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Summary: Sugar And Spice With Nothing Nice ...
Review: A quick review for those of you who dont like reading paragraphs and paragraphs of information. This movie was probably one of the worst I have seen. I saw this when I was bored and I had heard some funny things about it so I clicked on it and I was rather surprised. There were a few funny things but nothing special, the plot was horrible, it was inaproppiate, and the movie felt like it took forever to actaully get started and then actually finish. Overall: Dont even bother. You'll probably fall asleep before it gets to the climax or you'll be talking through it or the occasional few who would watch it in shock and say, "that was horrible."
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Summary: sugar & spice - corny but good
Review: this is really entertaining and funny even though it is sometimes very corny.i love the actresses in this movie especially Mena Suvari and Marley Shelton. diane weston the cheerleading captain (marley shelton)gets emmpregnated by jack (james marsden) a football player.they move into a small house and have money problems.diane decides she wants to rob a bank/store that she works at.her cheerleading freinds help her. this ia fun teen movie that is very funny but it would never win best picture.
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Summary: Smart Teen Comedy that become a Cult Favorite.
Review: Four Cheerleaders Friends (Mena Suvari, Rachel Blanchard, Melissa George & Sara Marsh) want to help their Squad Captain friend (Marley Shelton), when she becomes Pregnant by the School`s new Hotshot Quarterback (James Marsden) by Staging in a Robbery to a Order to Help her Out. Directed by Francine McDougall made a Entertaining, Clever Comedy that is at Times, Dark & Biting in her Directorial Debut. Marsden steals the film as the Football Player Doofus, which he gives a Fun Supporitng Funny Role. Marla Sokoloff has a Rude funny Supporting Performance as a Teen, who hates those Cheerleaders. Alexandra Holden plays their New Friend & also New Cheerleader in the Squad. DVD has an terrific anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1) transfer (Also in Pan & Scan) & an clean-Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. DVD Extras are Deleted Scenes, DVD-Rom (Which you Can read the Entire Screenplay), Cast & Crew information & Trailers. This has good Cinematography work by Richard Brinkmann (The Cable Guy & The Rules of Attraction). Sean Young has a funny brief role as Suvari`s mother. Written by Mandy Nelson. (Originally the Screenplay was Written by Lona Williams-Who wrote:Drop Dead Gorgeous). Joe Dunton Camera Widescreen (J-D-C Scope). Grade:A-.
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Summary: Awsomeness
Review: This was an awsome movie. It has been on direct TV lately and I find myself watching it every time it is on. Unfortunately, they are not playing it anymore so I have to buy it for myself! It is a funny film that keeps you watching. I would definately reccommend it!
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Summary: Surprising
Review: I really didn't expect much from this movie. I remember seeing the trailer in the theaters and then not giving it a second thought. I finally watched it and I was pleasantly surprised at how much fun it was. If you're expecting heavy handed drama, this isn't for you. It was mostly a silly movie, but it was also a lot of fun. It was a quick hour-and-a-half, not necessarily a movie you'd want to watch over and over, but enjoyable nonetheless. The pretty girls in cheerleader outfits certainly didn't hurt, and I think Marley Shelton is one of the prettiest and underrated actresses around. Give it a chance and watch it. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Nothing Inpired, But Still Some Fun Because of Those Girls
Review: Strangely enough, the film is compared with "Bring it on" (which I prefer much), but "Sugar & Spice" is in a completely different league, so don't expect the exciting cheerleading competion scenes or lovely Kirstin Dunst. However, if you like those girls (and campy acting & dialogues) and ignore the silliy story, this film might hopefully provide some good time. And at least it is not long (about 80 minute long). The story? Nothing particularly important except those A Squad cheerleaders at Lincoln High, one of whom falls in love with a hunky football player. And she gets pregnant. And they start to live together, but the life is not easy financially, so the friends in the cheerleading squad decide to help her. Now, they think, it's time for a bank robbery. You get many, many shots of these girls, all of them bing stock types -- including foul-mouthed, spit-firing Mena Suvari -- so there is nothing new or original in the hackneyed portraits of American high school life. Plus, the story is too incredible or stupid to take seriously so there is no way of watching it as a satire. Some viewer would be offended by what the characters do, and it is understandable. It is surely very irritating for most of us to watch irreponsible people hanging around you, chatting silly things near you, and without any intention or purpose for them to act that way. But on one level the film barely succeeds, and that is its unshamedness; it unashamedly uses Ms. Suvari again after her "American Beauty" role; it unahamedly uses Sean Young, who did the similar role in "Poor White Trash." They never hesitate to make use of classic heist movies (including Tarantino and others), and the company actually use the footages from those films (with permission, of course). And most of all, "S & S" never loses moments to capitalize the beauty and sexiness of the girls, and the young female players respond to the request of the director with knowingly campy acting. When you see these girls "pose" with pom-pom before the police witness (!) in the opening credit, you know what you are going to see. The gags are uninspired, and the ideas are just average ones, but because of these girls I find strangely attractive, I rather enjoyed watching it. Still, the ride could be funnier with better script, which does not ignore the fact that no longer can the filmmakers make fun of cheerleading in the way they did here after the success of "Bring it on."
