Flipped

At times, the movie feels like a commercial for Wonder Bread, stretched to feature length.

Flipped is as phony as a poodle-skirted waitress at a mall diner, yet it's as sweet as a malt. A vanilla one.

Reiner, who made the similarly themed The Sure Thing about opposites who repel and attract, is a most sympathetic director of actors.

A remarkable family film that accomplishes something rare: It catches its young protagonists in the act of growing up, of beginning to learn who they are.

What starts off as a beautifully innocent tale of two teens navigating confusing feelings for one another, is stomped all over by painfully overdone grownup nonsense.

Small on outside, and big on the inside. [Full review in Spanish]

Madeline Carroll grows the most throughout the film and undoubtedly makes the most of her screen time.

Though told in a somewhat cutesy, sock-hop style, Flipped works well as a film about character that entertains the tween/teen set without preaching at them.

I expected more from Rob Reiner.