10
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Few people other than future airline passengers should be subjected to such misery.
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What are critics saying?
75
Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach
A comic-book rock band starring in a film that actually makes a point? Now that's something worth singing about.
70
A surprisingly smart satire around the bubble-gum band that first found life in the pages of the Archie comic book series.
75
Mindless glitz-o-ramas don't get any snazzier.
10
Chicago Reader by Lisa Alspector
The insultingly trendy post-postmodern tale rationalizes its own product placement by using overkill.
40
Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
Cumming manages to keep the film's pandering in check with every wicked raised eyebrow.
50
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
It’s a big, frothy, high-tech, cutesy-poo musical comedy.
60
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Harmless girlie trifle. Or at least it means to be.
40
Fails as a movie, it works OK as a long-form video.
38
The concept is so hypocritical, it's like Britney Spears calling Christina Aguilera underdressed and overexposed.