Sleepover: The Predator Movie Obsessed With Age Gaps

The 2004 movie "Sleepover" stars Alexa Vega as Julie, alongside other notable actors like Evan Peters, Steve Carell, Jane Lynch and Brie Larson. This movie follows Julie and her friends as they complete a questionable scavenger hunt in hopes of winning a sought after high school lunch spot.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:55 Character Intros/Yancy Rant
06:26 Problematic Scavenger Hunt
11:56 8th graders at a CLUB
14:42 Julie steals... underwear?
18:05 High School Dance
21:06 CREEPY WTF
21:57 Conclusion

[@sunidoeslife]

Casey: "and name her something stupid like Yancy" Me: sitting in shock as a Yanci 💀

[@sassygrilledcheese]

💀💀💀💀💀💀 IM SORRY YANCI

[@reganwolf4405]

😂😂😅

[@vladb2154]

Lmfao 😂😂

[@timelesstalesbeauty5394]

I like the name Yancy for the record but it directly means English man so for a girl to be named Yancy it makes little sense to me lol

[@sassygrilledcheese]

@@timelesstalesbeauty5394 Yanci with an "i" is actually way better for some reason.

[@madimiss]

I took the teachers reaction as a “I’m gonna be a registered sex offender” panic attack. That man was not okay.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

lmao they don't even need to take his picture for the offender list. They can just use the one of him and Julie at the club

[@abybergdahl]

As someone who grew up as a fat girl they definitely always made it seem as the older men were the only options for us because no one our age would think we were attractive.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

It was hideous that this was made for young girls to watch and learn from, especially the way they wrote Yancy.

[@MrDN83]

That may be the most horrifying takeaway I have heard from this movie.

[@HeyitsBri_]

Young girls are brainwashed into the weird social connection with weight and age. Skinny girls are young and fat girls are old for whatever reason, but all “should be” attracted to older men but there’s a hierarchy there too. Attractive older guys are for young/skinny girls and unattractive older men are for the fat/old girls

[@z3inab]

Boohoo

[@trishinthecity5584]

I am really sorry to hear that I am also fat too and I won't even settle for older guys too.

[@PlinkusSmoothie]

Steve was def the “where my hug at?” type of senior 💀

[@sassygrilledcheese]

EW STOP (you're not wrong tho)

[@raybug470]

@@sassygrilledcheeseor the “shower…without me?🥺” guys.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

@@raybug470 ok thats enough of the internet for today!

[@goldeegee7156]

Chile dhat part 😂👌🏽

[@rainboweinstein]

Spongebob & co are the only boys the main characters' own age that we really see, and them being presented as so cartoonishly weird really reinforces this focus on older men being the only suitable options for young girls. Barf.

[@raybug470]

Omg Ikr. Like middle school boys aren’t supposed to be super mature and you shouldn’t just expect them to act mature. LIKE HOW HARD IS IT TO DATE PEOPLE YOUR AGE

[@freakytostadacartoon]

I was shocked because as a kid I thought they were in 12 grade, but they are a bunch of 13 year olds this is so gross and inappropriate.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

SO INAPPROPRIATE

[@MermaidMakes]

With what we know about Hollywood now, it’s not surprising. Disgusting , yes, but not surprising in the least.

[@AgTheFreeborn]

When I looked back on this, I thought they were 15/16, which is why they would have gotten in trouble for driving.

[@Texaslife98]

Honestly you’d be surprised to know how realistic a lot of it is (with the grown men approaching her and hitting on them)

[@WilliamTice]

I thought the same about the Lizzie McGuire movie.

[@lisah8438]

Why couldnt they hire actual teenagers to play teen boys?

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Because it’s 2004 and things don’t make sense

[@platanoluver]

they used their budget on 17 year old evan peters I guess

[@ChloeDylann-sf3cd]

​​@@platanoluverthis was before he blew up. At these time he was pretty much just seem as the goofy weird friend as at that point he played that character in most of his roles He his pay likley wasn't that big

[@user-jm6mt1en2c]

According to my sister, because she used to work in a film studio as a production Assistant That's the only reason why they don't hire actual teenagers in films And hire adults to play teens It's because they can do whatever they want with the adults playing Teenagers. Whereas teens cannot work long hours. That's how my sister described it to me when she was working at the studio.

