Sydney White 2007

Critics score:
37 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Maureen M. Hart, Chicago Tribune: Sydney White, according to its producers, is a sequel to Hilary Duff's A Cinderella Story, and it shares with that 2004 film the vacuum-like ability to suck the fun out of a fairy tale. Read more

Joshua Katzman, Chicago Reader: While the film's premise is shamelessly hokey and Joe Nussbaum's direction is at best pedestrian, props are due the young cast, especially Bynes, whose can-do optimism seems genuine if ultimately overdone. Read more

Tasha Robinson, AV Club: What's the excuse for dumbing down Snow White to moron level? Are there really people out there who thought the original version just didn't have enough toilet jokes? Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A feeble college comedy aimed at middle schoolers. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Dorks deserve better than this. Amanda Bynes deserve better than this. Most importantly, audiences deserve better than this. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A perky and chaste Y.A. update on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: This is not your middle-schooler's Amanda Bynes. While her female fans will appreciate that 21-year-old Bynes is growing up with them, maybe her next movie will stretch beyond the fractured fairy tale. Read more

Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: This surprisingly clever coed reworking of Snow White does for dorks what Revenge of the Nerds did for, well, you know. Read more

Luke Y. Thompson, L.A. Weekly: Unfortunately, this film doesn't have the cojones to take the fairy tale all the way Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: Sydney White is a carnival of ethnic and social stereotypes rising up against the lily-white status quo. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Part fairy tale, part college comedy, totally unoriginal and a tad offensive, Sydney White stars Amanda Bynes as a new student who starts a rebellion against the school's oppressive Greek establishment. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: On television, Amanda Bynes' tendency toward slapstick can come across as sitcom-cute. Blown up on the big screen, it's the equivalent of a hammer hitting you over the head. For 90 minutes. In surround sound. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Snow White joins a sorority and gets some Revenge of the Nerds friends in Sydney White, a cute comedy for girls. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Sydney White is an Amanda Bynes comedy that shows the after-effects a long-running TV sitcom can have on an actress. Read more

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: A lot of the acting is in the broad Disney Channel style. Read more

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Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: As Sydney White again demonstrates, [Amanda Bynes] just doesn't seem to have found a script that lives up to her comic potential. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: How hard could it be to make a clever parody of Snow White? Very hard, apparently. Read more

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Claudia Puig, USA Today: Sydney White's message of embracing all kinds of people and not quaking in fear of the elite and popular is a sound one, but each twist and turn is so telegraphed and expected that the story feels wan and the comedy feeble. Read more

Lael Loewenstein, Variety: ...should satisfy Bynes fans looking for a pleasant, innocuous follow-up to her last vehicle. Read more