The Sleepover

Name: The Sleepover
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Released: August 21, 2020
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 46
Cast: Cree Cicchino, Enuka Okuma, Erik Griffin, Janelle Feigley, Joe Manganiello

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): August 21, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Cree Cicchino, Enuka Okuma, Erik Griffin, Janelle Feigley, Joe Manganiello, Karla Souza, Ken Marino, Malin Åkerman, Maxwell Simkins, Sadie Stanley

Summary: In 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 anIn 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-flame of Margot’s (Joe Manganiello), the siblings must team up to rescue their parents over the course of one action-packed night that they’ll never forget. … Expand

Director: Trish Sie

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Polygon Karen Han

Aug 27, 2020

It’s just enough entertainment to provide fodder for one diverting sleepover, but it’ll be forgotten as soon as the morning dawns. Read full review

Barry Hertz

Aug 19, 2020

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. Read full review

The Guardian Leslie Felperin

Aug 21, 2020

Sie 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. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Aug 21, 2020

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. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Aug 22, 2020

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. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Aug 20, 2020

The film simply lurches loudly from one mundane action scene to the next. Read full review

Kyle Turner

Aug 21, 2020

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. Read full review

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NobodyYouKnow

Sep 29, 2020

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 thatThe 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.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Sep 11, 2020

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.

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