Sleepover: Critic Reviews

Sour patch of candy-coated crud.

How young do you have to be before you want to be older? With this wispy pubescent comedy, Hollywood has come up with a number: 14.

A banal, relatively innocent comedy aimed at 'tween girls.

Just when the big screen could use an injection of frothy, giggly girl power -- all in the name of a covert feminist message, of course -- Sleepover squanders that promise with a blah story and even bigger bummer of a take-home message.

Not overwhelmingly original or funny.

The multiplexes haven't been jammed with this many repetitively single-minded portrayals of young people since the gangsta craze of the early 1990s.

Nussbaum's attempt to capture the 'tween zeitgeist fails: The Spice Girls-infused soundtrack is dated, and the feel-good progressiveness forced.

A lazy attempt to snare some preadolescent allowance money, Sleepover earns little more than a few bored yawns.

The movie is uneven, but it has scored well during previews, and there's a reason: Sleepover fills a niche-audience void.

Fills the bill for a breezy summer escape.

A lame and labored comedy.

Unlikely to win much of a following beyond its pubescent target audience.

Not much fun even for this fan of Alexa Vega from Spy Kids.

Too silly for teens who are old enough to drive and too boy-centric for girls still in grade school, the comedy is predictable but cute.

The makers of Sleepover have read the 'tweeners film plot handbook and adhere to it closely.

Perky and playful, even if it isn't a side-splitter.

Even by the notoriously flexible standards of bubblegum teen pics, Sleepover comes off as wildly unbelievable and often astonishingly silly.

If ever a movie could be charged with imperiling the morals of a minor, it's probably Sleepover.

If the pre-adolescents in your life don't have anything better to do than watch this movie, maybe the time has come to teach them hopscotch.

Fairly standard tween-oriented fare.

Sleepover is as corny as Kansas in the fall.

Essentially sleepwalks its way through a strictly by-the-numbers premise.

A skillfully made teen comedy with such an endearing sensibility that it's fun even for those old enough to be the grandparents of its stars.

Not for younger kids, despite its PG rating.