To suggest The Slumber Party is a tween remake of The Hangover would be completely accurate. The similarities were so strong that I had to look it up… and the book its based on (The Sleepover by Jen Malone) not only has cover art in the same style as The Hangover poster, but the author’s webpage says outright that its a tween remake.

All of which is weird… in a way I love. More teen movies should be undercover remakes of hard R comedies just so I can imagine a world where those tween readers can grow up and become traumatized when they watch the original.

Oh, where was I? The actual movie? Right. It’s a Disney+ movie that, yeah, I’m a few decades out of the target demo for so I shouldn’t bag on it too much. But I’ve seen good teen-oriented Disney+ movies that I enjoyed so it’s possible I could have enjoyed the flick.

Honestly, I only hit play because I was morbidly curious to see how Disney would pull off giving amnesia to a bunch of young teens the morning after a party. Hard alcohol? Roofies!??! Severe head trauma? But, no, it was due to an adult man hypnotizing them… which… which is…. ermmm… not much better?

But whatever… that’s the plot and the movie itself made me smile a few times and once I even smirked. There’s some decent jokes peppered in but mainly once they get to the next day and have to find their missing friend, I was pretty bored with them going through the motions.

Which, hey, nobody asked for my opinion on a tween flick. The target market doesn’t need my validation. I’ll give it a slightly better rating that I’d planned just because it occasionally elicited amusement… and for the audacity of turning a Hard R into a PG.

Score: 70