The most important rule is don't leave the house...
The Story:
Getting ready to start high school is tough. Doing it when your best friend (Mika Boorem) is about to move away forever...world-changing. So Julie (Alexa Vega) has a sleepover at her house. Her mom (Jane Lynch) is still treating her like a little girl while her dad (Jeff Garlin) remains clueless about everything. However, when the popular rival (Sara Paxton) challenges Julie's crew to a scavenger hunt... the winner gets to sit at the "popular kids" spot in high school for lunch while the others have to sit near the dumpsters... Some rules are meant to be broken.
If you have daughters, this is a good film for them to watch.
On second thought, since they disobey the parents, maybe not! : )
Okay, ignoring the bad parenting advice, it's a fun, mostly harmless movie. The trouble they get into is nothing that bad, and it's a movie with the hi-jinks that won't hopefully bother the parents I you're watching along with your children.
Sam Huntington provides some amusement as the put-upon brother who tries to cover his sister's shenanigans by pretending to be an all-female slumber party by himself.
Thrown also into the mix is Steve Carrell as a rent-a-cop for a few silly moments as well.
This one came out in 2004, right after his breakout performances in Bruce Almighty and Anchorman. Nothing quite that funny for him in this role, but here you can catch him before he shot to fame the next year as a star.
Final Grade: B-
Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: I wouldn't go out of my way to buy it or stop everything that I'm doing if it came on, but it's a harmless bit of fun that if it was on, I would likely stop flipping channels.
The Story:
Getting ready to start high school is tough. Doing it when your best friend (Mika Boorem) is about to move away forever...world-changing. So Julie (Alexa Vega) has a sleepover at her house. Her mom (Jane Lynch) is still treating her like a little girl while her dad (Jeff Garlin) remains clueless about everything. However, when the popular rival (Sara Paxton) challenges Julie's crew to a scavenger hunt... the winner gets to sit at the "popular kids" spot in high school for lunch while the others have to sit near the dumpsters... Some rules are meant to be broken.
If you have daughters, this is a good film for them to watch.
On second thought, since they disobey the parents, maybe not! : )
Okay, ignoring the bad parenting advice, it's a fun, mostly harmless movie. The trouble they get into is nothing that bad, and it's a movie with the hi-jinks that won't hopefully bother the parents I you're watching along with your children.
Sam Huntington provides some amusement as the put-upon brother who tries to cover his sister's shenanigans by pretending to be an all-female slumber party by himself.
Thrown also into the mix is Steve Carrell as a rent-a-cop for a few silly moments as well.
This one came out in 2004, right after his breakout performances in Bruce Almighty and Anchorman. Nothing quite that funny for him in this role, but here you can catch him before he shot to fame the next year as a star.
Final Grade: B-
Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: I wouldn't go out of my way to buy it or stop everything that I'm doing if it came on, but it's a harmless bit of fun that if it was on, I would likely stop flipping channels.
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