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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.

Rated: PG [See Full Rating] for thematic elements.

Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Genre: Childrens

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

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Parents beware. Bratz will rot your child's mind, drain her soul and likely encourage early Botox dependency.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment 3 Comments
08/03/07
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News

If you let your daughter see this movie, set aside time to discuss the sea of mixed messages.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment 2 Comments
08/03/07
John Monaghan
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press

Frivolous, and ultimately forgettable? Of course. But if this movie is about high school tolerance, then superficial teenagers deserve our compassion, too.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment 7 Comments
08/03/07
Paige Wiser
Paige Wiser
Chicago Sun-Times
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This atrocious comedy doesn't have an idea in its head but still screams at the top of its lungs, taking pains to distinguish between its rich heroines and their even richer enemies (including Jon Voight).

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
08/03/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader

If you ever wanted a movie to put in the time capsule so future generations can puzzle over the bankruptcy of our current kiddie culture, Bratz is it.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
08/03/07
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe

Sean McNamara's cheesy Bratz: The Movie is ludicrous and almost perverse. Even more upsetting is the fact that no effort was made whatsoever in hiding ideas appropriated by teen films.

Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca | comment Comment
08/03/07
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca

You see, when these barely legal billboards walk down the street in short skirts and porn star makeup, they're just expressing their creativity and livin' life to the fullest. Holla!

Full Review Source: OhmyNews.com | comment Comment
08/03/07
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
OhmyNews.com

The derivative Bratz is a great big pink marshmallow of a movie, aimed at one demographic only: tween girls into fashion and lip gloss. Anyone else, enter at your own risk.

Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
08/03/07
Kit Bowen
Kit Bowen
Hollywood.com

It takes a certain amount of genius to stage a derisive spoof of MTV’s My Super Sweet 16 while enthusiastically aping the very materialism it promotes.

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08/03/07
Jeannette Catsoulis
Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
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Viewers who are not girls age 8 to 12 will likely spend most of the movie staring in disbelief.

Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
08/03/07
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews

The dialogue is stupid, the plot is stupid, and unfortunately, the stars are as brainless as their plastic counterparts. This is girl power?

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment 2 Comments
08/02/07
Dezhda Gaubert
Dezhda Gaubert
E! Online

Little more than a long-form music video that isn't that far removed from its direct-to-DVD animated predecessors.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
08/02/07
Mack Bates
Mack Bates
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Bad not for its message or values, but for simply being a flat-out awful abortive trainwreck of a disastrous pile of worthless stupid garbage of an utter mess of a movie, even by the low, low standards of Movies Based on Toys.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
08/02/07
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

And I thought I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry was hypocritical.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
08/02/07
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune

I suspect 8-year-old girls will like it just fine.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
08/02/07
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

This is why the terrorists hate us.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment 19 Comments
08/02/07
Nathan Rabin
Nathan Rabin
AV Club

There isn't a moment of truth or perception in its miserable 98 minutes; this film's view of high school is so skewed from reality and so insulting in its contempt that it's almost scary to think preteen girls would fall for it.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
08/02/07
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

For a formulaic comedy about shallow, shopping-obsessed teenagers, it's about twice as good as it has any right to be.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
08/02/07
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

There is a lot for both kids and their parents to like about this film. Its heroines deal with some real-life issues with dignity and resourcefulness. Its portrayal of the pull of cliques and conformity is sweet and smart.

Full Review Source: Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies | comment 28 Comments
08/02/07
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

M&M-colored high school fantasia for aspirational 10- and 12-year-old girls who'll be shocked (or, hopefully, delighted) when they get to ninth grade and find out life isn't so super-Bratz-fabulous.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment 6 Comments
08/02/07
Gregory Kirschling
Gregory Kirschling
Entertainment Weekly
 
 
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