SummaryIn this family adventure-comedy, Clancy (Sadie Stanley) and her kid brother Kevin (Maxwell Simkins) discover that their seemingly normal stay-at-home mom Margot (Malin Åkerman) is actually a former high-end thief in the witness protection program. When both their mom and dad (Ken Marino) are kidnapped and forced to pull one last job with an ex-fl... Read More
Directed By:Trish Sie
Written By:Sarah Rothschild
The Sleepover
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Aug 27, 2020
64
It’s just enough entertainment to provide fodder for one diverting sleepover, but it’ll be forgotten as soon as the morning dawns.
Aug 19, 2020
63
A 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.
Aug 19, 2020
58
Softer 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.
Aug 22, 2020
50
Sleepover 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.
Aug 21, 2020
50
The 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.
Aug 21, 2020
30
Design 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.
Aug 21, 2020
30
As 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.
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Sep 29, 2020
7
The 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.
Sep 11, 2020
5
A Netflix exclusive that feels like a lost Disney Channel film. In all honesty I don't know what its target audience is because it's far from being directly childish but it's also far from being serious entertainment for older audiences. Even so, it was pretty bad.
