When two siblings discover their seemingly normal mom is a former thief in witness protection who has been forced to pull one last job, they team up to rescue her over the course of an action-packed night.... (Full plot summary below)
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When two siblings discover their seemingly normal mom is a former thief in witness protection who has been forced to pull one last job, they team up to rescue her over the course of an action-packed night.
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| IndieWireKate ErblandSofter and safer than a close cousin like “Adventures in Babysitting,” The Sleepover zips between its adult storyline and the wacky hi-jinks of the kids, scarcely noticing it’s the younger set who are far more amusing to watch. |
| PolygonKaren HanIt’s just enough entertainment to provide fodder for one diverting sleepover, but it’ll be forgotten as soon as the morning dawns. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzA giddy and fitfully amusing mashup of "Adventures in Babysitting," "Date Night," the Spy Kids franchise and, um, "Wet Hot American Summer," The Sleepover is the latest entry in Netflix’s experiment in catch-‘em-all entertainment. |
| The GuardianLeslie FelperinSie elicits mostly spontaneous, credible performances from the younger cast, who deliver their wisecracks and banter with aplomb and only occasionally edge into annoying child-actor pertness. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreSleepover is cheerful enough that it passes the time, even as that time passes ever-so-slowly as it stumbles for clues, through a Boston sight gag or two and into the “big finish” that’s more a series of minor busts. Leave this one to the tween-and-unders. |
| RogerEbert.comNick AllenThe frantic adults and kids in Trish Sie’s The Sleepover are often screaming, but that doesn't mean they’re getting anywhere. You’d think that a story about a mom's cool secret and kids breaking curfew would be a lot more fun, especially with a charismatic cast like this, and yet The Sleepover is mostly about killing time, specifically that of your own. |
| CNNBrian LowryThe film simply lurches loudly from one mundane action scene to the next. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeDesign values and Conrad W. Hall's photography are as flatly unimaginative as the rest of the film, which, in its avoidance of distinguishing features, would make a better candidate for witness-relocation anonymity than Margot does. |
| The New York TimesKyle TurnerAs The Sleepover juggles the genres of heist movie, action thriller, scavenger hunt and teen/tween comedy, it never finds an identity which it slips into effortlessly, the way a good thief can. |
| User ReviewNobodyYouKnowThe trailer for this had me thinking this was gonna be yet another brainless, Nickelodeon-type kid's "comedy", so when my daughter asked to watch, I only said yes begrudgingly. Turns out the trailer misrepresented the quality of the humor and acting in this. I was pleasantly surprised that this was genuinely funny -- not tears-in-your-eyes funny, but still elicited a good number of laughs. The cast is really strong; the dad was much funnier than what you see in the trailer. Early on, there's a scene aimed at parents where he's waiting in his car singing "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" by Paula Cole that had me LOLing. Despite a good number of jokes that went over the kids' heads, I wouldn't opt to view this on my own, but if you're gonna watch something with kids (probably age 10+), you can feel better about this option than much of the Nick/Disney pap with similar concepts but far fewer laughs and far worse acting. |
