"Sydney White" is the typical losers-become-winners where we cheer for the underdogs.Amanda Bynes is Sydney White, a freshman in college, who doesn't fit in with her Greek sorority. Determined to fight them she teams up with 7 'dorks' and launches a campaign to win back the school. Yes it is supposed to be a modern update of Snow White which I find lame, but it's easy to ignore that.It has all of the characters you expect to find, the cute tomboy, the pretty and popular mean girl, the cute and popular but also sweet guy, and the geek (7 of them in this case). The great thing about these characters is that the important ones, who are supposed to be more than just caricatures, actually are.And of course the highlight is Amanda Bynes, she is funny and sweet and pretty and very easy to like. Most people are familiar with Bynes so if you have liked her previous films ("What a Girl Wants" (2003) or "She's the Man" (2006)) then you should like her here. If you are not a fan of hers then I respect your opinion but think you're missing something, and you should probably also skip this."Sydney White" is everything that you want in a cute, sweet, feel good PG movie. I recommend it.

What happens when you take a few elements from Animal House (which worked somehow), Revenge of the Nerds, Mean Girls (which also worked somehow), and a classic fairy tale? You get Sydney White. I do not usually go for movies like this, what with being a middle-aged cantankerous old broad, but this movie sounded somewhat interesting, and I figured it was going to be okay, and thus a way to blow off almost 2 hours of a boring day, or was going to really be bad, and I'd just doze through it. And it was okay, until the very end when it turned into Revenge of the Nerds. Why "they" decided to steal that infamous scene, replacing I Am A Nerd, or I Am In Love with A Nerd, with, I Am A Dork, is beyond me. Up until then this movie was cute and entertaining and moved along nicely. This movie also has some very funny lines and scenes. And I really liked how they incorporated the classic fairy tale into the movie and made it work. And yea, there were some problems with the movie (is college life really like this? No), those are easily over looked (like the deal with who was or was not wearing a wig, which was more than 1 young lady). So check it out.

My 15 year old daughter asked me to watch this movie with her on Cable TV. As someone who saw Revenge of The Nerds in a movie theater, I found this movie to be an extremely predictable remake of it. The Nerds were simply replaced by Dorks. I drove her crazy by being able to predict precisely what would happen in each scene. The cast was cute, especially Amanda Bynes.Screenwriter Chad Creasey should be ashamed for writing such an obvious remake of an early 1980's flick. The title should have simply been "Revenge of The Dorks." Perhaps the sequel will be Revenge of the Dorks 2.

Honestly...at first I looked at the front cover and thought hey, this looks like a crappy chick flick being my sisters have already seen the movie twenty times, and the cover just looks corner.So right away the movie starts off slow, introducing who she is, what she does, her mom died when she was nine, yada yada. It picks up when she has to fill the kappa legacy, her getting kicked out and sent to Vortex to chill with her nerd friends, and the election.I soon realize with all the brilliant names like White Witchburn and Prince that this movie was all about a modern day Snow White. The dorks are the dwarfs, the virus is the poisonous apple, the "Hi Hoes", it really had a lot of cameos from its model film.The message this movie portrays is a positive one, and you will laugh a lot along the way...especially if you've experienced college, are doing so now, or on their way, it's fun for everyone."I've never had sex, but I really, really want to!"