Material Girls Reviews
Lessons about social responsibility are submerged in a bubble bath of innocent glamour; Amy Heckerling's Clueless looks like a mordant social satire by comparison.
| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 4, 2014
Even Anjelica Huston as a rival cosmetics magnate struggles to inject any venom into the proceedings.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 4, 2014
Welcome to adulthood, Hillary and Haylie Duff. Here are your T-Mobile Sidekicks and Tabloid news stories. Leave your personalities at the door.
| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 4, 2014
A brain-numbing, fluffy flick for tweens.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2011
An insipid mess not worthy of the tweens who flock to such flicks.
| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jul 6, 2010
Fans of the Duffs finally have a film to look forward to while they're doing their nails and staring off into space.
| Apr 29, 2009
Along the way, self-discovery bangs 'em over the head.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 20, 2008
The Duff sisters are pleasant personalities, but the vapid bimbosity of their characters quickly becomes grating.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008
Forced to endure such casually offensive nonsense, the viewer ends up slumming it far more than the duff protagonists.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 13, 2007
A Duff movie indeed.
| Mar 10, 2007
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.
| Mar 7, 2007
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.
| Mar 3, 2007
Watchable enough and by no means as bad as The Perfect Man, although there's not much here that'll interest the over-12s.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 1, 2007
Messy, patronising and tonally confused, this vanity project - timed to co-incide with Hilary Duff's perfume launch - quite frankly stinks.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 27, 2007
"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.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 27, 2007
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.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 27, 2007
seems more of an ode to Paris and Nicky Hilton than a decent vehicle for these sisters
| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 5, 2007
Frankly movies like Material Girls sicken me; they're base and soulless and entirely unworthy of the celluloid they were filmed upon.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 10, 2006
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
| Sep 8, 2006
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.
| Original Score: 0/5 | Sep 2, 2006