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Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyPhiladelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyThe cast is full of fresh-faced unknowns ready for their close-ups. Most likely to succeed is Kayla Jackson, an almond-eyed dreamer, as Brittany, anchor of the Ovations and of her family.
- 38Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOrlando SentinelRoger MooreOff the wall? Friend, you don’t know off the wall until you’ve seen five twelve-year-old girl singer-dancers cover the Tina Turner/Phil Spector epic “River Deep, Mountain High” in the screwball kiddie dance comedy, Standing Ovation.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleStanding Ovation is an innovative film in the sense that every minute or so it comes up with a different way of being annoying. Moreover, it often goes for a layered effect, in which it's annoying in two or three ways simultaneously.
- 20Boxoffice MagazinePete HammondBoxoffice MagazinePete HammondThis is the kind of movie where the audience of extras orgasmically react after every song as if they were at a Bruce Springsteen concert instead of watching a bunch of kids who wouldn't make the cut in a junior high production of "Bye Bye Birdie."
- 20VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonAt once annoyingly hyper and underwhelmingly dull.
- 12Boston GlobeBoston GlobeThis low-budget film from writer-director Stewart Raffill (“Across the Great Divide,’’ “Mac and Me’’) is processed cheese molded into a series of loosely related, sloppily choreographed, and inexplicably auto-tuned dance numbers.