None of the leads convince or engage, and supporting characters are either gay stereotypes, routine little sisters or functional best friends.
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06/24/06
The Perfect Man (2005)
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Reviews Counted:115
Fresh:6
Rotten:109
Average Rating:3.2/10
Consensus: Mechanical, preposterous and predictable, The Perfect Man is a lifeless, occasionally creepy movie that gives romantic comedies a bad name.
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Romance, Love Story, Parents, Teenage, Family Interaction
Synopsis: In The Perfect Man, teenager Holly Hamilton (Hilary Duff) is tired of moving every time her single mom Jean (Heather Locklear) has another personal meltdown involving yet another second-rate guy.... [More]
Starring: Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear, Chris Noth, Mike O'Malley
Director: Mark Rosman
Reviews for The Perfect Man
Top CriticThe occasional one-liner is wasted amid a sea of clichés and preposterous situations in this Duff vehicle that forgot to put the romance in romantic comedy.
04/01/06
Top CriticEverything bad about teen chick flicks is encapsulated in The Perfect Man.
08/23/05
Top CriticDisappointing romantic comedy that starts well but then takes a nosedive into cliché and sickly sweet sentimentality.
08/20/05
One of those harmless teen romantic comedies that girls adore and everyone else suffers through.
07/28/05
I can’t see anyone really enjoying this.
04/29/09
Hollywood cranks out another prosaic teen-girl-romantic-comedy from its bottomless cultural vacuum in this Hilary Duff vehicle that no non-female person over the age of 12 should suffer through.
04/16/09
It's funny, poignant and the characters are appealing.
10/18/08
The premise is patently ridiculous, but the target audience of 12-year-old girls will be too charmed by the genre requisites to care.
03/06/07
The sparkling charm which Duff once evinced has largely faded with familiarity and too many indifferent projects.
03/01/07
The Perfect Man, starring Hilary Duff, isn't very good. The problem is how to critique it without taking the obvious cheap shots at its likable but over-exposed young star.
09/27/06
Many scenes from the previews aren’t in the film -- a telltale sign of desperate last-minute tampering.
05/12/06
Keeping the ruse going involves gifts and notes of the "just missed you" variety.
01/17/06
Top CriticWith an emphasis on wacky misunderstandings and situations, the film has all the complexity of a sitcom (a thoroughly mediocre sitcom at that).
12/06/05
Excuse me, but who are these people?
11/04/05
Disinterest gets stretched past disbelief.
08/09/05
A completely awful movie, from start to finish.
07/07/05
A film so awful and devoid of anything that could even loosely be described as entertaining that it makes me hope that Duff will move away from acting and concentrate on her musical career.
07/06/05
In place of characters we can relate to, the movie delivers a witless, mechanical series of complications.
06/29/05
This silly, lame comedy is primarily a vehicle to promote Hilary Duff.
06/28/05
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