In a college comedy that puts a modern-day twist on an age-old story, Sydney White tells the tale of a tomboy freshman who ditches her conniving sorority sisters and finds a new home with a group of very dorky outcasts. Fed up with the way they've all been treated, she's off to war against the reigning campus royalty. Sydney White (Amanda Bynes) has come to Southern Atlantic University to pledge her late mom's once-dignified sorority. But while surviving the pledging process wrought by evil campus witch Rachel (Sara Paxton), Syd finds out this version of sisterhood isn't remotely what it's cracked up to be. Banished to a condemned house on Greek Row, Syd finds her rightful place with a band of seven very socially challenged guys. With the help of one lovestruck frat boy named Tyler (Matt Long), she and the doofs campaign to take over student government. Fighting for the rights of misfits big and small, Syd organizes her gang to revolutionize the system, once and for all.
This is your textbook teeny bopper type movie. Amanda Bynes continues to take the kind of roles that I bet Lyndsay Lohan never moved on from and does them much better than Lohan or any of the other teeny bopper actresses. She has great facial humor and some pretty good comedic delivery. I'm quite appreciative for this since it makes seeing movies like that with my stepdaughter much more digestible. Honestly - the only opinion that matters is the Stinka's and she seemed to really like it. That alone makes it worth the trip to theaters.
I would recommend anyone with daughters checking this one out. It is based in a college and contains some partying like scenes that some adults may not be a big fan of but other than that it was a pretty decent view that the little ones would like.
