Surviving the Sleepover
Plotline: new girl in town starting new school gets invited by mean rich girl to her mansion for sleepover with mean girl's friends. Mean girl has ulterior motive which is exacerbated at mansion when mean girl's stepbrother/love interest shows attraction to new girl, which strengthens mean girl's plot to get revenge. Which leads me to my main complaint about this movie: there is no hint or mention as to the fate of mean girl Melissa at the end, after her attempts at revenge. Kind of frustrating to be left hanging, but I suppose we're left to assume that due to her young age and since no one was killed, she most likely went on to receive psychiatric help in lieu of criminal charges.
Pace too slow with boring plot. Entire movie could've been an hour long from start to finish with so little happening and quicker pace. And the female lead 'Hannah' was not a good actress. On top of bad acting, she seemed to be smiling in almost every scene she was in, no matter what lines she was saying.
Yet another 'Hannah' in a long line of Lifetime's same female names they use over and over and over: Hannah, Sarah, Allison, Ashley, Abby, Melissa, Maggie, Grace, Claire, Emily/Emma, etc., ad nauseam. As I've said in several of my imdb reviews, there are so many other names in the world, for example - 'Violet' in the recent 'She's Obsessed With My Husband'. FINALLY a different name used for a female character, which was a pleasant surprise.
Soooo tired of the worn out STUPID Lifetime trope of the person who calls police on the villain turning their back to the villain as they start the call, leaving them wide open for the villain to come up behind them with skillet/hammer/board/crowbar/poker/bat/whatever weapon they can grab and knock them out. The movie in which this happens the most is the aforementioned 'She's Obsessed With My Husband' - at least three times - when once per movie is too much/bad enough. Of course, if it didn't happen (as it never would in real life since no one's that dumb), then there would be no more action and violence and suspense and the movie would be over.
I realize no effort is ever made to try to cast parents and their kids - or siblings - who look at least somewhat alike or like they come from the same family, but this was ridiculous: Hannah looked nothing like her mother. In fact, Abby looked like she could actually be the woman's daughter in real life; they looked so much alike. I've never mentioned that before in my reviews because there's always the fact that the offspring could look like the parent we don't see - in this case, Hannah's dad. But there should be more effort made to have the kids look like the parent(s) in the movie.
All in all, a disappointment and time wasted on yet more below average LMN fodder.
Grade D / 2 out of 10.
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