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101 out of 139 people found the following review useful:
For what it is, a teen road movie, not as bad as many are claiming., 16 December 2002

Author: TxMike from Houston, Tx, USA, Earth

I read all the reviews and comments before seeing "Crossroads." Since I got it free from the public library, and "time" was my only investment, I'm not sorry at all. Roughly 50% of IMDb votes are "1" which is totally absurd. A more accurate rating is probably in the 4 to 6 range, compared to all similar films. "Center Stage", where the central characters are dancers training to make it big in ballet, is a similar film.

Other commentors say "Britney Spears can't sing." Those comments are equally absurd. While I'm not particularly a fan of hers, she indeed can sing, very well. As a singer she is as good as most of the rest of the young singers who cater to the teeniebopper audience. She certainly is a better singer than Madonna who achieved her fame on image alone.

Can Britney act? Compared to good young actresses, Britney is fairly amateurish. But she didn't have to stretch very far for the role of a proper, studious high school valedictorian who decided to look for her mother who abandoned her as a baby to be raised by her single father (Ackroyd). And, along the way write poetry which was then put to music by a young man who drove the three girls west to Los Angeles.

Most of the situations and dialog are silly, and there are many close-range shots of a pretty, smiling Britney. However I suspect they would appeal to the under-15 crowd of Britney fans. I enjoyed the film from the point of view that it gave me some glimpse of the real Britney, one that is not revealed in her concerts and music videos. I believe, as she grows up and out of her former image, she will develop a more mature singing and acting style and will continue her popularity for a long time. (Year 2005 update: I was wrong, she's become very strange! Year 2007 update: She has gotten even more strange! Year 2008 update: Even her little sister has become strange, and a new mother!!))

Critic Ebert gives an accurate review of the facts in the case, I will not repeat them here. While I probably would not recommend this film to anyone, I personally enjoyed watching it. Not a very good film, still it also is not a bad film. Just juvenile.

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115 out of 195 people found the following review useful:
NO!, 30 July 2003

Author: hales_r_us from Toronto

Please don't waste your time on this movie. The only people who may possibly like it are those people who think that Britney's music is brilliant. And even those people can't deny that Britney can't act. This movie lacked everything. When you read the plot, it looks as though it could have some meaning to it, maybe even a little more than some other teen movies. But it isn't so. And it's so silly, like Britney's character writing that poem that turns out to be the lyrics to that stupid, ' not a girl, not yet a woman', whatever it is. And then the guy writes music for it and she automatically starts singing along perfectly, she automatically knows the tune even though she hasn't heard it yet, and so forth. And don't even get me started on the karaoke contest scene, the cover of "I love rock 'n roll" is a travesty. This is another pitiful pop star attempt at being a movie star. Doesn't work at all.

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86 out of 143 people found the following review useful:
No no no no no no no no., 4 August 2003
Author: Kid A 2k5 (elliotld@hotmail.com) from Liverpool, England

You just know a film is going to be bad when the line, "We'll be friends forever" is spoken. Yep, this film has that line, quite near the start in fact. The funny thing is, the film has absolutely no redeeming features at all. Cliched and uninspiring plot, acting that needs to be reported to the trades description act, and Britney Spears. She can't sing, she can't act. What more could I expect from a film that's advertised as "The Britney Spears movie"? Not even Dan Akroyd can save this piece of tripe. The two worst things? First of all, Britney Spears is clearly not a virgin, so stop pretending that she is. Second of all, the film implies that she actually has talent by showing her writing a song. This film should be buried in the desert, and the site at which it was buried should subsequently be nuked. Simply put, it is the worst film ever made.

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34 out of 49 people found the following review useful:
Great horrible movie!, 29 January 2005

Author: Devotchka from Canada

I love Crossroads because it's so terrible. Definitely one of the best "worst movies" I've ever seen, it tells the story of how Britney Spears looks like a fashion model and acts like an angel while still managing to be the most unpopular girl at school. Sob, sob! Incredibly awful and idiotic drama coupled with sickeningly sweet romance make this one a not-to-be-missed...if you're the sort to love MST3K, that is. Sure, Britney can't act too well, but she can sing, and this movie is actually a LOT better than Glitter, Mariah Carey's similarly-themed vehicle. (And by "better", I mean "less boring and self-indulgent.") It's been two years since I saw Crossroads and I still remember it vividly. It's a cult classic--moronic, worthless, contrived, and hilariously awful.

