Forced to endure such casually offensive nonsense, the viewer ends up slumming it far more than the duff protagonists.
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06/13/07
Material Girls (2006)
4 %
Reviews Counted: 45 Fresh: 2 Rotten:43 Average Rating: 2.5/10
Consensus:
As a film, Material Girls fails to live up to even the limited corporeal goals of its title.
Rated: PG
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Theatrical Release: 02-03-2007
Synopsis: Ava (Haylie Duff) and Tanzie (Hilary Duff) Marchetta are rich, spoiled sisters. Their late father founded a cosmetics empire, allowing them to live a dream life complete with a Los Angeles mansion, hot car, endless new clothes, and their every desire fulfilled. Ava, the shallow older... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff, Anjelica Huston, Lukas Haas, Maria Conchita Alonso
Director: Martha Coolidge
Producer: Susan Duff, David Faigenblum, Eve Ladue, Guy Oseary
Screenwriter: John Quaintance, Jessica O'Toole, Amy Rardin
Composer: Jennie Muskett
Producer: Susan Duff, David Faigenblum, Eve Ladue, Guy Oseary
Screenwriter: John Quaintance, Jessica O'Toole, Amy Rardin
Composer: Jennie Muskett
Reviews
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03/10/07
The film's sole purpose is to promote, with chilling lack of irony, Hilary Duff's own brand of perfume -- oh, and there's her single as well.
03/03/07
Top Critic
Watchable enough and by no means as bad as The Perfect Man, although there's not much here that'll interest the over-12s.
03/01/07
Co-stars Anjelica Huston and Lukas Haas attempt to rise above it all, but you can almost feel them wincing at the confused tone and risible dialogue.
02/28/07
Top Critic
Messy, patronising and tonally confused, this vanity project – timed to co-incide with Hilary Duff’s perfume launch – quite frankly stinks.
02/27/07
Top Critic
“This thing is screwier than Courtney Love!” whimpers Hilary in her usual chihuahua-on-helium whine. Even she, however, manages to shine next to her aggravating older sister, saddled as she is with all the comic timing of a mortally wounded elephant.
02/27/07
Haylie and sister Hilary Duff just don't have the comedy stylings to sell this half-baked story of heiress sisters battling to save their dad's cosmetics empire from ruin.
02/27/07
Top Critic
Under the circumstances, Anjelica Huston and Lukas Haas manage not to embarrass themselves, but only because they're pretending to be in a different movie.
03/07/07
seems more of an ode to Paris and Nicky Hilton than a decent vehicle for these sisters
02/05/07
Frankly movies like Material Girls sicken me; they're base and soulless and entirely unworthy of the celluloid they were filmed upon.
12/10/06
A few funny lines spool out intermittently, but it's the inane-ness of Material Girls that grates. While Hollywood sisters Haylie and Hilary Duff tell each other money doesn't bring happiness, their actions speak otherwise
09/08/06
The villain (a greedy corporate man of some sort) isn't very fleshed out, but it's hard to believe that he's any worse than the two self-serving, appearance-obsessed protagonists, with whom the film asks young girls everywhere to identify.
09/02/06
[It] isn't some light send-up of materialism. It's a light endorsement of it.
08/26/06
Martha Coolidge's direction treats the whole adventure with more respect than it deserves, which also makes one wish that she'd been able to work with the Duffs on something much more worthwhile.
08/26/06
I barely buy them as sisters, let alone as whoever these characters are supposed to be.
08/24/06
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