hockeyfreak101

This movie was terrible. The story line seemed quite interesting at first but still it turned out to be pretty bad. Jill (the horribly wooden Camilla Belle) goes over her cell phone minutes and is forced to babysit for a rich family who lives in a beautiful mansion in the middle of nowhere. It's the perfect job. Nice house to explore, children are asleep, fridge is stocked. Until she starts getting calls from a stranger asking "have you checked the children?". Of course you all know, the calls are coming from inside the house.

First of all, there was no twist ending. The stranger just ended up being some random serial killer, stalking and murdering young babysitters. The killer and the girl were such idiots. A pointless waste of time.

Second, this movie had plot holes the size of Texas. For example, when the police trace Jill's call and find out they are coming from inside the house, why did they not catch on and tell her that there is a serial killer? How did the blonde friend know where the house was? The blonde friend was killed outside, how did her body get in the bathroom of the house?

Camilla Belle is one of the worst actresses to ever grace the screen. She was just so bad it was unbelievable. Line after line was delivered without emotion and she had this dumb blank stare constantly on her face.

She's pretty though, and her all wet in the pool kept me from falling asleep.

1/10.

The opening scenes are always interesting and so are the cases. But the show takes a complete nosedive into the ground after the first fifteen or twenty minutes, with their questionable law practices and epiphanies which come out of the sky, like in this episode "Romeo and Juliet Murders" Annabeth just pulls a motive, the right motive to be exact out of her @$$.

The lead actress is pretty bad. She looks like "Prosecutor Barbie" and seems so out of place in the court room. You may think I'm being stereotypical, I really don't mind beautiful perky-looking prosecutors but the actress seems as if she's uncomfortable in her role. She always has the same facial expressions.

Kimberly Elise is much better, a glowing halo of light in this very bleak television show. As for the rest of the actors and actresses, main and guest starring, not much can be said about their talent (or rather lack of).

I also love the fact that the defense seems so captivated by Annabeth's speeches and she always wins the case. Generally formulaic story lines, sticking to the crime drama stereotype.

It's worth watching once, but overall, very forgettable.

Wow. I must say, Sleepover is one of the absolute worst films I've ever seen in my whole life. Being a huge movie buff (I have a home theater system and I rent movies every Saturday night and go to one in the theaters every Friday night). Want to know why the film is so bad? Let's start off with the characters. Every single one of them is so shallow and one-dimensional. Julie, the main character, bitches about her perfect life, is self-absorbed and selfish, and is mean to her parents who just want to make her life better. Same with all the rest of the characters. The acting is just so bad it makes me sick. Alexa Vega has got as much acting ability as a Barbie doll, and the usually good Mika Boorem is awful as well. Sleepover also encourages bad behavior (the girls sneaking out of the house, sneaking into a bar, causing havoc in an Old Navy store). The plot has as much redeeming quality as a paper bag. Do 14/15 year old girls still listen to Spice Girls and go on scavenger hunts? Does it really matter that all this was to sit at the "popular fountain"? And yes, you guessed it, the ending is that Julie gets the guy and wins a spot at the popular people's fountain. And, what's slightly disturbing is that the guy Julie gets is like, 18 or 17 while she is still like 14/15. In conclusion, AVOID Sleepover like the black plague.

I personally do not understand all the hype which came with the film "Thirteen", making it one of the most overrated indie films of the past 10 years. Because it's shocking? Well, not really. There are more realistic and shocking indies out there, which don't get the recognition they deserve. Because it's written by a thirteen year old? No, it's not even *really* written by a thirteen year old. She co-wrote the script. It shows too. OK. I'll stop with the vicious bashing and move onto an in depth review of this film.

The story is very simple, a girl falls into the wrong crowd, wait not even the wrong crowd but just the wrong person and gets caught up in the fast paced whirlwind of drugs, sex and rock 'n' roll (kidding about the last one!OK I know I'm not funny). It doesn't fall into the after school special, I'll give it that. The camera-work, I can't say I didn't like the appeal of it. The dialogue was slightly shoddy, but was saved by the great acting, mainly coming from Holly Hunter.

The one thing about this film is that it doesn't really show the hard side effects of drugs and that sort of lifestyle. If you want a movie which will put you off drugs for quite some time, watch Requiem for a Dream. Or if you want a movie which will put you off sex for a long time, watch Kids. The only thing it really touches on is the social effects of drugs, sex, shoplifting and drinking-the character basically loses her relationship with her very stupid mother during all of this. I did think the scenes of cutting were quite well done, though.

OK, so in all it was an OK/good movie. 7/10 stars for

To start off this review I must say, that when I first discovered the corny box cover I thought it had to be a comedy. When I read the back I figured it must be one of those dark comedy films. And with a cast like that, how could it not be??? I have never been so wrong in my whole life.

I have seen many movies before, and none have held such great performances as this, and hardly any have spoken to the audience in such a powerful way. This film is quite disturbing, mainly because of its brutal honesty. The characters are deeply flawed yet still ring true to real life. Out of the main characters, you can at least relate to one, if not all.

The actors....wow. I can't believe that Josh Peck gave such an amazing performance as George, the bully or basically any of the cast members. I would have NEVER known that he was the boy from The Amanda Show. In fact the only actor I expected to pull this off was Rory Culkin. The performances were so natural, so beautiful I almost forgot I was watching a film.

Sure, many people hated this movie. That's their choice and no matter which film you see, there's bound to be haters. Yet, I think that the people who hated it just haven't looked deep enough into it, into the dark underlying.

Mean Creek is a very unique and individual film. You can't even really put it into a category. The atmosphere, emotion and message this film brings across to the audience is so real and gives you the final slap across the face at the end of the film. It really hits you. I think that some people who hated this movie are just scared of it. I think they're scared of just how much reality there is in it and the heartbreaking proof behind it.

The dialogue is also pretty damn real. Jacob Aaron Estes really captures the essence of what its like to be a male adolescent...the dialogue feels like its coming straight from the heart.

This movie portrays the state of mind of a teenager beautifully. Definitely 10/10.