Sleepover: The Predator Movie Obsessed With Age Gaps 

Casey: "and name her something stupid like Yancy" Me: sitting in shock as a Yanci 💀

I took the teachers reaction as a “I’m gonna be a registered sex offender” panic attack. That man was not okay.

As someone who grew up as a fat girl they definitely always made it seem as the older men were the only options for us because no one our age would think we were attractive.

Spongebob & co are the only boys the main characters' own age that we really see, and them being presented as so cartoonishly weird really reinforces this focus on older men being the only suitable options for young girls. Barf.

Steve was def the “where my hug at?” type of senior 💀

This movie passed through multiple writers

I was shocked because as a kid I thought they were in 12 grade, but they are a bunch of 13 year olds this is so gross and inappropriate.

I initially thought the teacher's laugh in the club was a laugh of terror that his career was over... but then he agreed to the photograph.

Why couldnt they hire actual teenagers to play teen boys?

What are my favorite things is how Julie‘s mom didn’t assume that it was just maybe a scarf that looked like hers, she knew instantly that it was HER scarf

All these movies “ hot girls that are mean and popular.” “ alleged misunderstood dork who is actually annoying and basic” Their side kicks Hot boy for the popular girl and dork to fight over

The worst part is Yancy literally SOUNDS LIKE A CHILD 😭

If they had just aged up the girls to 16/17 and toned down some of the bullsh*t, for example instead of going to a club they go to a frat party, and made the male actors actual teens this would not have been as bad by a long shot.

"i wanted to call the police several times" i'm laughing so hard already, i can't wait

Honestly, Steve liking Julie is the least problematic thing in this movie. He looks like an adult but his character is probably what? 16 at most? That’s only two years it’s FINE. The stagehand tho… that’s so bad wtf.

I always wondered why they introduced a random 30 year old to be Yancys love interest when Spongebob's gang was right there! Could have saved introducing a guy out of the blue and showed that the guy doesnt have to be "fat" to like her

It was 2004 and the summer before I became a Freshman in HS. I watched this movie with my friends because we would have a sleepover, that night. When I saw it, I wondered why there was a random Old Navy commercial in the middle, and why the boys looked like College sophomores, is that their teacher, what is going on? It was a bizarre movie and the only thing I liked about it was Evan Peters.

Captain Marvel, Steve Carrell, Evan Peters, Jane Lynch, girl from Spy Kids.. So many stars

I watched this movie growing up and I always thought the love interest looked 30

“Someone stole my bike” 😂😂 that delivery kills me every damn time

What's the problem with movie writers??? They are so sick to write a movie like this!! OMG!! 13/14 yr old girls dating grown ups?? Normalizing breaking into someone else's house?? Drinking?? There's not even one single thing that is okay with this movie. Movies' scripts need more control and filters, production should take more care of kids on set and of what they show and teach to their audience. It's disgusting and concerning.

The executives were like “we want to cash in on this genre real quick while it’s hot, so insert every tacky troupe possible and don’t stick the landing on anything. Also, work in the name Yancy somehow.

Ngl, the spice girl moment is actually funny. Also, I think the popular best friend is brie larson.

The messed up thing is not only this film, but the first two Cinderella Story films had 15 year olds in real life as the main female characters (Hilary, Alexa, & Selena were that age in each film) and their male love interests were over the age of 20 (C.S.1= 22, Sleepover= 22, and the worst one C.S.2= 26…11 years older than Selena). That’s so creepy. And ironically, in Another Cinderella Story (C.S.2), most the cast (who were also Canadian and had Jane Lynch in it as well ironically) were over the age of 20, many of them in their mid/late 20s playing high schoolers. Then the most funniest thing, Zac Efron didn’t sing in the first High School Musical, the guy in C.S.2, Drew Seeley actually sung his part in the first film and went on tour with the cast when they had concerts with the HSM cast. Insane!

The ticket girl scene is diabolical. "Let me in the dance so i wont end up being a loser like you" sheeeeshhh

Watched this at a girl scout movie sleepover event. The movie theater would stay open late at night from 11-6am. Think this was our 3rd movie of the night. I felt so cool, struggling to eat a giant jawbreaker I got from winning a movie quiz, surrounded by my fellow nerdy middleschool girls at 4am. 💕

Dying, because giving “brain” is another way to say giving head, so “great knees powerful brain” is just… the best accidentally jailable sentence in this entire movie.

"in the next four years i will be YOU" JESUSS 😭

I was 13 in 2004 and LOVED this movie. I still enjoy it because of bostalgia, but you aren't wrong at all about everything you said. I was chubby in middle school, so the stuff with Yancy's character is so shitty looking back. I just totally internalized that stuff and weirdly wasn't upset about it. The early to mid-2000's was so openly toxic about body standards.

I remember seeing this movie in theaters , I thought the love interest was hot, but I was SUPER young. All I remember was that and the girls behind us would not shut the hell up.

