It's a fresh comedy, with smart conflict where the unexpected always happens. The cast was comic with great sense of humor to mock at the teen girls. The hidden satire gives it a little deepness that could make it live longer; you must rob to survive, the perfect role models aren't that perfect after all, and it even shows how the dirty money financed the politicians, or how the politicians themselves can be so dull; to have a gang's head as a wife, and know nothing about it!
However, the movie seems short, with unnecessary parts too. For instance, it delayed till the end of its first half to hit its point of attack; the idea of the heist, to have us for quite some time watching just the problem which led to that! Plus, what's the need for an extra girl, the daughter of the weapons' dealer, where she did nothing to the story or the comedy??, or what's the need for free nasty scenes like the big black worker woman at the prison who looks lustfully to the young girls??!! Actually, I suspect also how the 2 minutes of "Where are they now?" part was added just to lengthen the movie's running time which's originally a 73 minutes long only. Let alone how its third act, the robbery itself, wasn't as hot and ironic as it should've been.
Despite anything, it's a good little crime comedy that assured how the unfair society must be robbed, and how the teen polished girls can plan and achieve the perfect crime. It looks like some revenge on anyone who ever sees that girls are weak, or less intelligent than men. No wonder I suppose, since it came from 2 girls already: director Francine McDougall, and scriptwriter Lona Williams (Mandy Nelson is an alias that Williams used). Williams is the one who wrote (Drop Dead Gorgeous) 2 years earlier, where she illustrated how the girls got sugar and bad spice. Here, she clarified the existence of the good spice anyway. But it could've been better, lighter and stronger.
However, the movie seems short, with unnecessary parts too. For instance, it delayed till the end of its first half to hit its point of attack; the idea of the heist, to have us for quite some time watching just the problem which led to that! Plus, what's the need for an extra girl, the daughter of the weapons' dealer, where she did nothing to the story or the comedy??, or what's the need for free nasty scenes like the big black worker woman at the prison who looks lustfully to the young girls??!! Actually, I suspect also how the 2 minutes of "Where are they now?" part was added just to lengthen the movie's running time which's originally a 73 minutes long only. Let alone how its third act, the robbery itself, wasn't as hot and ironic as it should've been.
Despite anything, it's a good little crime comedy that assured how the unfair society must be robbed, and how the teen polished girls can plan and achieve the perfect crime. It looks like some revenge on anyone who ever sees that girls are weak, or less intelligent than men. No wonder I suppose, since it came from 2 girls already: director Francine McDougall, and scriptwriter Lona Williams (Mandy Nelson is an alias that Williams used). Williams is the one who wrote (Drop Dead Gorgeous) 2 years earlier, where she illustrated how the girls got sugar and bad spice. Here, she clarified the existence of the good spice anyway. But it could've been better, lighter and stronger.