Saucereyed and hedgehog-haired, Brittany Murphy thinks, wrongly, that she is adorably kooky as the party girl.

| Jan 10, 2018

A lame, predictable comedy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2010

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 16, 2004

Though I found Mr. Yakin's direction unexpectedly imaginative, and the script often incongruously subtle, I couldn't get into the spirit of all the whimsy, the reason being the surprising lack of charm in the two leads.

| Sep 26, 2003

Can two over-pampered but fundamentally lonely persons of the blonde female persuasion bond meaningfully with each other while shopping?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 21, 2003

Combine two mannered performances with a script intent on achieving maximum cuteness, and you've got one wince-inducing sugar rush.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 21, 2003

Gives chick flicks a bad name.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 21, 2003

Locates Fanning's 'maturity' in a fear of germs that comes off as borderline psychotic, and Murphy's childlike free spirit in her apparent inability to avoid walking into walls.

| Aug 19, 2003

... a disaster.

Full Review | Aug 18, 2003

A modern fairytale that loads up big-time on the girly trappings but doesn't give you much in the way of plot or characters or even plain old sense.

Full Review | Aug 17, 2003

None of it is handled with any emotional believability or grace.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 17, 2003

Everything has a blurry, much-edited quality, and the story lines don't mesh.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 15, 2003

There's more than a hint of desperation to Murphy's characterization.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 15, 2003

Not an especially raucous comedy, but it is an unfunny, rhythmless one.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2003

A creepy, depressing and leering 'comedy' that's a virtual collection of 'What were they thinking?' moments.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4 | Aug 15, 2003

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.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Aug 15, 2003

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 15, 2003

Director Boaz Yakin ... keeps shying from the darker material like a studio-trained racehorse, heading for the safer turf of slapstick and schmaltz.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 15, 2003

It's all too, too cute and too, too forced for words.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2003