Sugar & Spice

LA Weekly John Patterson

Any movie offering a Muzak version of the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop"warrants an immediate and unqualified recommendation.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Amusingly subversive, thanks to sharp writing and direction, by Mandy Nelson and Francine McDougall, respectively.

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.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

It's is not a great high school movie like "Election," but it's alive and risky and saucy.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Fun in its raunchy unwieldiness.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

Isn't as dark as ''Heathers'' or as witty as ''Clueless,'' but it's at least pointed in that direction.

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.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

A cheerleader spoof that starts rousingly, but ends up nearly as shallow as its easy-target subjects.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Goofy and inconsequential, but pretty damned cute.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

It's perfectly entertaining (and well-executed) in its cute, undemanding way.

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

For every zinger, there are two flat jokes around the corner.

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.

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.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

This ambiguously pitched comedy--its idea of sexy humor is a cheerleader farting--shoots for camp without bothering with satire.

San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham

It means to be knowing and cynical but is just callow.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Give the girls a cheer, but remember: "Bring It On" is still the poo, Missy. Take a big whiff.

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.