[@Jprager]

@@user-jm6mt1en2cI also low key feel like the shower sequence/underwear scene couldn’t have been done with a kid

[@4ironblovksonepumokinheady845]

If they had just aged up the girls to 16/17 and toned down some of the bullsh*t, for example instead of going to a club they go to a frat party, and made the male actors actual teens this would not have been as bad by a long shot.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

yea they really didn't need to go this extreme

[@spOOkytimes]

Frat parties are way more dangerous imo

[@sassygrilledcheese]

@@spOOkytimes fair lmao

[@MelissaBlue]

I initially thought the teacher's laugh in the club was a laugh of terror that his career was over... but then he agreed to the photograph.

[@Fan_Girl-xd8wy]

i think his laugh was more like...ha ha i´ve been pranked, of course i get a date and it turns out its just a prank

[@Shippo28]

This movie passed through multiple writers

[@sassygrilledcheese]

The amount of adults involved in this production who could have come forward and said "hmm maybe Yancy shouldn't have a 23 year old boyfriend"

[@Shippo28]

@@sassygrilledcheese jail! Jail time for all the adults

[@beneesodeinde5170]

The worst part is Yancy literally SOUNDS LIKE A CHILD 😭

[@kimberleywilliams7802]

I think she was the youngest on the cast too 😭

[@ash_tray]

What are my favorite things is how Julie‘s mom didn’t assume that it was just maybe a scarf that looked like hers, she knew instantly that it was HER scarf

[@grumzley]

All these movies “ hot girls that are mean and popular.” “ alleged misunderstood dork who is actually annoying and basic” Their side kicks Hot boy for the popular girl and dork to fight over

[@sassygrilledcheese]

So accurate

[@apathysarahndrome6602]

Honestly, Steve liking Julie is the least problematic thing in this movie. He looks like an adult but his character is probably what? 16 at most? That’s only two years it’s FINE. The stagehand tho… that’s so bad wtf.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

I mean, even as a teen I thought seniors dating Freshman was a bit weird. I assumed Steve was going into his senior year so 17. Still not nearly as alarming as Yancy's situation.

[@apathysarahndrome6602]

@@sassygrilledcheese Senior is pushing it for sure. You change a lot very quickly at that age. But it's also pretty normal. My assumption was probably 15 MAYBE 16? so that's didn't seem so wild. It's hard to tell they never mention it and his actor is too old 😂

[@KatieRuby]

I always wondered why they introduced a random 30 year old to be Yancys love interest when Spongebob's gang was right there! Could have saved introducing a guy out of the blue and showed that the guy doesnt have to be "fat" to like her

[@sassygrilledcheese]

TRUE. FORREAL. also make them less dumb please

[@ILuvSupernatural1]

"i wanted to call the police several times" i'm laughing so hard already, i can't wait

[@sassygrilledcheese]

I WAS SERIOUS lmaooo

[@StephyM.C.]

It was 2004 and the summer before I became a Freshman in HS. I watched this movie with my friends because we would have a sleepover, that night. When I saw it, I wondered why there was a random Old Navy commercial in the middle, and why the boys looked like College sophomores, is that their teacher, what is going on? It was a bizarre movie and the only thing I liked about it was Evan Peters.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

weirdest tween movie ever

[@vc296]

I watched this movie growing up and I always thought the love interest looked 30

[@lovelyluna961]

He was 22!

[@imbuffysummers]

@@lovelyluna961just as close to 30 as 16

[@V.Pickford]

@@imbuffysummersyou clearly can’t count

[@mundaneamazing]

Captain Marvel, Steve Carrell, Evan Peters, Jane Lynch, girl from Spy Kids.. So many stars

[@kikiminaj9328]

The dad from the goldbergs too like wow

[@VyctoriaBrooks]

Girl from spybkids has me rolling

[@adhderhere]

What's the problem with movie writers??? They are so sick to write a movie like this!! OMG!! 13/14 yr old girls dating grown ups?? Normalizing breaking into someone else's house?? Drinking?? There's not even one single thing that is okay with this movie. Movies' scripts need more control and filters, production should take more care of kids on set and of what they show and teach to their audience. It's disgusting and concerning.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

AGREED

[@tiaslays255]

Well all the other stuff you listed kids actually do. They shouldn’t be dating older men or doing any of these but it’s not uncommon for kids to do most of these. But I definitely disagree with the girl dating an older guy.

