NerdyJustin I first saw this movie in Sunday school. The entire class was so impressed. Seriously, it's such a horrible movie, we all fell in love with it and it became a super big joke. I later found this on DVD via Netflix and lost the copy I made. I shall own this again. legally or illegally. The story is a fine example of light Christian morals implied with the natural morals from right and wrong. The acting is just donkfunkulous and spiffy. These stupid kids go about the town calling themselves The Buttercream Gang and they are taken serious! Really? I wanna live in this town. It does appear that the town is influenced by the church though. Which is cool. It's not the over-bearing kind of God fearing fools. In this town, doing the right thing is certified gangsta. They keeps it real by looking out for their brethren. And I also have a feeling Pepsi sponsored parts of this movie.

pawleydeitra I saw the Buttercream gang when I was sixteen,my brothers and I popped it in our VHS Player and sat back to watch it.We ended up making snide comments the whole time.I'm a Christain and love good quality movies,but this thing was so cheesy and happy sappy I think I got a cavity from watching it.They try to overdramatise the serious parts. The Buttercream Gang is so perfectly good it makes you sick. The town is so small they preacher plays triple duty. Even the bad kid isn't that bad he shoplifts a couple of sodas (I think) the bullies aren't that scary,I mean what's so bad about riding your bike around the nerdy girl granted she'd get dizzy ,but still. The boys had a treehouse they're supposed to be 12 or 14 whatever way too old for a treehouse .I'm not sure I quite the moral of the story unless it was Don't move to big cities like Chicago or New York or you'll turn into a gang member and not the good kind either . The one good thing about the movie was the song that played toward the end and the credits other than it was horrible .

M P Oh God where to begin, You ever hear about one of those movies/books/shows/etc. that is so nice and cuddly that people cant stand it ? This is one of them. This is, w/o a doubt, one of the worst movies i have had the undignified honor of viewing, and boy, it was a piece of...well..s#!t doesn't even give you an idea. it starts with main characters, who are so repulsively nice (to the point where it will make you question the sanity of the person who directed this abomination) that they made a gang (4 people = a gang ?) that does nice things. And all with Christian undertones that are as subtle as a blue whale being dropped on your house. One of the 4 leaves and goes to Chicago, becomes bad, comes back, wrong crowd stuff...wait...i get it this is supposed to convey a point, and NOT make the people watching it vomit. Look, I'll put it bluntly, its like an after school special that tells you what 45 % of the other ones do, be nice, hang out with the right crowd, blah blah blah, its not different, its not "cool", its not nice and happy but serious, its like the town they live in is perfect, thats it. Only 3 or 4 real "trouble-makers" (probably just egged a house, or stayed up past curfew) it has no meaning, and when i saw it, i was part of its target group, that was 2.5 years ago, thats how bad the suckiness of this movie stuck in my head. If your a die-hard Christian, even this is to much for you and your kids will be traumatized by the sickeningly overjoyed atmosphere of this tiny town which also evidently doesn't have any sort of Police Department, just the gang itself.1 out of 10 AVOID AT ALL COSTS, DO NOT LET ANYONE TALK YOU INTO SEEING THIS IT'S JUST TO BAD, TO UNLIKELY, AND MOST OF WHATS THERE WANTS TO BE LIKE REAL LIFE, BUT ISN'T

Goddess-BrieDanielle I am 26 and saw this movie for the first time about 10-12 years ago. I absolutely loved it. I completely agree that it is totally sappy sweet, but if you like sappy sweet heartwarming stories, this is a good movie! :) It's also a great movie for younger kids (8- 12?) who aren't quite jaded yet and may still enjoy the movie without thinking it is stupid. I think that is a good age to deliver this movie's message anyway. If you try to force your teenagers to watch this movie, they will likely just make fun of it.Sidenote - There is also a really pretty song in it (I believe it plays when the two boys are having a "memories" day, but I'm not sure. It's been a long time since I've watched it).