A tough gang of teenage girls are looking for love and fighting for turf on the mean streets of the city! Bad girls to the core, these impossibly outrageous high school hoodlums go where they want ... and create mayhem wherever they go!
Just good enough to make it understandable why someone else might really like it. And it's just bad enough to make you wonder about such a person.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Sublime, exploitative camp.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
To watch Switchblade Sisters is to visit a never-never land of shopworn media images colliding in a tabloid high school of the mind.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
A terrific example of efficient, resourceful filmmaking, and its depiction of urban ills is, if anything, all too prophetic.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb 2001
rotten:
The acting is so bad that apparently none of the performers ever got another job in the movies, and the costumes in Ben Hur seem less dated that those on display here.