[@dali-dog]

I think a big problem is that the movie portrays it all as okay and fun with basically no consequences. When the teacher finds out his student was on a date with him to get alcohol, he isn’t horrified and doesn’t scold her, he’s excited and encourages her. Same thing when the love interest finds out she’s stolen his underwear from his own home, or at least been planning it- he’s somehow not at all worried about that. I don’t think that only pleasant happy things should be allowed to happen in movies, even movies for kids, but it has to be handled well, and this movie really seems to set all the wrong standards and give kids the impression that all these actions are only as bad as a little prank or something

[@fromage_collage]

The executives were like “we want to cash in on this genre real quick while it’s hot, so insert every tacky troupe possible and don’t stick the landing on anything. Also, work in the name Yancy somehow.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Someone on that team had to have had a teacher they hated named Mrs. Yancy or something. The Yancy hate just felt too personal.

[@daniellefinley5770]

“Someone stole my bike” 😂😂 that delivery kills me every damn time

[@parisewellington3664]

Me too! I know someone whos bike got stolen and it reminded me of this scene and i laughed so hard😭😭😭😩

[@zellalaing5439]

Ngl, the spice girl moment is actually funny. Also, I think the popular best friend is brie larson.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

I also thought the spice girls bit was funny lmao

[@adamsmoberly]

The messed up thing is not only this film, but the first two Cinderella Story films had 15 year olds in real life as the main female characters (Hilary, Alexa, & Selena were that age in each film) and their male love interests were over the age of 20 (C.S.1= 22, Sleepover= 22, and the worst one C.S.2= 26…11 years older than Selena). That’s so creepy. And ironically, in Another Cinderella Story (C.S.2), most the cast (who were also Canadian and had Jane Lynch in it as well ironically) were over the age of 20, many of them in their mid/late 20s playing high schoolers. Then the most funniest thing, Zac Efron didn’t sing in the first High School Musical, the guy in C.S.2, Drew Seeley actually sung his part in the first film and went on tour with the cast when they had concerts with the HSM cast. Insane!

[@moonbunny24]

My childhood friend who showed me this movie ended up stealing her mom's car for a joyride in 7th grade and eventually got teen pregnant. (I don't think there's direct causation but I do think she was the type of person to see teens doing stuff they're way too young for as aspirational.)

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Oh no! I hope she's doing well now

[@timelesstalesbeauty5394]

Not direct but kids are so easily influenced… movies like this and that Thirteen movie were made to do that and teach kids their parents don’t know best they need to act like adults and do dangerous adult things. Its gross

[@moyo6606]

The ticket girl scene is diabolical. "Let me in the dance so i wont end up being a loser like you" sheeeeshhh

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Ticket girl ate it too she was like "yas queen"

[@moyo6606]

@sassygrilledcheese I'm like 🗣GIRL STAND UP!

[@LethallxVanity]

Dying, because giving “brain” is another way to say giving head, so “great knees powerful brain” is just… the best accidentally jailable sentence in this entire movie.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

STOP STOP STOPPPPPP WHAT

[@Isabel-sr8ep]

This sounds like something Dan Schneider would put in one of his shows

[@melissabailey5930]

Watched this at a girl scout movie sleepover event. The movie theater would stay open late at night from 11-6am. Think this was our 3rd movie of the night. I felt so cool, struggling to eat a giant jawbreaker I got from winning a movie quiz, surrounded by my fellow nerdy middleschool girls at 4am. 💕

[@sassygrilledcheese]

That sounds like it was fun!

[@suzybearheart530]

That’s so wholesome and fascinating. Did parents chaperone? Did you have to stay all night? I have so many questions but it sounds so fun! We just never had anything like that when I was growing up.

