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SUGAR & SPICE

What You Need To Know:

SUGAR & SPICE is a satirical, dark comedy following the lives of five varsity cheerleaders. When the head cheerleader becomes pregnant, the team has to find a way to make some quick cash to help her and her struggling new family. Apparently, robbing a bank appears to be the answer to all of their financial problems. The other girls quickly find uses for the money they want to steal, and so they begin the necessary steps to learn the ropes of robbing a bank. The ending to SUGAR & SPICE is typical for a teen movie, with no positive moral lessons attached.

This movie is clever and funny, despite the frequent crude language and tiring idiotic antics of the girls. It lacks a moral storyline, however, and makes fun of Christians by portraying them as closed off from the rest of society and naive. In addition, the pregnant cheerleader excuses her pregnancy and portrays it as an accident that she could not have helped. SUGAR & SPICE is a movie that will tell teenage girls that crime is an acceptable solution to a problem and that becoming pregnant before marriage is not wrong.

Content:

(PaPa, B, C, Ho, LLL, V, S, A, M) Pagan worldview with immoral elements about stealing & dishonesty with one character portrayed as Christian with some morals & references to church, plus one male character is a homosexual & makes a comment about a football player; 30 strong obscenities, 15 mild obscenities & 20 profanities; some minor violence including man getting kicked in face, guy gets hit in face with football, woman slaps man, girls hit each other; implied fornication, suggestive cheerleading moves, one girl has breast implants, passionate kissing, & unmarried girl gets pregnant; no nudity but cleavage shown, girls in underwear & skimpy cheerleading outfits; one man drinks a beer; no smoking; and, miscellaneous immorality such as parents endorse bad behavior, stealing & lying.

More Detail:

SUGAR & SPICE is a satirical, dark comedy that follows the lives of five Lincoln High School varsity cheerleaders. When the head cheerleader becomes pregnant, the team has to find a way to make some quick cash. Apparently, robbing a bank appears to be the answer to all of their financial problems. This movie is clever and funny, despite the frequent crude language and tiring idiotic antics of the girls.

Most of SUGAR & SPICE is narrated by a cheerleader doomed by terrible balance and no rhythm to be always on the B-team for her entire high school career. Lisa (Marla Sokoloff) is out for revenge against the perfect and adored head squad.

The A Team at Lincoln High consists of five main characters. Diane (Marley Shelton) is the team captain; an all-American, blonde beauty with an annoyingly perfect and ever-prevailing positive attitude. The five girls, each with distinct and over-exaggerated personalities, fill the stereotypical prototype of the high school cheerleader. Kansas (Mena Suvari), the sarcastic tough one, provides some pessimistic and profane logic for the group. Hannah (Rachel Blanchard) is “the virgin” and an all-around good girl. She is oblivious to anything outside her bubble of Sunday school lessons and G-rated movies. Chloe is obsessed with Conan O’Brian the talk show host and really brings nothing to the group except her constant dreaming and fantasizing over the star. Finally, Lucy is the brains of the operation. With a college scholarship on the line, she is hesitant to take drastic measures of any sort.

These five girls are closer than sisters are. One thing that they seem to like to do quite often is hang around in their underwear. When Diane meets the gorgeous football star, Jack, they begin dating immediately, and the other girls realize they are perfect for each other. However, trouble starts when Diane becomes pregnant, and both families refuse to help the couple. They are forced to find a place to live and earn their own money in order to survive.

Diane excuses her pregnancy to the others as if it was not her fault and she had done nothing wrong. Jack and Diane’s situation is desperate, having only two months rent possible on the dump where they live. Kansas, Hannah, Chloe, and Lucy all decide to help Diane think of a way for them to make more money than Jack can earn working at the local video store.

While watching the crime drama POINT BREAK with Keanu Reeves one night, in their underwear of course, Diane gets the idea to rob the bank branch of the supermarket where she works. The girls set a course to learn the best way to go about their plan by watching every criminal movie they can find, keeping Jack in the dark about the whole thing.

Kansas goes to visit her mother in prison, and later takes the other girls along. Her mother and another convict tell the girls all the details of robbing a bank and are proud of the gang for their efforts, sadly. Next stop, guns. The idiotic five decide to take the convict’s advice and visit the Terminator for weapons. In order to afford the guns, the cheerleaders must allow the Terminator’s homely daughter, Fern, to be a part of the head cheerleading team. They do so, which angers Lisa, the wannabe, even more.

After finally covering all bases, the girls decide to go for it and rob the supermarket. Dressed in stripes and stars and wearing Betty doll masks, the job is started. The girls do the worst job of robbing anything in history, but somehow make off with the loot, although Lisa was in the supermarket and has evidence to prove that the cheerleaders are to blame. The ending to SUGAR & SPICE is typical for a teen movie, with no positive moral lessons attached.

SUGAR & SPICE lampoons Christians, who are made to seem naive. Hannah, the law fearing Christian, is corrupted in the story, along with the other hesitant girls, and a major crime is committed. Most viewers may leave with the feeling that the movie attempts to corrupt their morals as well.

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.