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Summary: Cheerleaders as we might wish we could remember them
Review: This movie has been called a very silly farce, and perhaps it is. But for some of us it might just be the perfect antidote to some of our sour high school memories of pompousness. If you went to a school with plenty of pompousness and one where cheerleaders are virtually worshipped as goddesses and as an utterly unattainable standard for the rest of us, here's a no-holds-barred deflation of all that. It is sometimes hilarious, and I think I must speak for quite a few viewers when I say it is a thoroughly refreshing de-bunking of those myths that still haunt some of our teen memories. The cheerleaders in this movie are a motley crew of girls -- there's a super-popular one, there's a "trampy" one whose mother is in prison, and there's a super-pious one, out to retain her virginity (at least supposedly so!). But this movie brings them all down to the same earthy level and says cheerleaders can be real doofuses to all the extent of the other doofuses you knew in high school. SUGAR AND SPICE can really give one a feeling that there's not much difference after all between those school icons you most envied or wanted to emulate and their unfortunate classmates who were the butts of the most cruel jokes. At least one other recent movie seemed to celebrate and exult cheerleading as if it were the most serious and important sport since kickboxing. I guess there's a legitimate audience for such things. Some do take cheerleading very seriously, and not all of them should be assumed as having any intent of putting the rest of us "in our place". So let them be entitled to their serious cheerleading movies. But for so many of the rest of us, I must suppose, such a movie only reinforced those old memories of social stratification in school, seeming to waste some promising young acting talent in the process. So, while cheerleaders might need their serious movies, so equally do many of the rest of us need the likes of SUGAR AND SPICE as a refreshing change of pace!
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Summary: Just watch "Bring It On" instead
Review: One of the most bizzare movies I've ever seen, full of not-really-funny jokes where you're not really sure if you should laugh or be offended. The characters are all complete stereotypes, i.e. the goody-goody church girl, the bad seed, etc. They all seem incredibly self-absorbed and are rather irritating. The development of some of them isn't done very well, for example Mena Suvari's character doesn't speak until about 20 minutes in, despite lurking in the background almost from the start. It's easy to see why Bring It On won the battle of cheerleader comedies when both film were released.
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Summary: Great Idea... Failed in the execution
Review: This wanted to be a really good movie. I wanted this to be a really good movie. This should have been a really good movie. This was not a really good movie. The idea was great. Five Cheerleaders hold up a bank. It could have made for an interesting counterpoint in today's world of teensploitation films (a genre, which I will admit to enjoying). However, it failed in its execution. I think the Nelson and McDougall (writer and director, respectively) were looking for a dark comedy with deep social implications, but instead we are left with a weakly plotted string of not so funny one-off jokes. All things considered, the acting is decent, especially on the parts of Marla Sokoloff and Mena Suvari (both of whom, I am looking forward to seeing in more and greater roles), and yes, if you care, the girls are all cute. But it ends there. If you're looking for substance, and better executed dark comedies with similar themes or styles, I would suggest "But I'm a Cheerleader" or "Drop Dead Gorgeous." If you are looking for a good cheerleading movie, then go see "Bring it On". If you are simply looking for cheesecake. Well, i'm sure you can do better in that department too. Not the worst movie of all time, and worth seeing once, just for the experience, but its very disappointing to think about how much better it could have been.
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Summary: James Marsden saved the film
Review: The movie would be average without James Marsden. Considering that he was 26, he played the role of a lunkheaded high school jock so delightfully well. What makes James Marsden such a great actor is that he can play different roles so very well: a bullish brother (No Dessert Dad till you Mow the Lawn), a violently troubled teenager (On the Edge of Innocence), a ruthless mafia hit man (Bella Mafia), a detached high school outcast (Disturbing Behavior), a comic superhero (X-Men), a liar and rapist college student (Gossip), a boyish lawyer (Ally McBeal).
He saved the movie. James Marsden's heart stopping good looks and incredible talent make him the best in Hollywood's history. Watch for his upcoming new movies: Interstate 60, X2, The 24th Day, The Preacher...
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