Reception
| "Like Roberto Rodriguez, who fashioned his The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D screenplay from his offspring's story, Draper has modeled her scenario on her sons' actual behavior and musical compositions, set within the cliched rise-and-fall structures of VH-1's 'Behind the Music' bios." |
| —Ronnie Scheib |
The film won the audience award for a family feature film at the 2005 Hamptons International Film Festival. It also received a nomination at the Young Artist Awards in 2008 for Best Television Movie or Special. When it premiered on the network, it was seen by an average of 2.7 million viewers. The song "Crazy Car" was downloaded more than 100,000 times on iTunes; it was placed on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for seven weeks and the track was featured on the Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice, Vol 3.
Ronnie Sheib of Variety wrote: "Convincingly faithful to kids' rhythms and speech patterns, and featuring several catchy if one-chorus numbers, this bouncy, feel-good kidpic, with targeted release strategy, could rock peers and parents alike." Felicia R. Lee from The New York Times called the film "an ebullient mock documentary". Tami Horiuchi of Amazon.com said that this "funny spoof of the Hollywood rockumentary genre is so over-done that some viewers might find it distasteful, offensive, and/or inappropriate for children" and recommended an age group between the ages of 9 and 13.
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