Competent if mechanical helming debut by editor Nick Moore.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2008

A project broad-based enough to make tween competitor Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging feel arthouse.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2008

The screenplay by Lucy Dahl (daughter of Roald) dwells unpleasantly on cruelty and humiliation, and finally Poppy does little more than exchange one form of snobbery for another.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2008

It's an unoriginal story but one with potential, and the actors who play Poppy's school chums are lively company.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 19, 2008

It may be manna for teen girls but any kind of critical eye will find it about as convincingly made as the last St Trinian's movie. It is played, though, with lively abandon.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2008

Alex Pettyfer is even more wooden than he was in Stormbreaker - for heaven's sake, he's not even that good-looking. And the story's utter tosh.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2008

On balance, gouging one's eyeballs with a chopstick would be more fun than watching this crummy tween comedy about a Californian princess.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 15, 2008

The types are such extremes that the partisans in the audience will continue to hate American brats and English snobs respectively, rapprochement between two sets of caricatures seeming unlikely.

| Aug 15, 2008

A tweenie comedy with an uplifting American-style sports movie awkwardly bolted on, it's a mess - far inferior to the recent Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.

| Aug 15, 2008

All amiable enough, but still a bit tame compared to, say, Clueless, or Lindsay Lohan's Freaky Friday remake.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2008

It's Mean Girls meets Malory Towers and as such it's strictly for a tween girl audience.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2008

This celebration of mid-Atlantic compromise is one for the youngest and most forgiving of teenage girls.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Aug 15, 2008

Clumsy direction means most jokes fall flatter than the paper-thin plot.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2008