[@anniebananie5666]

"in the next four years i will be YOU" JESUSS 😭

[@sassygrilledcheese]

JULIE REALLY THOUGHT SHE WAS SAYIN SOMETHIN.

[@HeartEllis]

Jesus is our Savior,not a cuss word

[@anniebananie5666]

@@HeartEllis so sorry glorious peak king heartellis

[@Loveisfun123]

I remember seeing this movie in theaters , I thought the love interest was hot, but I was SUPER young. All I remember was that and the girls behind us would not shut the hell up.

[@Aster_Risk]

I was 13 in 2004 and LOVED this movie. I still enjoy it because of bostalgia, but you aren't wrong at all about everything you said. I was chubby in middle school, so the stuff with Yancy's character is so shitty looking back. I just totally internalized that stuff and weirdly wasn't upset about it. The early to mid-2000's was so openly toxic about body standards.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

I’m sorry you had to go through watching this kind of representation when you were younger. I agree, the dynamic in the 00’s was brutal for anyone who wasn’t a size 0.

[@Aster_Risk]

​@@sassygrilledcheeseAww! Thank you. That's really sweet. I'm legitimately just happy that I can look back on this stuff and see that it's no longer the norm for young kids.

[@arino274]

Lol I’m so surprised you didn’t mention that Liz was played by Bri Larson. It’s so funny to see her in this of all things, especially after watching Lessons in Chemistry (which is a nice, lovely little show)

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Sooo is it bad that I didn’t know it was Brie Larson until I uploaded the vid? 😳😳😳

[@wildhopeXx]

@@sassygrilledcheese she gagged you

[@MissLovebat]

Evan Peters’ voice in this movie is fucking sending me. Why did he talk like that? 🤣

[@sassygrilledcheese]

I DONT KNOW

[@chlorin333]

watched this movie when i was like 14 because it looked fun and i heard evan peters was in it. i thought the girls were graduating high school somehow, i can’t figure out why, but this is so much creepier in retrospect.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

So creepy!!

[@gillian9637]

i watched this at like 9-10 and I had completely forgotten these poor girls were THIRTEEN

[@BexTheBoo388]

Evan Peters from AHS and Josh from Being Human 💀 what a mashup

[@xPershionx]

Crazy to me how movies like this get made, yet people will freak out saying talking about being gay or trans as a kid is sexualizing them...

[@sassygrilledcheese]

the amount of times I would play with a girl when I was little and adults would be like "Oh! Is that your girlfriend?" Like??????????????????????????????

[@xPershionx]

@@sassygrilledcheese Or babies with "lady killer" on it. Oh no, we wouldn't dare sexualize or indoctrinate kids into a straight lifestyle. 🙄

[@timelesstalesbeauty5394]

Neither things are good for young kids to consume. So.

[@maddison9334]

@@timelesstalesbeauty5394kids need to know that queer people exist, it’s just life. It’s not sexual, just a part of life.

[@AssassinKillua15]

When they talk about movies that have aged poorly..Sleepover is that type of movie. They could've gotten so many actual 16yr or 15yr old guys to do that role. It's not like it was some high stakes role that audiences would remember forever. It wasn't that serious of a role. Just get another teenager. Alexa, Kallie, Sara, and Brie were all between 14 and 15yrs old. Funny how the girls had to fit into the right age bracket but for the guy it didn't matter.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Are you talking about Blank Check?

[@craftwithkori4840]

Evan Peters was also in Phil of the Future. That's where I saw him first and then immediately in Sleepover lol

[@sassygrilledcheese]

THAT WAS EVAN PETERS WHAT

[@craftwithkori4840]

@@sassygrilledcheese right?? When I saw him on American horror Story for the first time I was like "where do I know this face from" and googled it, MIND BLOWN.

[@thedrewdog]

I remember seeing this movie on TV while flipping channels, and I was mystified as to how insane and wrong it was. Especially when they focus on the "fat" girl who isn't even fat, it plays like a parody of teen films yet it takes itself WAY too seriously. It's like a female reboot of Revenge of the Nerds, which also aged horribly and is incredibly creepy.

