
Jack and Diane were lovers, two crazy kids living in the heartlands. Airheaded Diane captains the cheerleading squad, who follow her through whatever she does. Jack is, of course, the football team's star quarterback. When Diane becomes pregnant, the two are thrown out of their homes and move into an apartment where they try to live on Jack's part-time salary from clerking at a video store. Meanwhile both continue in school - cheerleading and quarterbacking. When Diane realiz... (Full plot summary below)
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Jack and Diane were lovers, two crazy kids living in the heartlands. Airheaded Diane captains the cheerleading squad, who follow her through whatever she does. Jack is, of course, the football team's star quarterback. When Diane becomes pregnant, the two are thrown out of their homes and move into an apartment where they try to live on Jack's part-time salary from clerking at a video store. Meanwhile both continue in school - cheerleading and quarterbacking. When Diane realizes that they're not making it financially, she recruits the other cheerleaders to help her rob a bank. Their cheerleader oath of all for one commits them to helping her. A local hood gives them guns in exchange for their promise to put his homely daughter on the cheerleading squad.
Leave your thoughts about Sugar & Spice.
| Hollywood ReporterDavid HunterThere are mucho storytelling dodges and gaping plot holes that make Sugar barely watchable. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasAmusingly subversive, thanks to sharp writing and direction, by Mandy Nelson and Francine McDougall, respectively. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt's is not a great high school movie like "Election," but it's alive and risky and saucy. |
| Mr. ShowbizCody ClarkIf you're in the mood for a helping of lite cheesecake, you ought to find plenty of reason to shake your pom-poms. |
| L.A. WeeklyJohn PattersonAny movie offering a Muzak version of the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop"warrants an immediate and unqualified recommendation. |
| Toronto StarPeter HowellWatching a teen flick as morally bankrupt as Sugar & Spice ... you have to wonder if Hollywood is really getting the message about gratuitous film violence. |
| Radio Free EntertainmentAndrew ManningAn amusing sendup of high school cheerleader movies, with its would-be bank robbers played to bimbo-ish perfection. |
| TV GuideMaitland McDonaghGoofy and inconsequential, but pretty damned cute. |
| Cinema SightWesley LovellEveryone has a film that they truly enjoy, but find it hard to admit. "Sugar & Spice" is a movie that could easily become one's "guilty pleasure." |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversGive the girls a cheer, but remember: "Bring It On" is still the poo, Missy. Take a big whiff. |