Brain-dead but pleasantly so.
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02/07/01
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Sugar & Spice (2001)
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Reviews Counted:73
Fresh:21
Rotten:52
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Though this cheerleader comedy has an intriguing premise, it's too empty-headed and saddled with too many lame jokes to live up to it. Also, some critics say the movie is irresponsible in its depiction of teens and guns.
Theatrical Release:Jan 26, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $12,353,614
Synopsis: SUGAR & SPICE is a wicked black comedy about high school, teenage pregnancy, and five bankrobbing cheerleaders armed with semi-automatic weapons. When Diane, (Marley Shelton), a popular high school... [More]
Starring: Marley Shelton, James Marsden, Marla Sokoloff, Mena Suvari
Director: Francine McDougall
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Reviews for Sugar & Spice
Seems designed to amuse people who believe that all teenagers are total morons, which might seem like a subversive tactic for a teen movie, but the film's smugness quickly becomes tedious.
02/07/01
De no ser por lo irregular de su ritmo satírico, hubiera sido una buena y muy disfrutable película.
05/11/01
Can't sustain its silliness, and resorts to a rushed ending that rudely brings reality into the picture.
01/25/01
A frothy motion picture that offers moments of guilty pleasure but isn't good enough to earn a recommendation.
01/29/01
Top CriticWhat this picture needed was a darker, Heathers-like sense of humor.
01/29/01
It's brightly diverting enough most of the time to get it past its shortfall.
01/26/01
Top CriticA surprising amount of the humor stems from well-drawn caricatures and cleverly seeded payoffs.
01/25/01
Top CriticA badly executed black comedy for the teen set.
06/05/02
Struggles with the existential challenge of individuating five (then six, then seven) perky white heterosexual girls wearing identical aquamarine miniskirts and halter tops.
02/08/01
Top CriticA very funny and very entertaining, if not ultimately, very forgettable movie.
02/26/02
It was such a traumatic experience that I really don't want to talk about it for very long.
02/05/01
It's alive and risky and saucy.
01/26/01
Top CriticLike a cut-rate Heathers, this film wants to explore the dark side of teen class warfare but has few tools with which to conduct its study.
01/29/01
Devoid of anything that might resemble cunning or even moderately intelligent commentary.
01/25/01
A feeble teen comedy, minus the comedy.
01/29/01
It means to be knowing and cynical but is just callow.
01/29/01
Top CriticOf course, an unfunny comedy is hardly news. However, even by Tinseltown's impoverished standards, one so utterly bereft is something of a rarity, and thus perversely interesting.
12/23/02
Top CriticI didn't laugh once.
01/26/01
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