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Avg. Critic Score: 33 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
11 OK for kids 11+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    At a time when crassness and dumbing down pervade popular entertainment, especially movies aimed at youthful audiences, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen dares to be smart. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Sheri Linden

    Girls ages 6-14 will get a charge from the fashion show, animation effects and, to a lesser degree, the cartoonish antics. But like most adolescent histrionics, the pic's impact on adults will be limited to mild amusement alternating with annoyance. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Dave Kehr

    Modest, mildly engaging film. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    This junior chick flick merely reinforces superficial clichés one associates with female teens: petty fights, intense highs and lows, and self-absorption. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    With no Jamie Lee Curtis as a volleying partner, though, Lohan's chipper energy is, like, so totally out of proportion given the colorless pliability of everyone around her. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | Dennis Harvey

    Minimally funny comedy feels like a Disney Channel pic that got boosted to theatrical after Lohan scored a hit opposite Jamie Lee Curtis in the "Freaky Friday" remake. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Even by Disney's formulaic standards -- is about as cut and dried as the phone book. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    It's a silly, giggly piece of pink-colored fluff, as hyperactive as its heroine and as redolent of bubble gum and Love's Baby Soft cologne as Lola apparently is. Yet the superficial sweetness masks something rotten. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe Stein

    The movie [Sugarman] made gives little indication that she understands teen girls, dramatic or plain. Much of Confessions seems clueless and -- even worse for moviegoers of any age -- listless. Read full review

  • 12
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    Every ounce of the film feels artificially upbeat. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says OK for kids 11+ Enjoyable movie about the trials of being a teen.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie has a couple of PG-level bad words. Of greater concern is that Lola lies, steals, and takes risks with very mild consequences, though she learns some lessons. She wears very skimpy clothes more revealing than even a free-spirited mother who throws pots for a living would permit. A character has an alcohol abuse problem. We see him drunk, and later he says he is getting treatment. In a very odd moment, Lola's big triumph comes when he returns her necklace to her in front of her friends, seen merely as proof that she told the truth when she said she had been at his party. No one questions why she was taking her necklace off at his apartment or whether she was doing anything risky or improper there.
  • Families can talk about Lola's comment that she lied to make herself seem more interesting. Why does Carla pretend that she got the part she really wanted? Are there girls like Carla in your school and how do people feel about them? Why was Ella so surprised that her parents would let her go to the concert? How does Lola feel about Stu after she meets him?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Lola lies, steals, and takes risks with very mild consequences, though she learns some lessons.
What to watch for
  • violence false0 Violence: Car crash.
  • sex false0 Sex: Very skimpy clothes for a 15-year-old.
  • language false0 Language: A couple of mild bad words.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Character abuses alcohol.
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