Sydney White: Critic Reviews

A perky and chaste Y.A. update on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Ms. Bynes, with her cherubic face, expressive eyes and comic timing, helps create a positive, pleasing diversion that caters to the geek in all of us.

Sydney White's message of embracing all kinds of people and not quaking in fear of the elite and popular is a sound one, but each twist and turn is so telegraphed and expected that the story feels wan and the comedy feeble.

A feeble college comedy aimed at middle schoolers.

On television, Amanda Bynes' tendency toward slapstick can come across as sitcom-cute. Blown up on the big screen, it's the equivalent of a hammer hitting you over the head. For 90 minutes. In surround sound.

Bynes is captivating despite a role that does not give her much to do but display tomboyish good spirit behind some really unfortunate hair and make-up.

Sydney White, according to its producers, is a sequel to Hilary Duff's A Cinderella Story, and it shares with that 2004 film the vacuum-like ability to suck the fun out of a fairy tale.

While the film's premise is shamelessly hokey and Joe Nussbaum's direction is at best pedestrian, props are due the young cast, especially Bynes, whose can-do optimism seems genuine if ultimately overdone.

Dorks deserve better than this. Amanda Bynes deserve better than this. Most importantly, audiences deserve better than this.

...should satisfy Bynes fans looking for a pleasant, innocuous follow-up to her last vehicle.

Snow White joins a sorority and gets some Revenge of the Nerds friends in Sydney White, a cute comedy for girls.

Sydney White is an Amanda Bynes comedy that shows the after-effects a long-running TV sitcom can have on an actress.

How hard could it be to make a clever parody of Snow White? Very hard, apparently.

As Sydney White again demonstrates, [Amanda Bynes] just doesn't seem to have found a script that lives up to her comic potential.

A mildly fractured fairy tale that's often too dopey for its own good.

...Sydney White's astounding lack of positive attributes cements its place as an utterly worthless endeavor.

Sydney helps a group of geeks with the most mundane tasks, such as tying shoes, and waking up and there isn't one ounce of believability in the journey.

This surprisingly clever coed reworking of Snow White does for dorks what Revenge of the Nerds did for, well, you know.

rather clever! Bynes is her usual bubbly, entertaining-self

Audiences will identify more with Sydney White's misfit cast than its bland leading lady.

Strictly for teenage girls, Sydney White is not totally without charms, but is too breathless, too cheesy and far too dorky to leave a favourable impact.

A Grimm prospect for fairytale traditionalists, but breezy enough to stop tweens feeling sleepy.