dir. Brandon Bergin
The poster for The Sneak Over, with its lurid red ’80s-style title design accompanied by smirking young boys on bikes, makes no secret of the fact that this is an attempt to rip off Stranger Things. So essentially, The Sneak Over posits: what if the kids in Stranger Things were in a movie club, instead of a Dungeons and Dragons club? And what if instead of defending their friends against threats from a magical alternate reality, their biggest goal was to watch a supposedly “mythical” rare film (although somehow, there’s a ton of merchandise for this film no one is certain even exists)? On that note, what if instead of creatures of darkness, the big baddies of the story were actually two local weedy bullies, who of course have darker complexions than our milk-skinned heroes? And what if approximately every thirty seconds, one of the boys either farted, made a fart joke, or listened to a recording of fart sounds? And what if all the acting, from everyone, was pantomime levels of crude and unconvincing? And what if one of the boys’ dads seemed to be on some sort of blind date with a teenage girl, for some baffling and disturbing reason? And what if the whole thing was so cheap, half of it was conveyed through shoddy black-and-white comic book storyboards instead of actual film? Well, if all of this were true, it’s safe to say Stranger Things would not be a mega hit. Perhaps in that alternate reality, The Sneak Over would be the mega hit in its place – but we’re in this reality, and here, The Sneak Over just sucks.
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