Featuring an atrocious script, weak acting, lazy direction, and even worse editing, it fails to entertain and doesn't even qualify under the so-bad-it's-good category.
Bratz: The Movie (2007)
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Reviews Counted:71
Fresh:5
Rotten:66
Average Rating:2.9/10
Consensus: Full of mixed messages and dubious role-models, Bratz is too shallow even for its intended audience.
Theatrical Release:10-08-2007
Synopsis: Director Sean McNamara (RAISE YOUR VOICE) tackles teenage cliques, the power of friendship, and the importance of individuality with characters based on the Bratz dolls. Sasha (Logan Browning),... Director Sean McNamara (RAISE YOUR VOICE) tackles teenage cliques, the power of friendship, and the importance of individuality with characters based on the Bratz dolls. Sasha (Logan Browning), Jade (Janel Parrish), Yasmin (Nathalia Ramos), and Cloe (Skyler Shaye) are four free-spirited teens who are thick as thieves as they start their freshman year at Carry Nation High School. But soon, everything changes. Principal Dimly's (Jon Voight) daughter, Meredith Baxter Dimly (Chelsea Staub), rules the school with an iron fist, ensuring that all the students stay where they belong in their respective cliques. Although these four best friends try to buck the school's trend and remain close, their academic and extracurricular interests pull them in different directions until they realize that staying friends, being true to themselves, and following their dreams are more important than anything else. This candy-colored high school world is clearly the stuff of fun fantasy. Teenage fashion hasn't been this funky and fabulous since CLUELESS. And what would a movie about teenage girls be without cute, sensitive, teenage boys like Dylan (Ian Nelson), Cameron (Stephen Lunsford), and Dexter (Chet Hanks), not to mention a spectacular MTV-style Super Sweet Sixteen party and some show-stopping musical numbers? Amidst the fun and fluff, BRATZ manages to convey some important messages about self-esteem, diversity, and loyalty. Staub is deliciously evil as the narcissistic student body president who is determined to keep the Bratz in their place and maintain her empire. Veteran actor Jon Voight's dimwitted Dimly is wrapped around his daughter's finger. Lainie Kazan plays Yasmin's Bubbie, and Kadeem Hardison (Dwayne Wayne from A DIFFERENT WORLD) is Sasha's father. [More]
Starring: Nathalia Ramos, Janel Parrish, Logan Browning, Skyler Shaye
Starring: Nathalia Ramos, Janel Parrish, Logan Browning, Skyler Shaye, Chelsea Staub, Anneliese Van Der Pol, Malese Jow, Stephen Lunsford, Ian Nelson, Jon Voight
Director: Sean McNamara
Director: Sean McNamara
Screenwriter: Susan Estelle Jansen, David Eilenberg, Adam De La Pena
Producer: Avi Arad, Isaac Larian, Steven Paul
Composer: John Coda
Studio: Lions Gate Films
Reviews for Bratz: The Movie
Everything about the movie exists in a hermetically sealed vacuum of stupidity.
A silly movie that's essentially a series of clichés strung together into a semblance of a movie.
Just when you think the agony has subsided and the kids have to go home for supper, a freakin' music video breaks out.
A cut above the usual dramas aimed at teen female audiences, not least because it's about more than shopping and romance.
...if this isn't the most mind-numbingly idiotic movie made this century, it gives others something to shoot at.
"Awesomely" tacky live-action feature based on the popular fashion floozies.
The empty-headed song, 'Brattitude,' makes the ditties in High School Musical sound like Stephen Sondheim.
Shrill and shallow to putrid extremes... one of the most blatantly offensive movies ever to be aimed at young audiences.
Although the film at times seems more a showcase for the trendy clothes specifically tailored for each character’s unique personality, it does convey a positive message about loyalty and friendship.
Bratz is a disappointment because the characters come off less as the girly superheroes they should be, and more as, well, brats.
Others who watch with more sense than adoration will likely be dumbfounded by the venal messages of pettiness and possession that the movie honors above all else.
Always dressed and coiffed like perfect dolls, the Bratz reaffirm sisterhood by heading for the mall.
The proud owners of Bratz dolls almost surely have had more imaginative fantasies about them than anything onscreen.
Parents of tween daughters everywhere beware: the brain rot that infects this movie might be contagious.
[An] excruciatingly inane high-school comedy inspired by a line of sexually suggestive dolls aimed at 9-year-old girls.
The best that can be said about the big-screen Bratz is that they are not nearly as appalling as their toy-shelf twins.
Bratz teems with jaw-dropping stereotypes even as it tries to throw a meager bone or two to intellectual achievement.
At least they don't have the girls dolled up as the next freshman class at Lap Dancing Tech.
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