[@platypusnoiz93]

I'd never thought that the stagehand was an adult. I've always taken it that he was 16/17 and that was just his summer job.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

I've realized that this topic is debatable on the internet but why wasn't he at the dance? Why is he working at a 21 and up club? Why wasn't it mentioned that he was going to school AND he looks like he's in his 20's. Not only that, it just kind of normalizes 13 year olds getting hit on by strangers who are much older than them!

[@d0kid0kid3vil]

Please watch The Clique next, its awful!

[@Alliappalachian]

Oh my gosh I forgot about that movie!!

[@trishinthecity5584]

Same it was just an awful movie I don't even like it

[@parisewellington3664]

I love that movie its peak trashy teen girl nonsense 🤣🤣

[@kenzij]

This is one of my comfort movies. It's meant to be watched with your brain off.

[@LupitaLaChona]

I loved this movie growing up. And even now I’ll watch it out of nostalgia. But they did our girl Yancy so bad. Until you said it, I did not realize that that guy was an adult. I thought he was their age.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

JUSTICE FOR YANCY

[@LupitaLaChona]

@@sassygrilledcheese this video came up in my algorithm. It’s the first time I see one of your videos I’ll be binging all your videos, thank you.

[@manders8698]

I think he looks youngish so I thought maybe he was a high schooler working a weekend job?

[@Hazeljv3]

I feel like every director and writer who has put weird age-gap relationships between teen girls and older guys in their movies/shows needs to be put on a fucking watchlist, because WHY AND HOW was this basically a trope in 2000s/2010s teen media?? There's absolutely no non-predatory explanation. Someone call Chris Hansen fr 💀

[@sassygrilledcheese]

The writer is a woman named Elisa Bell and she also wrote vegas vacation ??????? So weird

[@felixgrayrussell]

how did all of these grown men play characters that are attracted to literal children i would throw up in every scene

[@sassygrilledcheese]

I have no idea and again I really REALLY thought I was going into a regular cringe movie and I was just so shocked. I almost turned it off when Yancy was being hit on by the adult and it took me 3 months to finally make a video about it.

[@felixgrayrussell]

@@sassygrilledcheese god poor fucking yancy, as someone who was a chubby little girl i would have been fucking devastated if i was cast in this movie. i hope the actress is doing well now, i feel for her so hard

[@sassygrilledcheese]

@@felixgrayrussell I found the actress on IG and she looks beautiful and happy. I wish her so much love and happiness.

[@augustalavenderblue7353]

I made a comment on KZbin or Instagram or something once about how weird it is that the narrative punishes Brie Larson for NOT hooking up with the older guy taking advantage of her, but not the guy himself (like the social consequence she experiences is from lying, and then it's just never resolved! She's just less popular because of her lie) instead of redeeming her realizing the guy is a creep and having him life get punch dumped on him or something. Like, it's a kids movie, it's not like you need morally gray social commentary. Everybody said I didn't know what I was talking about for some reason

[@sassygrilledcheese]

I think you're talking about staci (Aquamarine girl) right? Yea, there's really no character arc. They just end up sitting by the dumpsters. Would have been better to see them all become friends in the end like we saw in "Mean Girls".

[@Jennithebaker]

I was out of the age range for this movie. I graduated high school in 2004 and was just a few months away from watching Napoleon Dynamite in my dorm, thinking it was the pinnacle of high brow humor.😂😂 God bless my sweet sunmer child self

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Napoleon Dynamite was and is a cinematic masterpiece UGH I LOVE IT.

[@Jennithebaker]

@@sassygrilledcheese I recently saw it again and was actually surprised that it held up🤣

[@sassygrilledcheese]

@Jennithebaker same! I watched it a few months ago and I couldn't stop laughing. Every line is quotable.

[@strawberrylime33]

I never understood the whole "stacy is going to Liz's sleepover" and "Julie's mom will only let her invite 3 girls." Huh??? So, unless there's 3 guests, Julie's mom won't let her have the sleepover? And why was stacy even invited at all?

