Mar. 6, 2002 – Bimbos of the world, unite — and go see "Crossroads," to bring your youthful wiles up to date.
If reviews of Britney Spears' first major movie are anything to go by, she would be well advised to lie about her age and look into going back to being a Mouseketeer. Except, or course, that her voice has made her a pop superstar. Her blonde superstar looks don't hurt, either.
In "Crossroads," Spears and a couple of girlfriends renew their old friendship after high school and decide to head off from small-town Georgia on a road trip to California. According to most critics, it is an ill-fated adventure, especially for the audience.
The three hop into a ' 73 Buick convertible with driver Ben (Anson Mount) and take off for the wild west, where Lucy (Spears) hopes to find her not lost, but "indifferent," mother, Kit (Zoe Saldana) wants to locate her lost (and apparently also indifferent) fiancé. And Mimi (Taryn Manning), who's pregnant, wants to compete in a record company's open audition. Ben is described as Mimi's "mysterious friend."
Well, you really don't want to know what happens to the three misbegotten caballeras (pretend that would be female caballeros). Things turn out far mussier than we have time here to get into.
However, if you are an aspiring bimbo somewhere between the ages of 13 and 14, by seeing the movie you can probably pick up a passel of things no self-respecting bimbo should ever, ever do.
Directed by Tamra Davis, the hour-and-a-half-long movie is rated PG for sexual content and "brief teen drinking." Not sure if that refers to what they're drinking, what they're wearing or how quickly they age in the process.
It starts Thursday at Market Square East.