The Slumber Party

I thoroughly enjoyed this move. It has good acting in it, and it genuinely made me laugh. The characters in it were believable to be real people. In the end, when they remember what happened last night, it's a collection of videos from that night. It really added personality to the movie, and made it even funnier. It was realistic too because it just looked like badly taken snapchat videos. The part that I didn't like, was the romance. I did not really enjoy that part of the movie as much as the rest of it. Call it bad acting on the love interest's part or bad writing but it's the reason this is a 9/10. I like that they used a real background, and not a green screen for the movie because it looked much better.

There are so many aspects that are wrong about this movie. It reminds me of a long short film written by a student filmmaker and it looks like one too.

First, is the out of place product placement at the beginning of the movie for Ouija Occult Spirit Boards. It's clearly product placement, and I can only ask why, why push it on junior high and high school kids.

Second, is the need to try to target every racial and gender demographic possible.

Third, a very confusing mod podge of era's that looks like it's occurring in the 1970's or 80's from vehicles to decor, only to also have modern cell phones.

Fourth, it looks super low budget, like a student film. Student filmmakers generally have only a few thousand dollars to work with or less, so they utilize friends and families homes and local locations, without a budget for an art department to set the look. I've seen multiple student shorts during film school that look higher budget than this movie.

Fifth, poor acting from beginning to end.

Sixth, poor screenplay and story. Apparently this movie is a book adaptation. I never read the book, but I hope it was better than the adaption to film, because it was just a poor story.

Seventh, the worse cinematography I've seen in anything released under the Disney license since some of the 1970's Disney movies, when framing shots and scene choices were still in there infancy.

Unfortunately, it's just not that good of a movie. Not very funny, lots of predictability, some of the scenes presented a stereotypical systematic racial overtone about black students that was completely unnecessary.

I am giving it two stars, only because its not the absolutely worst movie I've ever seen, but it's down at the bottom.

The mouse must of been out of town when Disney produced The Slumber Party.

I recently watched this movie and to be honest, I don't like it. There's too many plot holes and the storyline is super confusing and weird, the characters weren't all that great. Anna-Maria acted like a little brat lowkey and Veronica was just weird, the only TOLERABLE characters were Megan and Jake and to me they were the best part of the movie. Overall the movie was dumb, even the Prom Pact was better than this for an Original Disney movie and that movie was cliché in more ways than one. Disney can do WAYYY better than THIS movie, this generally seems like a cash-grab and I DO NOT RECOMMEND.

The first act of this movie had me a bit exhausted as a viewer. The character development just wasn't hitting well and there were clearly some structural problems to the film as a whole. I struggled to watch in general - that is until the entire film was uplifted by Tyler Gula's performance as an extra. He had a certain way of making the background worth paying attention to. The scenes at the Chatahooche Onion Fest, where Gula's performance predominantly shines, stood no chance without his support. I don't normally let one good performance determine the outcome of my movie reviews, but it feels insulting and almost inhumane not to give this movie the 10/10 that it deserves with Gula's skill and craftsmanship. I look forward to a sequel, hopefully where Gula gets more screen time.

If this movie looks familiar to you it's because it is. Remember the Hangover movies? Which by the way is now streaming on Netflix. Disney copied that one and made it teenage style. They need to come up with ideas that hasn't been done before. It's a fun movie though- the mother hiring a hypnotist that told them there was a trigger word that they would remember everything they did the night of Anna Maria's birthday party. Megan wanted to try something different to get out of her comfort zone. Well tee peeing the neighbor's house took definitely accomplished that. It took me back to my teenage years when we used to do that. If you are a teenager or just a teenager at heart you'll like this movie. I would stick with the Hangover though.