On The Donnas Turn 21 the girls are now old enough to drink but a little too old for Barely Legal. The girls do their best to seem crazy -- screwing police officers, wearing hot pants, dissing critics that gave them bad reviews, huffing and binge-drinking, giving midnight blowjobs, covering Judas Priest, and giving props to Cheech, Chong, and Schlitz. Then, there's the sound itself, which is less Ramones than retooled Runaways. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

The third album by the Northern California female foursome has got only a couple of things, i.e., gettin' loaded and gettin' down, on its mind, but that's OK. Donnas A., C., F., and R. subscribed to the rock 'n' roll pleasure principle back when they were still jailbait, and, the "all-grown-up" premise of the title notwithstanding, that's what they're sticking with, one more once. The music remains slam-it-out Ramonesian punkola flavored with '80s thud-metal (the mighty Priest's "Living After Midnight" is covered), and it makes for effective seasoning to hot-to-trot numbers like "Are You Gonna Move It For Me," "Do You Wanna Hit It," and "40 Boys In 40 Nights." This couplet says it all: "I'll let you flip my flipper/If you let me unzip your zipper." Yowzah.

On The Donnas Turn 21 the girls are now old enough to drink but a little too old for {~Barely Legal}. The girls do their best to seem crazy -- screwing police officers, wearing hot pants, dissing critics that gave them bad reviews, huffing and binge-drinking, giving midnight blowjobs, covering Judas Priest, and giving props to Cheech, Chong, and Schlitz. Then, there's the sound itself, which is less Ramones than retooled Runaways. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide