Sleepover (2004): Dir: Joe Nussbaum / Cast: Alexa Vega, Mika Boorem, Kallie Flynn Childress, Scout Taylor-Compton, Sara Paxton: Another mindless teen comedy worth sleeping through. It suggests adventure when entering that next stage of growth but it mainly plays as an encore for vulgar sexual humour where these girls get away with behaviour that perhaps they should not. Four girls about to enter high school are talked into participating in a risky scavenger hunt. The catch being that the mother of one of the girls believes that they are having a slumber party. Lame concept deteriorates into numerous situations to get a guy's boxer shorts and the crown at the dance, etc. Director Joe Nussbaum has little sense of timing and relies mainly on flashy locations. Alexa Vega of Spy Kids fame heads the cast as the girl initially challenged with this nonsense. Mika Boorem plays her best friend proving that if one person walks into stupidity then another must follow as a rule of friendship. Sara Paxton makes an appearance and it is about as bad as her mermaid film where she is basically cast to look good. Kallie Flynn Childress and Scout Taylor-Compton round out the girls and between them all they have the combined personality of a pair of dirty underwear. None of this is funny as it plays as the latest sex teen romp worth the sleeping pills to get through. Score: 2 / 10

This movie is downright terrible. Usually I like cheesy movies because they are so stupid and pointless that you can laugh at them, but this movie is just all-around awful. There are many reasons that this movie is bad, so I'll list them here: 1. The acting is very questionable; it's supposed to feature a good, talented cast, but the actors may as well be robots, as they're not putting any expression into their lines whatsoever. 2. All of the jokes that are supposed to be funny are just stupid. 3. The main character, Julie, is a complete selfish, self-centered snob- she complains to her parents about not getting a lock on her bedroom door, and that her mom treats her like a baby, and that her crush doesn't even know she exists-it makes you want to slap her across the face. 4. The film basically encourages bad behavior, what with the scavenger hunt and all, and the parents' reaction to Julie's sneaking out of the house is far too lenient-they don't punish her, but instead reward her with a lock for her bedroom door-if I did that, I'd be grounded for life!5. The fake emotion in this movie is overwhelming-the writers tried to throw in some emotional scenes that didn't fit to the script or the theme of the movie in the first place, and all of the actors failed to deliver them.6. The ending is so predictable it's ridiculous-my five-year-old sister could see it coming! Julie ends up with the guy of her dreams and her and her friends win the scavenger hunt and are skyrocketed into popularity-news flash: life isn't perfect!7. The movie is really shallow and pretty much implies that being popular and wearing designer clothes and dating the cutest boy in school are the most important things in life-it sends a bad message to young viewers.8. Lastly, the guy that the chubby character (Yancy) winds up with at the end of the film says that he has a one-night gig working at the bar/club the girls sneak into-for this to be true, he'd have to be at least 21 years of age. Which means that a 21-year-old man has fallen in love with a 14-year-old girl. Isn't there something wrong with that picture?This movie is awful for all of the reasons mentioned above, and is totally not worth the hour and half of your time that it takes up-take my advice: don't watch it.

Have you ever seen something so awful, so terrible, so frightening, that you couldn't look away? This film is akin to a fiery cataclysm or roadkill. It is literally so bad, it's almost mesmerizing.This film was on cable after the movie my husband and I had been watching, and we left the TV on. Big mistake. After about ten minutes, unable to tear our eyes from the train wreck, my husband and I wanted to start a list of the bad messages it sends to teenage girls, or, most probably, girls a lot younger. (Why not? It's never too early to learn that if you're an overweight 14-year-old girl, you'll either never have a boyfriend, or you'll jump at the chance to get one that's old enough to legally get into a bar.) That's in addition to the other list we wanted to start, of the numerous dangerous and/or illegal activities that the girls engage in, in order to win a prestigious place to eat lunch when they enter high school after the summer. (Because everyone remembers how important where THEY ate lunch was when they were in high school.) The messages of a GOOD film would be that overweight girls are just as valuable as anorexic ones, and that true friendship is more important than where you eat lunch. Instead, this movie tells young girls that dangerous, illegal hijinks and deception should be rewarded with popularity and boyfriends galore.You have been warned.

It took me a long time to see this movie, but I finally did when my sister got it as a gift. Although the movie had its incredibly corny moments, and the plot was obviously written to entertain a preteen audience, I did find the movie enjoyable. There will be times during this movie when you will just have to laugh, and there will be times that you nod as you remember similar antics of your own. The characters are lovable and realistic, even if some of the messes they get into may not be. Granted, there will also be times when you just have to roll your eyes at the cheesiness. Overall, I found the movie very cute and very entertaining;just don't send your boys to watch it.