My childhood friend who showed me this movie ended up stealing her mom's car for a joyride in 7th grade and eventually got teen pregnant. (I don't think there's direct causation but I do think she was the type of person to see teens doing stuff they're way too young for as aspirational.)

Lol I’m so surprised you didn’t mention that Liz was played by Bri Larson. It’s so funny to see her in this of all things, especially after watching Lessons in Chemistry (which is a nice, lovely little show)

Evan Peters’ voice in this movie is fucking sending me. Why did he talk like that? 🤣

watched this movie when i was like 14 because it looked fun and i heard evan peters was in it. i thought the girls were graduating high school somehow, i can’t figure out why, but this is so much creepier in retrospect.

When they talk about movies that have aged poorly..Sleepover is that type of movie. They could've gotten so many actual 16yr or 15yr old guys to do that role. It's not like it was some high stakes role that audiences would remember forever. It wasn't that serious of a role. Just get another teenager. Alexa, Kallie, Sara, and Brie were all between 14 and 15yrs old. Funny how the girls had to fit into the right age bracket but for the guy it didn't matter.

i watched this at like 9-10 and I had completely forgotten these poor girls were THIRTEEN

Evan Peters from AHS and Josh from Being Human 💀 what a mashup

Crazy to me how movies like this get made, yet people will freak out saying talking about being gay or trans as a kid is sexualizing them...

Evan Peters was also in Phil of the Future. That's where I saw him first and then immediately in Sleepover lol

I'd never thought that the stagehand was an adult. I've always taken it that he was 16/17 and that was just his summer job.

I remember seeing this movie on TV while flipping channels, and I was mystified as to how insane and wrong it was. Especially when they focus on the "fat" girl who isn't even fat, it plays like a parody of teen films yet it takes itself WAY too seriously. It's like a female reboot of Revenge of the Nerds, which also aged horribly and is incredibly creepy.

This is one of my comfort movies. It's meant to be watched with your brain off.

Please watch The Clique next, its awful!

I feel like every director and writer who has put weird age-gap relationships between teen girls and older guys in their movies/shows needs to be put on a fucking watchlist, because WHY AND HOW was this basically a trope in 2000s/2010s teen media?? There's absolutely no non-predatory explanation. Someone call Chris Hansen fr 💀

I loved this movie growing up. And even now I’ll watch it out of nostalgia. But they did our girl Yancy so bad. Until you said it, I did not realize that that guy was an adult. I thought he was their age.

I made a comment on RU-vid or Instagram or something once about how weird it is that the narrative punishes Brie Larson for NOT hooking up with the older guy taking advantage of her, but not the guy himself (like the social consequence she experiences is from lying, and then it's just never resolved! She's just less popular because of her lie) instead of redeeming her realizing the guy is a creep and having him life get punch dumped on him or something. Like, it's a kids movie, it's not like you need morally gray social commentary. Everybody said I didn't know what I was talking about for some reason

I think I named no less than 30 Sims 'Yancy' because I loved her character so much, hindsight I see how poorly she was treated in the movie

how did all of these grown men play characters that are attracted to literal children i would throw up in every scene

I was out of the age range for this movie. I graduated high school in 2004 and was just a few months away from watching Napoleon Dynamite in my dorm, thinking it was the pinnacle of high brow humor.😂😂 God bless my sweet sunmer child self

I never understood the whole "stacy is going to Liz's sleepover" and "Julie's mom will only let her invite 3 girls." Huh??? So, unless there's 3 guests, Julie's mom won't let her have the sleepover? And why was stacy even invited at all?

in all honesty when me and my girlfriend watched the movie i found myself liking how dorky spongebob and his gang were (except the obvious creepy bits) and i just kept on saying that they possessed t boy swag

it’s so funny that steve carell went to the house for a noise complaint so the dad could obviously hear them but then all of a sudden they go silent for like hours except for the one time he goes to check on them

And the fact that Mom gave Julie a lock for her door! No punishment but a reward!? Like make it make sense

New subscribers here! Thank you for covering these topics. We can all only hope that the media landscape will continue to shift so that predatory situations and relationships are not normalized and movies like this are never made!

The pan to the cat at 21:50 killed me!!!

I'm so glad I found your channel!! begging you to do thirteenth year next 😭🙏

I love your sense of humor. You're so sassy and so grilled and so cheese ❤

that was probably one of the coolest channel intos ive ever seen

That thumbnail 😍😍😍

12:47 the “oh my god” at Adult Man’s brownie answer sent me into the stratosphere💀💀

This breaks my heart because this was my fav childhood movie 😅

I have a feeling yanci’s boy is supposed to be like 15 but the actor looks older or is played by an older person. Because when I was in middle school, I’ve had people who were 13 who looked older than that guy. So I don’t know it’s all up to the perceivers. Whatever it’s called. It’s all up to your minds eye or some shit. Im also subbing now i love ur intro!!!

Omg yes everything you said is so spot on, this tween movie was an uncomfortable watch to say the least 😅 can't wait to check out more of your vids!

Okay but your intro has so many iconic references it should be illegal.

