Sugar & Spice

Pros: Entertaining black comedy
Cons: Not for everyone. Silly at times. Subject will upset some.

Black comedies can be very entertaining when they are done well. Unfortunately, several of them have failed for one reason or another. Sugar amp; Spice< b>< i> had some problems but was very entertaining overall. The members of the A ...

Pros: A black comedy with some very funny moments.
Cons: A black comedy with some fall-flat moments.

Preamble
In my continuing quest to embarrass myself as a movie reviewer, I bring you this weeks matinee bargain, Sugar and Spice.

I thought that if the film was as good as the trailers, this was a serious hit on our hands....

Pros: A lot more laughs than you'd expect and, of course, plenty of hot girls
Cons: Peters out toward the end

Late January last year was dead season at the multiplex, the kind of time when Eye of the Beholder could lead the box office with an $8 million opening weekend. This year seems a different story – I can’t head out to the theater on a Saturday night and...

Pros: It's a great movie about bank robbing cheerleaders!
Cons: It's a great movie about bank robbing cheerleaders!

Would you be surprised if I told you Sugar & Spice is better than any comedy that has been released in theaters, all summer long? Would it shock you, if I said it was more original, and surprisingly, more entertaining than the current...

Pros: a few semi-funny moments
Cons: everything else

The begining of the movie shows five girls from Lincoln High School A squad chearleeding team and how they more or less do everything together (even have that time of the month together). Well after the leader of the A squad knocks out the new boy on the...

Pros: Some smart writing and some cute performances
Cons: SLIGHT!!!!!

So, they're cheerleaders and they rob banks. That must have been the pitch for Sugar and Spice. And the studio exec must have asked if there was anything else to it. And they must have been greeted with the blankest of stares. With a running time of less...

Pros: Well-conceived idea and a wicked script
Cons: Poor final 20 minutes that ruin mostly that which went before.

The pitch must have gone something like this: “It’s Point Break meets Clueless! It’s The Usual Suspects with cheerleaders! It’s got lying and deceit for the thriller fans and Rachel Blanchard in pigtails and a cheerleading outfit for...

Pros: Top-notch cast, high production values, decent music soundtrack
Cons: Not much to do with cheerleading, guns, or Betty dolls

How often do you have a movie that sort of only reminds you of bits and pieces of other movies? Someone mentioned this film was like Jawbreaker combined with Set It Off. Close. I'd venture to say it's more like Set It Off combined ...

Pros: fun teen movie- great for a Friday/Saturday night with friends
Cons: not too much depth, some parents may find objectionable plot elements

The new movie Sugar and Spice tells the story of a group of cheerleaders who band together when one of their own gets in trouble. The five girls have somewhat stereotypical personalities- there is the leader, the brain, the rebel, and the religious...

Pros: It's a sassy, irreverent, saucy teen crime-caper.
Cons: Memories of the Columbine High School shootings in 1999

Cheerleaders become bank robbers...that had to be the sales pitch for this off-beat, teen crime-caper that inexplicably tickles the funny bone.

To begin with, there are these five nubile cheerleaders at Lincoln High School. They're...

Pros: Some good comic performances by Marley Shelton and Marla Sokoloff.
Cons: Only mildly amusing and anticlimactic.

It's Bring It On meets Set It Off! Given how Sugar & Spice tells the sordid story of a group of bank robbing cheerleaders, could there be a more apt description? Yes and no. While that description pretty well sums up what the film...

Pros: um.....slightly funny moments
Cons: bad acting, dumb plot, plot gaps, bad habits, bad language...etc.

Well, as I have mentioned in previous epinions, I am a twenty-year-old female and it is my habit to rent a movie or two with my roomates every friday night. Last night I decided not to go with them so I had no say in the movie of choice but I did watch...

Pros: Pretty girls, great one liners, decent photography, passable characterization
Cons: Weak screenplay, predictable, not enough steak to support the sizzle.

Well, you know, here's a funny thing.

It's pretty damned rare that I leave before the movie's over. In fact, I can't think of an occurrance in the last 5 years. My esteemed colleague Steve Persall at the St Pete times and I often disagree...

Pros: Good performances and a strong directorial debut.
Cons: Uneven script has no new ideas and does not develop characters.

For some strange reason, no one has succeeded in creating an enjoyable movie about cheerleaders. The downfall of all such efforts is always the same; the filmmakers never allow their principle characters to evolve beyond their peppy, vacuous, and...

Pros: Hilarious comedy, out of this world funny plotline
Cons: A little pointless

Sugar & Spice is a hilarious comedy about teenagers robbing a bank when life gets desperate. The film itself is a brain-dead teen flick, but it is pretty much on purpose because it's stupid/funny.

The film stars Mary Shelton as Diane Weston,...