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- 7/30/2010
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
Opens Friday, July 9
Yet another teen girl-targeted comedy -- albeit one that features neither Lindsay Lohan nor Hilary Duff -- Sleepover essentially sleepwalks its way through a strictly by-the-numbers premise.
Aside from a likable lead performance by former Spy Kid Alexa Vega, there isn't much to this MGM summer break item that's going after a demo already showing signs of being burned out on a glut of more of the same.
Vega is the nice but constantly overlooked Julie, who invites a group of her nice but equally unpopular girlfriends (Mika Boorem, Scout Taylor-Compton and Kallie Flynn Childress) over for an end-of-junior high sleepover at her place.
But they prove to have little use for their sleeping bags after they're challenged to an all-night scavenger hunt by the "popular girls" with the prize being a prime high school lunch table by the fountain. The losers get to sit with the nerds next to the Dumpster.
With her married mom (Jane Lynch) out clubbing (!) and her oblivious dad (Jeff Garlin) busy installing an under-the-sink water purifier, Julie is free to commence the nocturnal quest relatively unthwarted, and their adventure paves the way for more product placement than you can shake a Hot Dog on a stick at.
Joe Nussbaum, who attracted a great deal of attention several years ago with his short film, George Lucas in Love, exhibits little of that charm and inspiration while making his feature directorial debut here, working off of a nonsensical script by Elisa Bell that makes strained attempts at sounding witty and irreverent.
Even by conventional movie standards, the dialogue and situations fail to reflect a contemporary 15-year-old girl's reality, even one that's rooted in comedy. Speaking of reality, it's also just a bit troublesome that there isn't a single character of color to be found anywhere on the picture's Southern California landscape.
Production values are efficient if generic, with the overall look and sound of the film owing much to the bubblegum color scheme and grrrl power pop of MGM's Legally Blonde prototype.
Sleepover
MGM
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures presents a Landscape Entertainment production in association with Weinstock Prods.
Credits:
Director: Joe Nussbaum
Producers: Charles Weinstock, Bob Cooper
Screenwriter: Elisa Bell
Executive producer: Jeremiah Samuels
Director of photography: James L. Carter
Production designer: Stephen McCabe
Editor: Craig P. Herring
Costume designer: Pamela Withers Chilton
Music supervisor: Elliot Lurie
Music: Deborah Lurie
Cast:
: Alexa Vega
Hannah: Mika Boorem
Gabby: Jane Lynch
Ren: Sam Huntington
Staci: Sara Paxton
Liz: Brie Larson
Farrah: Scout Taylor-Compton
Yancy: Kallie Flynn Childress
Steve: Sean Faris
Sherman: Steve Carell
Jay: Jeff Garlin
MPAA rating PG
Running time -- 90 minutes...
Yet another teen girl-targeted comedy -- albeit one that features neither Lindsay Lohan nor Hilary Duff -- Sleepover essentially sleepwalks its way through a strictly by-the-numbers premise.
Aside from a likable lead performance by former Spy Kid Alexa Vega, there isn't much to this MGM summer break item that's going after a demo already showing signs of being burned out on a glut of more of the same.
Vega is the nice but constantly overlooked Julie, who invites a group of her nice but equally unpopular girlfriends (Mika Boorem, Scout Taylor-Compton and Kallie Flynn Childress) over for an end-of-junior high sleepover at her place.
But they prove to have little use for their sleeping bags after they're challenged to an all-night scavenger hunt by the "popular girls" with the prize being a prime high school lunch table by the fountain. The losers get to sit with the nerds next to the Dumpster.
With her married mom (Jane Lynch) out clubbing (!) and her oblivious dad (Jeff Garlin) busy installing an under-the-sink water purifier, Julie is free to commence the nocturnal quest relatively unthwarted, and their adventure paves the way for more product placement than you can shake a Hot Dog on a stick at.
Joe Nussbaum, who attracted a great deal of attention several years ago with his short film, George Lucas in Love, exhibits little of that charm and inspiration while making his feature directorial debut here, working off of a nonsensical script by Elisa Bell that makes strained attempts at sounding witty and irreverent.
Even by conventional movie standards, the dialogue and situations fail to reflect a contemporary 15-year-old girl's reality, even one that's rooted in comedy. Speaking of reality, it's also just a bit troublesome that there isn't a single character of color to be found anywhere on the picture's Southern California landscape.
Production values are efficient if generic, with the overall look and sound of the film owing much to the bubblegum color scheme and grrrl power pop of MGM's Legally Blonde prototype.
Sleepover
MGM
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures presents a Landscape Entertainment production in association with Weinstock Prods.
Credits:
Director: Joe Nussbaum
Producers: Charles Weinstock, Bob Cooper
Screenwriter: Elisa Bell
Executive producer: Jeremiah Samuels
Director of photography: James L. Carter
Production designer: Stephen McCabe
Editor: Craig P. Herring
Costume designer: Pamela Withers Chilton
Music supervisor: Elliot Lurie
Music: Deborah Lurie
Cast:
: Alexa Vega
Hannah: Mika Boorem
Gabby: Jane Lynch
Ren: Sam Huntington
Staci: Sara Paxton
Liz: Brie Larson
Farrah: Scout Taylor-Compton
Yancy: Kallie Flynn Childress
Steve: Sean Faris
Sherman: Steve Carell
Jay: Jeff Garlin
MPAA rating PG
Running time -- 90 minutes...
- 7/19/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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