This movie released on my birthday which made me really excited every time I saw a commercial for it on cartoon network, but I never ever actually watched it. The lunch table part is really dumb cause in reality, lunch tables are a first come first serve seating kind of thing.

Oh my god I feel so old I haven't thought about this movie in so long. I remember making my mom get it from Blockbuster solely for Alexa Vega and my mom HATING it. Mom was right. Visceral disgust and embarrassment seeing the whole plot again. Also love that you record your first reactions. Love the shirt. Literally so excited to see you have videos on the Amanda Bynes movies cause seeing this again gave me INSTANT flashbacks to those.

OmG I just realized ticket girl is Summer Glau from Firefly 😅 I love your reviews!

Oh no. I've never seen this movie before but how did this ruin Evan Peters when American Horror Story couldn't? The amount of celebs in this is insane. What the hell bro, why?

new to your channel and i must say- that channel intro is fckin iconic i love it

Finally, someone talking about this! This movie always gave me a yucky feeling. In fact, most of these movies gave me a bad feeling even when I was the target age for them. Im glad we've come past that now

she was so mean to ticket girl and for what…

This was like one of my favourite movies as a tween, I had no idea it was so icky

I forgot about this movie!! I absolutely loved it and agree with every assessment you made 😂 now I have to watch your take on the Lizzie McGuire movie 🥴

My first time seeing your channel & I have never heard of this movie but this is so gross😭😭😭why are these high schoolers and 20 yos hitting on little girls?😭😭😭💔💔💔 Being hit on by older men as a kid is probably one of the most terrifying things.

“Look at this yahoo” 💀💀 You are fucking hilarious off rip

Love your channel. Your intro is what I will see when I enter heaven

love that this is the most relatable part for me but my mom at the time definitely had that white lamp (only bigger) with the crystal-beads hanging off the edges 8:12

Wow. Great vid. Brilliant review and hilarious. Would have never known about this crap 😂

My girst video here with you and im hooked! Thansk for blessing us with this channel babies

I'm not even going to lie, I LOVED this movie when I first watched it at like 13. I can quote it near perfect with the way I rewatched it religiously for years, the nostalgia is super strong with this one and I genuinely didn't see the GLARING number if issues it had. Idk why I thought the speaker moving guy was also in high school (maybe cause he said he only did it during the summer for extra cash, I still honestly I dont think he's in college) and that all the girls were 15 but growing up and recently seeing different critiques of this movie (All of which are valid btw!) makes me look at it differently. I still love this movie, and will probably watch it again before summer or something but at least i'm more aware of what im consuming now. (I do wish they didn't just stick Yanci with a guy as if that would solve all her problems, especially an older one like here fat girl, here's a 👹MAN👹 to aolve all of your low self wsteem like what???? Is this euphoria or something like-)

Now looking back at this with older eyes it’s crazy how this used to be my younger self FAVOURITE movie !!!

Did Dan Schneider make this movie? If so, that explains everything especially the shoe sniffing.

omg ticket girl is Summer Glau. I was not expecting to see her lol.

#justiceforyancy

Can we get Spice World or Josie and The Pussycats, two of my favourite movies of all time?

When i clicked on this video i didn’t think I’ve seen this movie before until i saw Evan peters on that scooter then the memories came flooding back.

You are so funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣 had to subscribe

Me: How much more ruined do I want my childhood to be? Also me: *clicks on video*

I never thought ide see a cilla black surprise surprise meme in an Americans video 😂made me cackle - I completely blacked this movie out of my memory! I was probably 11 when this came out, what a great video you should have way more subs!

If you continue to completely eviscerate my chilshood faves ill have no chouce but to continue to tune in SUBSCRIBED! Also pls do that one Amanda Bynes movie where she gets trapped on an island with a rock star but rlly its the other side of the resort and she hides it from him. The guy from mean girls is in it and he plays her best friend who has a secret crush on her.

The only reason I know about this movie is that it keeps popping up in my recommended 💀

I still love this movie but mainly due to a nostalgic retrospect. I watched this with my friends at 13 and i was about to move away also. We watched aquamarine after! Lots of similar movies about young girls during this time had such old love interests, like sisterhood of the travelling pants

This movie is still iconic

The girls were 16 and both love interests 22, who let that happen? And Sarah Paxton was 16 and the boyfriend was 29 wtf at least evan was 17. I was shooked when I googled this.

this is top notch commentary

At 16:47 I thought that flash of Chris henson was the dad from 7th Heaven😂

okay i never understood that the speaker moving guy was older but now i do and i feel very different ...

23:19 "Will to live" 😭😭😭

Something that always confused me even as a kid about this movie is at the beginning when they're supposedly "out of school" and it's after school (so it's presumably around 3:30 in the afternoon?) yet when they walk past the high school, the high schoolers are all sitting down having lunch. Definitely an irrelevant point but it confused me even as a kid. Only explanation I could come up with was that maybe the middle school got out early on the last day of school and for some reason the high school didn't?

You just might have the best RU-vid channel name ever