Sassy Pants

With its positive gay images, and even a perfectly executed two-step line dance, Sassy Pants is a feel-good movie for girls of both sexes.

Sweet and well-intentioned, Sassy Pants is difficult to dislike, despite its missteps.

Once the film softens, it starts to come unglued.

Well-meaning and, in the end, sweetly redemptive, Sassy Pants would have worn better with more depth, energy and, yes, sass.

Sassy Pants has a slightly ludic atmosphere akin to another tale of teen alienation, Dear Lemon Lima, but it unfolds like a fable in which only Bethany doesn't feel like a canned caricature.

Walking a sometimes wobbly line between charming and cloying.