"Troop Beverly Hills" is based on the real experiences of its producer Ava Fries, but it doesn't pay the kind of detailed attention to the Beverly Hills girls Fries must have known to make the movie work.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 24, 2021

For about a half-hour, "Troop Beverly Hills" brings a lot of funny situations and funny lines. Then it's time to finish the popcorn and settle down for a nap.

| Jun 24, 2021

Screenwriters Pamela Norris and Margaret Grieco Oberman hail from the mid-1980s period of Saturday Night Live, if that gives an idea of what to expect in the way of a script.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 24, 2021

Long is an actress who can't throw away a line--though this is one case where she should have thrown away the whole script.

| Jun 24, 2021

Seemingly endless and punishingly unfunny...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 24, 2021

Perhaps the film's premise would have been effective for a 10-minute sketch on Saturday Night Live or The Tracey Ullman Show.

| Jun 24, 2021

"Troop Beverly Hills" is only fleetingly amusing, but Miss Long does make it fun for a while.

| May 20, 2003

Instead of being a merciless evisceration of the lifestyles of the rich, it's a little morality play in which Long transforms herself into a warm and useful person. Nobody within a mile of this project seems to have possessed an ounce of irony.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Dreadful as their performances are, the actors are the victims.

| Jan 1, 2000