[@sassygrilledcheese]

There were way too many obscure plot elements like this…

[@emilypost7893]

They used to be best friends! Lol. I mean the movie is definitely depicting a transitional time where friends drift and some people try to grow up faster than others. She was probably doing a last ditch effort to hang on to an old friendship, especially since her bestie was moving

[@Dylan-lb5ys]

it’s so funny that steve carell went to the house for a noise complaint so the dad could obviously hear them but then all of a sudden they go silent for like hours except for the one time he goes to check on them

[@sassygrilledcheese]

all the men were just really stupid lmaooooooo

[@inamorato6663]

in all honesty when me and my girlfriend watched the movie i found myself liking how dorky spongebob and his gang were (except the obvious creepy bits) and i just kept on saying that they possessed t boy swag

[@sassygrilledcheese]

eh its debatable. I figured he was 17 going into his senior year and even as a teen I thought seniors dating 14 year old's was weird. But definitely a lot less crazy than Yancy's situation.

[@inamorato6663]

@@sassygrilledcheese definitely, the premise seems alright on paper, the ages just need to be fixed and it might make the entire thing more tolerable (ignoring the fat jokes and seemingly need to conform to social roles and shi)

[@Annekalh]

I think I named no less than 30 Sims 'Yancy' because I loved her character so much, hindsight I see how poorly she was treated in the movie

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Justice for Yancy!!!!!

[@RioThorogood]

And the fact that Mom gave Julie a lock for her door! No punishment but a reward!? Like make it make sense

[@XDinoStephX]

This breaks my heart because this was my fav childhood movie 😅

[@sassygrilledcheese]

I'M SORRY. But at least we can laugh at it today and discuss how problematic it was in the comments.

[@hosly101]

12:47 the “oh my god” at Adult Man’s brownie answer sent me into the stratosphere💀💀

[@HannahandCailinLoesch]

New subscribers here! Thank you for covering these topics. We can all only hope that the media landscape will continue to shift so that predatory situations and relationships are not normalized and movies like this are never made!

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Thank you for watching! I’ll be checking out your content later 😊

[@michewi]

Oh no. I've never seen this movie before but how did this ruin Evan Peters when American Horror Story couldn't? The amount of celebs in this is insane. What the hell bro, why?

[@sassygrilledcheese]

I LOVE Evan Peters as an actor so I was so surprised to see him hahahaha

[@kimberleywilliams7802]

This movie is straight up pre-fame for like the majority of the cast except for Alexa Vega who was high off of spy Kids success.

[@prodsonicreations]

that was probably one of the coolest channel intos ive ever seen

[@sassygrilledcheese]

THANK YOU!!! that is the realm I live in called sassy land

[@nalalalalala9946]

@@sassygrilledcheeseI wish I lived in sassy land

[@deltatriples]

The pan to the cat at 21:50 killed me!!!

[@sassygrilledcheese]

hahahahaha

[@imannoyedareyou2746]

Now looking back at this with older eyes it’s crazy how this used to be my younger self FAVOURITE movie !!!

[@sassygrilledcheese]

I actually loved it too when I was younger and did not remember any of it!

[@reanndacli3421]

This was like one of my favourite movies as a tween, I had no idea it was so icky

[@ToffToff04]

That thumbnail 😍😍😍

[@relwalker6193]

“Look at this yahoo” 💀💀 You are fucking hilarious off rip

[@t3hpenguinofd00m]

I love your sense of humor. You're so sassy and so grilled and so cheese ❤

[@sassygrilledcheese]

hahahahaha THANK YOU

[@honey_bearperls6927]

what?

[@t3hpenguinofd00m]

@@honey_bearperls6927 look at his channel name

[@t3hpenguinofd00m]

@@honey_bearperls6927 look at his channel name

[@t3hpenguinofd00m]

@@honey_bearperls6927 his channel name is "sassygrilledcheese"

[@chuuchuuutrain]

she was so mean to ticket girl and for what…

[@sassygrilledcheese]

FOR NOTHING.

[@amikka420]

I'm so glad I found your channel!! begging you to do thirteenth year next 😭🙏

[@sassygrilledcheese]

OH NO I don't know if I could handle that lmao

[@keegan5545]

I have a feeling yanci’s boy is supposed to be like 15 but the actor looks older or is played by an older person. Because when I was in middle school, I’ve had people who were 13 who looked older than that guy. So I don’t know it’s all up to the perceivers. Whatever it’s called. It’s all up to your minds eye or some shit. Im also subbing now i love ur intro!!!

