Absent any sort of support from the screenplay, Murphy and Fanning are forced to engage in a cute-a-thon.
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08/15/03
Uptown Girls (2003)
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Reviews Counted:106
Fresh:14
Rotten:92
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: With two obnoxious lead characters and an uneven screenplay, Uptown Girls fails to charm.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: In Uptown Girls, Molly Gunn (Brittany Murphy) is the toast of the New York social scene. The freewheeling daughter of a late rock legend, Molly is an "it girl" on top of the A-list - designers... [More]
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Marley Shelton, Donald Faison
Director: Boaz Yakin
Reviews for Uptown Girls
If you own a statuette that declares, 'I wuv you THIS much,' you're the target audience for this sickeningly sweet girl-power pic.
08/15/03
Not an especially raucous comedy, but it is an unfunny, rhythmless one.
08/15/03
A creepy, depressing and leering 'comedy' that's a virtual collection of 'What were they thinking?' moments.
08/15/03
Like a linty old sour ball. It starts off a bit gritty and leaves a sickeningly sweet aftertaste.
08/15/03
About a young woman who goes to work for and eventually befriends the most obnoxious child ever to exist on this planet.
08/15/03
In the end, it's 'Moo' the pig, that comes off looking the best here.
08/15/03
Though Murphy is radiant, and her laughs are infectious, her free-spiritedness is thrust in our face like a pointy object in a 3-D movie.
08/15/03
When Uptown Girls isn't trying to play up its wacky high jinks ... it stoops to the kind of psychological character development films this shallow should really avoid like the plague.
08/15/03
This alleged comedy is so tedious that it feels twice its rather slight length.
08/15/03
Fanning's black rage caused by the very unfunny matters of parental neglect and the impending death of a loved one grates against the film's driving purpose as lightweight fare.
08/15/03
Director Boaz Yakin ... keeps shying from the darker material like a studio-trained racehorse, heading for the safer turf of slapstick and schmaltz.
08/15/03
Brittany Murphy...once again flashing come-hither lips, hair, legs and everything else when her dark eyes would do just fine.
08/15/03
It's all too, too cute and too, too forced for words.
08/15/03
Yakin and the great cinematographer Michael Ballhaus give the afternoon such a primal, heartbreaking sadness that you feel like you're watching Lillian Gish in a D.W. Griffith melodrama.
08/15/03
Haphazardly slapped together without an original bone in its anorexic frame.
08/15/03
So shiny and sweet, it’s too bad director Boaz Yakin couldn’t squeeze more originality into it.
08/15/03
It's really just a pastiche of scenes, most which aren't interesting.
08/15/03
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