| 80 |
LA Weekly
John Patterson
Any movie offering a Muzak version of the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop"warrants an immediate and unqualified recommendation.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Amusingly subversive, thanks to sharp writing and direction, by Mandy Nelson and Francine McDougall, respectively.
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| 77 |
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
If you're in the mood for a helping of lite cheesecake, you ought to find plenty of reason to shake your pom-poms.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It's is not a great high school movie like "Election," but it's alive and risky and saucy.
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| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Fun in its raunchy unwieldiness.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Isn't as dark as ''Heathers'' or as witty as ''Clueless,'' but it's at least pointed in that direction.
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| 63 |
USA Today
Staff [Not Credited]
Ragged but with an appealing comic edge, the movie is certainly funnier than most of the other comedies that studios have tried to keep from critics until opening day.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
A cheerleader spoof that starts rousingly, but ends up nearly as shallow as its easy-target subjects.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Goofy and inconsequential, but pretty damned cute.
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| 50 |
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
It's perfectly entertaining (and well-executed) in its cute, undemanding way.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
For every zinger, there are two flat jokes around the corner.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
The movie is full of scattershot gags and indifferent acting, but you get the feeling that it's bad on purpose, which makes it, given the number of teenage movies that are terrible by accident, not bad at all.
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| 40 |
Film.com
Gemma Files
Mandy Nelson's sugar-high bright-'n'-cheerful script takes a series of easy ways out, avoiding completely the prospective pitfalls of having to see any of these characters as complicated, contradictory, not entirely nice or identifiable-with -- actual human beings, in other words.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
This ambiguously pitched comedy--its idea of sexy humor is a cheerleader farting--shoots for camp without bothering with satire.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
It means to be knowing and cynical but is just callow.
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| 20 |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Give the girls a cheer, but remember: "Bring It On" is still the poo, Missy. Take a big whiff.
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| 20 |
Village Voice
Caleb Crain
Sugar & Spice struggles with the existential challenge of individuating five perky white heterosexual girls wearing identical aquamarine miniskirts and halter tops. And that's before they put on their latex "Betty" masks.
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