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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
EMAILPRINTBuena Vista Pictures / Walt Disney Pictures

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 23 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 33 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Gail Parent
Dyan Sheldon (book)
Directed by: Sara Sugarman
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 20, 2004
DVD: July 20, 2004
Running Time: 97 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG for mild thematic elements and brief language
Starring Lindsay Lohan, Alison Pill, Barbara Mamabolo, Carol Kane, Megan Fox, Adam Garcia, Kyle Kassardjian, and Adam MacDonald and Eli Marienthal
Lola (Lohan) feels her life is simply not worth living when she moves with her family from every single thing on the planet that she loves (read: the Big Apple) and is plunked down in the middle of the cultural wasteland that is suburban New Jersey. How will this New York doll ever make it as a Jersey girl? (Disney)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
At a time when crassness and dumbing down pervade popular entertainment, especially movies aimed at youthful audiences, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen dares to be smart.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Ellen A. Kim
Only Carol Kane, hilarious in roller curls and wide tortoiseshell glasses, gets to sink her teeth into her role. At least for Lohan, "Confessions" is her stepping-off point. Now she has to find a film to be her "real" stage.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
A safely sanitized comedy with an important message about loyalty and individuality, plays to Lohan's strengths and gives the target audience a chance to live it up vicariously.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden
Girls ages 6-14 will get a charge from the fashion show, animation effects and, to a lesser degree, the cartoonish antics. But like most adolescent histrionics, the pic's impact on adults will be limited to mild amusement alternating with annoyance.
TV Guide Angel Cohn
A pretty little package whose perfect, fairy-tale ending is just a little too neat, the film's colorful wrapping includes veteran actress Carol Kane's bizarre but enjoyable performance as the school's uptight drama teacher.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
This junior chick flick merely reinforces superficial clichés one associates with female teens: petty fights, intense highs and lows, and self-absorption.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
With no Jamie Lee Curtis as a volleying partner, though, Lohan's chipper energy is, like, so totally out of proportion given the colorless pliability of everyone around her.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
Doesn't have a mean bone in its body, but it's so sloppily assembled that even Lohan's charm can't keep it together.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
A smart script by Gail Parent (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) boosts the first half of this comedy.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
Welsh director Sara Sugarman and the great cinematographer Stephen Burum (Hoffa, The Untouchables) keep the visuals bouncing along in bright, primary-color-intensive fashion, but the movie has no real heart and even less soul.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
Tethered to screenwriter Gail Parent's adaptation of Dyan Sheldon's novel, plus the demands of bigwig producers, it's a testament to Sugarman's artistry that she sustains her funky playfulness--a hallmark of her earlier work--throughout most of this film.
Read Full Review >Variety Dennis Harvey
Minimally funny comedy feels like a Disney Channel pic that got boosted to theatrical after Lohan scored a hit opposite Jamie Lee Curtis in the "Freaky Friday" remake.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
I confess to a deep uncertainty about whether this can be rightly called a movie. A bunch of scenes, maybe... I confess to a cynical belief that Lola isn't actually a role but just a succession of costume changes.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Even by Disney's formulaic standards -- is about as cut and dried as the phone book.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
It's a silly, giggly piece of pink-colored fluff, as hyperactive as its heroine and as redolent of bubble gum and Love's Baby Soft cologne as Lola apparently is. Yet the superficial sweetness masks something rotten.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
Another casualty of the uncomfortable branding so common to the teen genre, the same branding one sees in a film starring Hilary Duff, or Amanda Bynes, or the next sweet but bland blond actress that comes down the assembly line.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
The movie [Sugarman] made gives little indication that she understands teen girls, dramatic or plain. Much of Confessions seems clueless and -- even worse for moviegoers of any age -- listless.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder
It breaks director Billy Wilder's most important movie commandment: Thou Shall Not Bore. It's just not funny.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 4.5 (out of 10) based on 33 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Philadelphia D. gave it a10:
This is the coolet movie I love it heaps you rock lindsay lohan keep doing what your doing cause it's so cool.
Cady H. gave it a 10:
Its the best movie ever.
Shannon R. gave it a 10:
It's is the BEST movie of allll times!!!
[Anonymous] gave it a 3:
Lohan some parts of this movie was okay. But mostly it stunk. Its one movie I only want to see 1 time!!! Some times u really suck and Lizzie RULES....like NOW.
~_*CuTiE*_~ gave it a 5:
I thought this movie was good, but not great. It was kinda...well...wierd. I love the piont about being who you are....but the wierd fantasys she had freaked me out!
Spawn gave it a 0:
32? more like a 1! Spare your own life and see other movies like AVP, Spider Man 1 and 2 and LOTR trilogy, rather than this!
Zybard gave it a 4:
Was this the sappy fairy tale prequel to Mean Girls? (I know that it isn't, just compare the two.)
