- 7
...Prom seems a little innocuous, but this winning after-school trifle has a savvy heart that grows on you. The movie understands why the prom is less important than it seems ? and also why it still looms so large.
—Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly
- 7
...the squeaky-clean romp you'd expect from the Mouse House: no sex, no drugs and rock n' roll that's questionable at best. But that's OK!
—Peter Paras E!
- 6
...has a cheerful good nature and a solid cast of youngsters...
—Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter
- 6
... a wish-fulfillment fantasy through and through, sounds as if it was scripted by a tween, but it acknowledges the sincerity of its characters' desires without denying that the ritual of prom is by and large a frivolous one.
—Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine
- 6
Prom, directed with too bland a TV hand by Joe Nussbaum, evaporates as you watch it, but it does go down easy.
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
- 6
Like Glee, the monosyllabic TV phenom whose action it so dearly covets, Disney's Prom sells its target audience on the idea that we can all get along, despite the raging, Balkanized stereotypes...
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 5
For the target audience, Prom musters a few nice moments, perhaps, but nothing remotely approaching perfection -- and hardly any memorable ones.
—Brian Lowry Variety
- 5
The self-reinforcing system of Prom's universe is so perfectly worked out in advance that all the movie needs to do is fulfill its requirements. It deserves nothing more or less than a Perfect Attendance award.
—Nick Pinkerton Village Voice
- 5
Like Glee, the monosyllabic TV phenom whose action it so dearly covets, Disney's Prom sells its target audience on the idea that we can all get along, despite the raging, Balkanized stereotypes...
—Michael Phillips Los Angeles Times
- 5
...an ultra-predictable, star-free variation on the American Graffiti formula...
—Lou Lumenick New York Post
- 4
It's the sort of film Robert Altman might have made if he cut his teeth working for The Disney Channel. Actually, that makes it sound way too interesting.
—Scott Tobias Onion AV Club
- 4
Any episode of Glee or even reruns of Degrassi are more connected to real life than this Disney production.
—Claudia Puig USA Today
- 4
...another predictable offering from the Disney formula factory.
—Neil Genzlinger New York Times
- 3
...there really isn't anything that will pull viewers in, considering the movie is populated with mostly unknown amateurs who can barely muster believable personalities, let alone engaging charm. Or maybe the fault lies with the story itself, which is intended as a pastiche of parallel stories but is presented with such ineptitude it feels like a handful of unrelated after-school specials were hastily edited together with only mild attention to dramatic consistency and logical cinematic pacing.
—Jason McKiernan filmcritic.com
- 3
...a would-be tween-oriented hit so scrubbed and sanitized and not worthy of paying attention to that it can barely be said to exist at all.
—Andrew O'Hehir Salon