[@chickenapplepie3141]

Oh my god I feel so old I haven't thought about this movie in so long. I remember making my mom get it from Blockbuster solely for Alexa Vega and my mom HATING it. Mom was right. Visceral disgust and embarrassment seeing the whole plot again. Also love that you record your first reactions. Love the shirt. Literally so excited to see you have videos on the Amanda Bynes movies cause seeing this again gave me INSTANT flashbacks to those.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Thank you!! I’m glad you’re enjoying my videos and YES we need an amanda bynes renaissance

[@ItsGoingDao]

I forgot about this movie!! I absolutely loved it and agree with every assessment you made 😂 now I have to watch your take on the Lizzie McGuire movie 🥴

[@erinlefevers7302]

OmG I just realized ticket girl is Summer Glau from Firefly 😅 I love your reviews!

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Thank you!!

[@chrisbacon1275]

Finally, someone talking about this! This movie always gave me a yucky feeling. In fact, most of these movies gave me a bad feeling even when I was the target age for them. Im glad we've come past that now

[@Sproutgoodnight1161]

Okay but your intro has so many iconic references it should be illegal.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

I mean i think it is becuz I didn't ask permission but I wanted it to be very camp and it references my previous videos.

[@Sproutgoodnight1161]

Lol I didn't mean literally illegal my dude! I was joking!

[@maeganmonster]

This movie released on my birthday which made me really excited every time I saw a commercial for it on cartoon network, but I never ever actually watched it. The lunch table part is really dumb cause in reality, lunch tables are a first come first serve seating kind of thing.

[@vladb2154]

Omg yes everything you said is so spot on, this tween movie was an uncomfortable watch to say the least 😅 can't wait to check out more of your vids!

[@sunnybunnyfunny]

My first time seeing your channel & I have never heard of this movie but this is so gross😭😭😭why are these high schoolers and 20 yos hitting on little girls?😭😭😭💔💔💔 Being hit on by older men as a kid is probably one of the most terrifying things.

[@shepalderson]

omg ticket girl is Summer Glau. I was not expecting to see her lol.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

surprise surpriiiiiiiiise

[@ihatemickiegee]

love that this is the most relatable part for me but my mom at the time definitely had that white lamp (only bigger) with the crystal-beads hanging off the edges 8:12

[@sapphosgirlfriend]

new to your channel and i must say- that channel intro is fckin iconic i love it

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Thank you!!!!!!!

[@kerisaltchannel3817]

The only reason I know about this movie is that it keeps popping up in my recommended 💀

[@sassygrilledcheese]

im sorry LMAO

[@isaacreyes2954]

Wow. Great vid. Brilliant review and hilarious. Would have never known about this crap 😂

[@sassygrilledcheese]

thank you!!

[@kimberleywilliams7802]

I'm not even going to lie, I LOVED this movie when I first watched it at like 13. I can quote it near perfect with the way I rewatched it religiously for years, the nostalgia is super strong with this one and I genuinely didn't see the GLARING number if issues it had. Idk why I thought the speaker moving guy was also in high school (maybe cause he said he only did it during the summer for extra cash, I still honestly I dont think he's in college) and that all the girls were 15 but growing up and recently seeing different critiques of this movie (All of which are valid btw!) makes me look at it differently. I still love this movie, and will probably watch it again before summer or something but at least i'm more aware of what im consuming now. (I do wish they didn't just stick Yanci with a guy as if that would solve all her problems, especially an older one like here fat girl, here's a 👹MAN👹 to aolve all of your low self wsteem like what???? Is this euphoria or something like-)

[@goldeegee7156]

My girst video here with you and im hooked! Thansk for blessing us with this channel babies

[@sassygrilledcheese]

yayyyyy thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video :)

[@hannahlowe5886]

Love your channel. Your intro is what I will see when I enter heaven

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Thank you!!! that is the realm I live in called sassy land.

