Runtime: 84 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: SUGAR & SPICE is a wicked black comedy about high school, teenage pregnancy, and five bankrobbing cheerleaders armed with semi-automatic weapons. When Diane, (Marley Shelton), a popular high school... [More]
Starring: Marley Shelton, James Marsden, Marla Sokoloff, Mena Suvari
Director: Francine McDougall
Reviews for Sugar & Spice
While there are moments of inspired lunacy here, the kookiness comes only in small doses, and it's all too often swamped by a sea of obnoxiousness.
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01/25/01
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02/07/01
It's brightly diverting enough most of the time to get it past its shortfall.
01/26/01
A badly executed black comedy for the teen set.
06/05/02
It's alive and risky and saucy.
01/26/01
Top CriticIt's a well-written, fun ride, with great visual gags, sacrilegious funnery, and interesting plot twists.
06/14/01
The mood here is unfocused, relying on the coarseness of the Farrelly brothers as well as the forced sincerity of a Brady Bunch episode.
01/25/01
Brain-dead but pleasantly so.
02/07/01
About as good as you'd expect. But never as good as you'd prefer.
01/29/01
If it weren't that this irritating, irresponsible film was in production around the same time as last fall's sleeper hit Bring It On, you'd swear it was a rushed-out knock-off
01/26/01
The picture feels rushed and rather pointless -- a nice enough diversion, but one that fails to go that extra mile to become anything other than such.
01/29/01
This dark comedy keeps most of its laughs in good formation.
01/26/01
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02/07/01
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02/07/01
It's fun in its raunchy unwieldiness.
01/31/01
Jokes fall more in the genre of 'teens will laugh at this because teens will laugh at anything.'
01/29/01
Seems designed to amuse people who believe that all teenagers are total morons, which might seem like a subversive tactic for a teen movie, but the film's smugness quickly becomes tedious.
02/07/01
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