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Critics Consensus: Amanda Bynes is charming, but Sydney White is a poorly adapted take on Snow White, relying on tired ethnic stereotypes laughs.
Critic Consensus: Amanda Bynes is charming, but Sydney White is a poorly adapted take on Snow White, relying on tired ethnic stereotypes laughs.
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This surprisingly clever coed reworking of Snow White does for dorks what Revenge of the Nerds did for, well, you know.
A lot of the acting is in the broad Disney Channel style.
A perky and chaste Y.A. update on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
One of the dopiest, goofiest, and yes, I guess you can say, sneezy-ist and sleepy-ist, movies of the year.
...should satisfy Bynes fans looking for a pleasant, innocuous follow-up to her last vehicle.
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.
Quickly descends into tedious schmaltz.
...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.
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.
Mashup of Snow White and Revenge of the Nerds is completely predictable but an enjoyable enough view if you don't expect anything but a formula film.
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I loved this movie,and Amanda Bynes is such a great actress!!!!!!!!!!! The story itself is great & even my dad likes this movie lol :) :) :)
It was ok, but not Amanda Bynes at her best.
It was allright, funny at times, the story is quite boring though. If you've seen Revenge of the Nerds, all the way down to the line "I'm in love with a nerd/dork", then you've seen this movie already. Sydney White has grown up amongst construction workers ever since her mother died (when she was 9). She earns a scholarship for college and hopes to follow in the footsteps of her mother and enter the Kappa sorority. When she realized the sorority life wasn't for her, she moved out of the house and moved into "The Vortex,"(Which is called Vortex because it sucks in losers) a house on Greek Row for people who don't belong. There, she meets 7 dorks (the 7 dwarves). She realizes what great people they are, and she gets one of them, Terrance, to run for Student Body President in order to take back what the Greeks have had for so long. When those dreams are denied (Terrance has already graduated), Sydney runs for president herself.
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