Sleepover
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Sleepover is a 2004 American teen film directed by Joe Nussbaum and starring Alexa Vega, Sara Paxton, Mika Boorem, Scout Taylor-Compton, Kallie Flynn Childress, Sean Faris, Steve Carell, Jane Lynch, Sam Huntington, Brie Larson and Evan Peters.
Plot
In the summer before starting high school, Julie and her best friends, Hannah , Yancy, and Farrah, have a slumber party. They decide they're going to use the night to shed their nerdy reputations, and they end up in a scavenger hunt against a group of "popular" girls. To win, Julie and her friends have to steal a car and a boy's underpants and sneak into a nightclub, all without Julie's mom finding out.
Why It Sucks
- Steve Carell gets tormented in pain in this film.
- Too much product placement (From Old Navy, American Online, Coca-Cola, Disney Channel, and Skippy Peanut Butter).
- Poorly written characters.
- Nothing more but a mockbuster of Mean Girls (which released 2 months earlier in the same year).
- Obsessed over filter water at the very end.
- There's also product placement for Legally Blonde 2, which is also from MGM.
Reception
The film underperformed at the box office opened at #10 in the box office with $4,171,226. The film would later make $9,436,390 in the United States and $712,563 internationally, resulting in a $10,148,953 gross worldwide, on a $10 million budget.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 15% based on 101 reviews, with an average rating of 3.7/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Tween girls will enjoy this sugar coated fluff, but others will find Sleepover a snooze." On Metacritic the film has a score of 33% based on reviews from 29 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews."