Sugar & Spice

2001 "Why would the most popular girl in school wear a mask?"
5.7| 1h21m| PG-13| en
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When Jack and Diane find themselves in an unexpected adult situation, the A-Squad comes to their rescue. In order to help their friend Diane, the A-Squad goes where no cheerleader has gone before: taking on a little after-school project known as bank robbery. But the A-Squad does things their way -- with sugar and spice -- forever changing their friendship, their future and the nation's notion of teen spirit.

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FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
pmcguireumc I hate to say it, this is one of my guilty pleasure films. Truly one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. Excellent cast. Great pacing. Wonderful dialog! I have seen this film numerous times, and every time I watch it, I laugh. With such great lines like "Don't be a whore and a murderer" and "So what are you anorexic or bulimic? Just skinny. Don't make me hate you." Hilarious. Mena Suvari is awesome, as is Marley Shelton. Both are great. Of course, the cast as a whole is very well matched. I would recommend this to anyone that enjoyed the wit of Juno, though it is not as forced as Juno was at times (not to say that Juno wasn't a great film, it was).Also, keep an eye out for the hilarious opening scene with the mascot and the old principal. Enjoy. It's an under appreciated classic.
elshikh4 The movie seems short, with unnecessary parts too. For instance it delayed till the end of its first half to hit its point of attack (the idea of the heist) to have us for quite some time watching just the problem which led to that !. Plus, what's the need for an extra girl (the daughter of the weapons' dealer) where she did nothing to the story or the comedy ??, or what's the need for free nasty scenes like the big black worker woman at the prison who looks lustfully to the young girls' short skirts ??!! Actually I suspect also how the 2 minutes of "where are they now?" part was added just to lengthen the movie's running time which's originally a 73 minutes long only. Let alone how its third act (the robbery itself) wasn't as hot and ironic as it should have been. However, it's fresh comedy, with smart conflict where the unexpected always happens. The cast was totally cute and comic with great sense of humor to mock scornfully at the teen girls. The hidden satire gives it a little deepness that could make it live longer; you must rob to survive, the perfect role models aren't that perfect after all, and it even shows how the dirty money financed the politicians, or how the politicians themselves can be so dull (to have a gang's head as a wife, and know nothing about it !). It's a good little crime comedy that assured how the unfair society must be robbed, and how the teen polished girls can plan and achieve the perfect crime. It looks like some revenge on anyone ever sees that girls are weak or less intelligent than men. No wonder I suppose, since it came from 2 girls already : director Francine McDougall, and scriptwriter Lona Williams (Mandy Nelson is an alias Williams used). (Williams) is the one who wrote (Drop Dead Gorgeous) 2 years earlier, where she illustrated how the girls got sugar and bad spice, here she clarified the existence of the good spice anyway. But it could have been better, lighter and stronger. Still its best moments are : dealing with life by Madonna's wisdom, and seeing (Melissa George) in this red underwear…That was SEXY!
FrankyDesiree I loved this movie. It's just so funny. For me it's like Mean Girls, I'll never get tired of watching it. I would recommend this movie to anyone. The Cleo character is so funny. The random things she says about Conan O'Brien are just so great. And I really like how they showed teen pregnancy. They didn't make it completely horrible but they didn't make it all flowers and sunshine either. They made it funny but at the same time you really don't really want to go off and get yourself pregnant. I also really like the girl that plays Fern. And seeing James Marsden play a big partially-brainless jock when he's played Cyclops (the 'second in command') in X-men is so different and funny. I'd actually recommend watching X-men and then Sugar and Spice just for that super-funny contrast. Great movie. Lots of laughs.
Enrique Sanchez Please, spare me of these movies that teach us that crime is fun and justified. Couple that with a vacuous script with an intense desire to be a Farrelly or a Coen brother, plus the lives of yet ANOTHER group of supposedly high school age people acting out their Dawson Creek-brand teen angst complete with a GenXYZ soundtrack that woefully tries to make the movie "feel" cool and, we have intensely and painfully inept satire.This isn't even watered-down 'Ferris Bueller'...I'd rather watch a traffic light change.Only one scene stands out as anywhere near worth the price of admission: when the Betty Masked girls meet a Richard Nixon Masked friend. It's a surreal moment. Priceless even.But for the rest of it, I'd rather have a toothache. At least I can apply some Benzocaine(tm) to stop the pain.