Such a frustrating disappointment

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Sleepover (2004): Dir: Joe Nussbaum / Cast: Alexa Vega, Mika Boorem, Kallie Flynn Childress, Scout Taylor-Compton, Sara Paxton: Another mindless teen comedy worth sleeping through. It suggests adventure when entering that next stage of growth but it mainly plays as an encore for vulgar sexual humour where these girls get away with behaviour that perhaps they should not. Four girls about to enter high school are talked into participating in a risky scavenger hunt. The catch being that the mother of one of the girls believes that they are having a slumber party. Lame concept deteriorates into numerous situations to get a guy's boxer shorts and the crown at the dance, etc. Director Joe Nussbaum has little sense of timing and relies mainly on flashy locations. Alexa Vega of Spy Kids fame heads the cast as the girl initially challenged with this nonsense. Mika Boorem plays her best friend proving that if one person walks into stupidity then another must follow as a rule of friendship. Sara Paxton makes an appearance and it is about as bad as her mermaid film where she is basically cast to look good. Kallie Flynn Childress and Scout Taylor-Compton round out the girls and between them all they have the combined personality of a pair of dirty underwear. None of this is funny as it plays as the latest sex teen romp worth the sleeping pills to get through. Score: 2 / 10

I really do like this movie. I have read a lot of the reviews and a lot did not like it. But, that's OK. I could see a lot of things that I could question. I am amazed at watching these kids act. To me this movie is like a Junior High "American Graffiti" about the mischief of high school students one night before school starts. There's car taking, cop embarrassing, love, and so on. An unforgettable night for sure.Julie, Hannah, Farrah, and Yancey were not really planning to leave the house. But Stacie, the quick thinking, rotten to the core, villain comes up with a scavenger hunt that easily gives her team the advantage over Julie and gang. Stacie has lovely things to say, "Steve Phillips-dream on", "You're Orange", "She broken", "that was excruciating." It's Hannah that has no fear in taking them on. All the while Julie is rather uptight about the idea. Especially stealing a pair of Steve's boxer shorts. By the way, Steve is Julies heart-throb and Hannah convinces her that this is the reason it will help establish who she is in high school. Julie's feeling is what a large part of what the movie is about: getting caught.(by parents, night club security, Pro Tec security, Steve Phillips-all for a bit of suspense).The two teams get on with the game. Luckily Yancey has access to an electric car whose father said she could use in case of emergency. She admits that the fact that they need a car for the scavenger hunt is an emergency. Stacie is so sure they will win they take the hunt a little more like the slow and confidant while Julie and team approach it dead serious.One event important that neither team realizes is that Steve and a friend see a girl in a red dress on a skate board comes rolling right in front of them while they are in his jeep at a stop sign. As desirable as he is to girls, he obviously wants to find out who this girl is, even referring to his elementary school picture annual. That girl is Julie. Stacie's team sees them ride by why they have been buying juicers and suddenly have to jump in the car and catch up. Both teams reach the high school parking lot at the same time and thus tie.From there they go into the high school dance. The winner is the one that gets the crown. From here is the movie like every other teen or tween movie. Is it predictable. You have a high school, a dance, mostly high school students, a pretty good band. Maybe things go good or not so good. Or even both. Whatever happens to Julie, Farrah, Yancey, and Hannah, it seems like a night they will remember for a long time e. But, this movie had a lot of things that had to happen, good or bad in order for this movie to have been made.

Sleepover is a great movie. For anyone under the age of 10 that is.This movie was so awful that I decided to create an account for the exact purpose to write this review. In this terribly cliché film, our main character, Julie Corky (Vega) has a slumber party on the last day of year 8. She invites popular girl Staci (Paxton) who declines, saying that she is going to the high school dance with a her boyfriend. (Did I mention she was blonde? And what do you know, Staci and Julie used to be best friends back in the day, how very original!) Mainly due to her best friend moving next year, Julie is worried that she will not be popular enough to sit at "the fountain", because in high school being popular is oh so important! Somehow at the sleepover the girls get involved in a scavenger hunt with Staci's friends, the prize being a spot at "the fountain" and the losers having to sit next to a garbage tip (*note that this is completely unrealistic, what school would have lunch tables in such an unsanitary place?)Okay, here's where it get interesting! These 14 year-olds who are under the driving age somehow obtain a car and manage to drive it, then complete ridiculous tasks such as stealing the popular guy's underwear and getting into a club, while being chased by a policeman who has nothing better to do with his time. The funny thing is, that while at the club, overweight chubby girl, Yancy, wallows to herself about never getting a boyfriend. Then, can you believe it, an overweight guy comes up and starts talking to her, much to her surprised disbelief. Now this would have been okay, if it weren't for the fact that this guy had to be at least 21 to be working in a club, and it sends out a message that if you're fat you can only get a boyfriend whose fat too!So, any points for guessing how it ends? Somehow Julie manages to get her and her friends into the dance by giving a some-what inspiring speech to the ticket girl who was not popular in high school, by convincing her to "let her have her chance". Things must be looking up for Julie because not only did she score the lunch spot, but she somehow ends up with the popular guy who didn't know she existed until a few hours ago, when he saw her in a totally unflattering crouched position on a skateboard. He gives her his crown and they dance, but in the race to get back home she drops it. Somehow, the next day he appears in her cubby house (which is kinda creepy) with the crown. Now why would a guy, 3 years older than you, waist his time wandering the streets looking for a lost crown? Beats me, I only hope they would stop making these dumb movies.****AVOID AT ALL COSTS****

I've read many of the reviews that everyone's posted for this movie, and I have to say that I do agree with a good number of them. I also found the movie to be very funny.Though the movie captures its target audience the acting was not that good. I was surprised to hear spice playing at the sleepover.It's nice to see that they are still remembered.I have to say that the movie was predictable and it was obvious that julies gang is going to win. As compared to this movie i found Mean Girls to be much better. It is more entertaining and the movie makes sense and is believable while at some point this movie became unbelievable like the part where she is riding on skates and trying to get home before her father finds out that she is gone