On the Line, which stars two of the five members of ‘NSync, Lance
Bass and Joey Fattone, is garnering a few favorable reviews that even
the group’s members may not have anticipated.
As if to head ’em off at
the pass, members of the group have been saying in recent interviews
that the film was intended for their fans and not for critics.
But a few
critics are writing some positive things about the movie.
Jay Carr in
the Boston Globe, for example, calls it “an adequate and likable
but blandly generic vehicle” for the two stars.
Jonathan Takiff in the
Philadelphia Daily News remarks that Bass and Fattone “come off
with an easy, natural charm.”
Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia
Inquirer calls it “peppy, painless and — happily — not altogether
brainless.”
But most reviews are of the vitriolic variety.
“More ‘It
stinks’ than ‘NSync,’ comments Lou Lumenick in the New York Post,
adding that Bass‘s acting “makes Freddie Prinze Jr. look like al
Pacino.”
Indeed, Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News
commented: “It’s a sad day at the cinema when you find yourself longing
for the relative charms of Freddie Prinze Jr.”