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19 out of 22 people found the following review useful:
a fantastic study of a mind in breakdown, 20 June 2010

Author: gfhklondon from United Kingdom

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Britney Spears plays a young woman in a mental institution who thinks shes sane and free, Dan Akroyd the psychiatrist who must break down her mental barriers enter her imaginative world and kill the gatekeeper to set her free. The first 387 minutes of the movie are a spears monologue revealing yet again how talented this young woman is, she can sing, dance, play her own instruments, cut her own hair etc etc. For the full 387 m minutes i sat enraptured as spears skills took me on an emotional roller-coaster and expose the tortured possessed core of this character and lays her bare for the audience to pity. Enter Akroyd a dashing Psychiatrist/Time travelling billionaire, secret agent, Figter pilot chunk of hot man awesomeness. When introduced to spears (watch out for a Morgan freeman cameo in a duck suit) he realises she is possessed by a daemon and uses his teleporting time machine shoelace to enter her psyche and battle the daemon and its twisted minions (watch out for a Morgan Freeman cameo here in a duck suit). What follows is 4 hours of the finest combat sequences ever committed to celluloid culminating in a sword battle atop a banana sundae with a twist (the twist is the sword are also guns and allow Dan Akroy to see the future). A must see

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22 out of 28 people found the following review useful:
Oh, get over yourself and admit that this is a cute movie, 11 June 2002

Author: Kristine (kristinedrama14@msn.com) from Chicago, Illinois

Out of all the people, I admit that I bash Britney Spears all the time. But I saw this movie because my 2 best friends and my boyfriend wanted to see this. And we actually thought this was a cute movie. And it's funny, our friendship is like the one in this movie. There's the sexy one, there's the smart one, there's the one who wants to make it big, and of course my boyfriend. Of course it's not oscar worthy, or the movie of the year. But it's cute. Kind of cheesy, but fun. So what if you're not a Britney Spears fan, if you hate this movie just because someone you don't like is in it, you have to be a pretty shallow person. So stop acting like you know everything about movies. I'm not a pre-teen, but I liked it. So like I said, just admit that it was cute. Like people are going to contact you and praise you for making fun of this movie.

7/10

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70 out of 124 people found the following review useful:
"hey let's go watch another movie" "I'm right behind you this movies sucks", 31 May 2005

Author: demo_yeah from United States

Man when I was watching this movie at the theaters I was sure it was going to suck. Hardly anybody was inside watching the movie. And people warned us not to go in that movie room. The only reason why me and my friend watched it was because we had free tickets and, you guessed it, Britney Spears was in the movie. I tried so hard to like it but I hated it. The movie went on so slow in the beginning and their acting sucks and you can almost predict what's going to happen next. In about 45 minutes through the movie WE LEFT THE THEATERS AND WENT HOME. I was like, "This movie isn't going to get better is it?" and my friend said "Let's go watch another movie". We didn't even watch another movie, we just left feeling miserable.

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68 out of 121 people found the following review useful:
Not A Britney Hater, 20 November 2003

Author: Kilwins from NC

Ok, I have nothing against Britney Spears (except for the fact that she can't sing), so my trashing of this movie has nothing to do with the fact that Britney has the lead role. Although I will admit I only saw it to see how bad it was.

The movie is so predictable I knew what was going to happen within the first fifteen minutes. I'm so glad I watched it at a friend's house and I didn't pay anything for it. The movie is boring because you know what is going to happen before it does. The girls travel with a 'hot' guy, and Lucy, the virgin, really takes a liking to him. Gee... I wonder what is going to happen?

I will give the movie some credit, however. Not all the acting was bad, some of it was good. The characters had some kind of depth, and the movie attempts to hit mature issues like date rape. I would not recommend this movie to anyone, unless they were like me, and just wanted to be amused.

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78 out of 144 people found the following review useful:
It needs to be slapped - hard!, 27 March 2003

Author: isecore-2 from Umeå, Sweden

This movie is a prime example of BAD movies. I watched it during a sneak-preview, and boy am I happy that I didn't have to pay for it.

This is crap. It's so bad that I don't even know where to start. The only good thing about it is that it ends - and that if you rented it you can turn it off.

This movie is exactly like Britney's music: It's unoriginal, full of clichés and is a huge ego-trip from Britney. All the other actors are there only to enhance Britney.

Personally, I want to slap everyone involved in this project, and ask them "what were you thinking???"

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41 out of 73 people found the following review useful:
Atrocious, dreadful, appalling: Crossroads, 22 March 2003

Author: jolshan from Rochester, New York

No one can fully describe the agony of watching this film or the twitching that occurs when you realize that it could have been written by a four year old. Did anyone notice that every scene could have done without the one preceding it? Even terrible movies string together scenes most of the times. Bottom line: Crossroads goes beyond terrible and should be avoided over things like stubbing your toe, gouging your eyes, and plague.

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