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Sugar and Spice by Karen Moline "Get ready to cheer for the bad girls!" blares the tag-line for this tepid, tasteless and totally idiotic waste of celluloid...unless you're a dodgy old codger sitting in the back row of a darkened theater whose idea of a good time is getting your rocks off on 90 minutes of nubile thighs and pom-poms. YOU GO, PERVERT! When sweetie-pie cheerleader Diane (Marley Shelton) gets knocked up with twins by the star quarterback (James Marsden, running out of testosterone amid all the estrogen and tampons), she and lame lover-boy get kicked out of their homes. WAY TO BE, MOM AND DAD! Broke and despairing, she convinces her four best friends and other members of her cheer-crazy A squad, which includes Kansas (Mena Suvari, who played a rah-rah role with far greater depth and poignance in American Beauty), to help her rob a bank so she can pay the rent. THIS PLOT RULES! Naturally, they're envied by the B squad member (Marla Sokoloff) with no talent and a lot of attitude, who wants to see them miss their splits and flips at pep rallies. FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! PAGE 1 | 2 |
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Inspired by Keanu Reeves' bravura performance in Point Blank, Diane and the gang watch other robbery flicks, like Reservoir Dogs and Dog Day Afternoon, to plot their heist. STEAL THAT STORY! Conveniently helped by Kansas' inmate mom, played by a nearly unrecognizable Sean Young, who sends them Betty doll masks, the girls manage to procure guns, devise a getaway plan, disguise themselves as pregnant Betty dolls, and get the dough. Will they get away with it? DO YOU CARE? Clearly trying to be a snarky version of the "happy" American Pie/Clueless genre, Sugar and Spice is in serious need of a glucose transfusion and a lethal dose of nutmeg. Flat as a gymnast's butt and just as shapeless, it's about as believable as the plastic Betty-doll masks with huge round Pokemon eyes and hair the color of cheap butter. SELL THEM CHEAP! Written by Mandy Nelson and directed by Francine McDougal, and not screened for us woebegone critics--you know what that means--it's girl power at its worst. GET A LIFE! What did you think of Sugar and Spice? Sound off in the Movie Forum. Photos courtesy of New Line. PAGE 1 | 2 |