Peter Bradshaw 

Crossroads review – Britney Spears’ efficient, humourless road trip

The pert ex-Mouseketeer hits the open road with her two best girlfriends
  
  

Crossroads.
Crossroads. Photograph: Paramount/Sportsphoto/Allstar

An efficient, humourless vehicle for the pert ex-Mouseketeer Britney Spears, who demonstrates her shrewd gift for appealing to prepubescent female fans and postpubescent male pervs - the latter group handsomely catered for by an opening scene which happens to show Britney cavorting around her bedroom in her underwear, singing along to a pop song, the little minx. Later, she sings: "I realise I'm not a girl, not yet a woman/All I need is time, a moment that is mine, while I'm in between." Hark! Is that Gary Glitter I can hear being thrown out of the cinema? Britney goes on an emotional bonding road trip with her two best girlfriends and a cute guy for whom she - in the nicest possible way - puts out. True Love Waits, they say, For Someone Sufficiently Hunky.

 

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