[@freakytostadacartoon]

The girls were 16 and both love interests 22, who let that happen? And Sarah Paxton was 16 and the boyfriend was 29 wtf at least evan was 17. I was shooked when I googled this.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

forreal!

[@zodiacromance]

#justiceforyancy

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Homegirl deserved better !!!!!!!

[@zodiacromance]

@@sassygrilledcheese can we agree that Hanna is the real villain 🦹/gaslighter/enabler? I need an open discussion about this character 😆

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Hannah is AWFUL. awful awful awful "would you rather eat celery or a brownie" ?!?!?!???????????

[@trishinthecity5584]

Exactly this is so wrong for many reasons!!

[@milodavis1]

When i clicked on this video i didn’t think I’ve seen this movie before until i saw Evan peters on that scooter then the memories came flooding back.

[@ChrisLeigh]

Me: How much more ruined do I want my childhood to be? Also me: *clicks on video*

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Hahahahhaa I’m sorry…. 💀💀

[@ChrisLeigh]

@@sassygrilledcheeseIt's all good. I brought this on myself with all the stuff I've been watching since Quiet On Set came out.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

@@ChrisLeigh oh no, I can't bring myself to watch it :(

[@habeashumor9814]

Did Dan Schneider make this movie? If so, that explains everything especially the shoe sniffing.

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Definitely a coincidence for sure but to my knowledge he was not involved in this production.

[@lovebeauty2669]

You are so funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣 had to subscribe

[@sassygrilledcheese]

yay thank you!

[@KyleOgilvie1]

Can we get Spice World or Josie and The Pussycats, two of my favourite movies of all time?

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Those are two good ones!

[@gubmaroo]

this is top notch commentary

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Thank you so much !

[@angiepangie2795]

I never thought ide see a cilla black surprise surprise meme in an Americans video 😂made me cackle - I completely blacked this movie out of my memory! I was probably 11 when this came out, what a great video you should have way more subs!

[@sassygrilledcheese]

The surprise surprise meme is my FAVORITE lol also thank you!!!

[@MePatra]

Subscribed lol ur so funny ❤

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Thank you!

[@Junemclovin]

This was my favourite movie as a kid😂😂😂😂 watched it at every single sleepover

[@sassygrilledcheese]

I get your theory but wouldn't he be at the dance? Wouldn't he also say something like "I go to a different school" or something? And he was working at a club! idk but thank you!!!!!!!!!

[@brijean.]

Commenting before my nostalgia is ruined😅 But I loved this movie, and it definitely had a big influence on my life, bc I went to SO MANY scavenger hunt parties & sleepovers for years after this… Most of them pretty lame, some kind of epic😂 (Epic for young teens in a boring-ass suburban town anyways)

[@sassygrilledcheese]

Scavenger hunts = very cool! catfishing men on the internet = very bad! lmao

[@brijean.]

I promise we never made dating profiles or tried to meet up with strangers 🤣

[@brijean.]

Love your videos btw!

[@sassygrilledcheese]

@@brijean. Thank you!

[@_gnarkill]

I still love this movie but mainly due to a nostalgic retrospect. I watched this with my friends at 13 and i was about to move away also. We watched aquamarine after! Lots of similar movies about young girls during this time had such old love interests, like sisterhood of the travelling pants

[@_gnarkill]

Not saying it's ok I'm actually so off putted everytime I watch one of these and see this youthful pretty girls young interest is some guy that's already experiencing the start of male pattern baldness lol

[@Jennithebaker]

At 16:47 I thought that flash of Chris henson was the dad from 7th Heaven😂

[@JR_Donofrio]

You just might have the best KZbin channel name ever

[@sassygrilledcheese]

thank you!!!!!!

[@happyhappyneko]

Yo the brother character is totally Mimi Siku from Jungle 2 Jungle!! I ❤ that movie soo much lol. Him and Tim Allen were such a funny pair. Yes, I am old! 😂 Also FBI open up!!!!

[@timelesstalesbeauty5394]

Lmaooo I can’t believe that 😂😂 I was so in love with him as a kid 😂😂😂

[@kylekyle1939]

Really nice intro🙂

[@sassygrilledcheese]

thanks!