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Bratz: The Movie

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Bratz: The Movie (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 70

Fresh: 5

Rotten:65

Average Rating: 2.9/10

Consensus: Full of mixed messages and dubious role-models, Bratz is too shallow even for its intended audience.

Rated: PG [See Full Rating] for thematic elements.

Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Genre: Childrens

Theatrical Release:Aug 3, 2007 Wide

Box Office: $9,882,053

Synopsis: Director Sean McNamara (RAISE YOUR VOICE) tackles teenage cliques, the power of friendship, and the importance of individuality with characters based on the Bratz dolls. Sasha (Logan Browning),... Director Sean McNamara (RAISE YOUR VOICE) tackles teenage cliques, the power of friendship, and the importance of individuality with characters based on the Bratz dolls. Sasha (Logan Browning), Jade (Janel Parrish), Yasmin (Nathalia Ramos), and Cloe (Skyler Shaye) are four free-spirited teens who are thick as thieves as they start their freshman year at Carry Nation High School. But soon, everything changes. Principal Dimly's (Jon Voight) daughter, Meredith Baxter Dimly (Chelsea Staub), rules the school with an iron fist, ensuring that all the students stay where they belong in their respective cliques. Although these four best friends try to buck the school's trend and remain close, their academic and extracurricular interests pull them in different directions until they realize that staying friends, being true to themselves, and following their dreams are more important than anything else. This candy-colored high school world is clearly the stuff of fun fantasy. Teenage fashion hasn't been this funky and fabulous since CLUELESS. And what would a movie about teenage girls be without cute, sensitive, teenage boys like Dylan (Ian Nelson), Cameron (Stephen Lunsford), and Dexter (Chet Hanks), not to mention a spectacular MTV-style Super Sweet Sixteen party and some show-stopping musical numbers? Amidst the fun and fluff, BRATZ manages to convey some important messages about self-esteem, diversity, and loyalty. Staub is deliciously evil as the narcissistic student body president who is determined to keep the Bratz in their place and maintain her empire. Veteran actor Jon Voight's dimwitted Dimly is wrapped around his daughter's finger. Lainie Kazan plays Yasmin's Bubbie, and Kadeem Hardison (Dwayne Wayne from A DIFFERENT WORLD) is Sasha's father. [More]

Starring: Nathalia Ramos, Janel Parrish, Logan Browning, Skyler Shaye

Starring: Nathalia Ramos, Janel Parrish, Logan Browning, Skyler Shaye, Chelsea Staub, Anneliese Van Der Pol, Malese Jow, Stephen Lunsford, Ian Nelson, Jon Voight

Director: Sean McNamara

Director: Sean McNamara
Screenwriter: Susan Estelle Jansen, David Eilenberg, Adam De La Pena
Producer: Avi Arad, Isaac Larian, Steven Paul
Composer: John Coda
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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Sadly, the fact that it's attached to a successful toyline means it barely matters whether it's good or not.

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05/20/08
Saxon Bullock
Channel 4 Film

Voight never loses touch with his prosthetic nose, perhaps hoping he won't be recognized.

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01/14/08
John Anderson
Newsday
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The flashy foursome seemingly insist from the outset that they're no Barbies. Or are they.

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11/22/07
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze

By right Bratz should have had no potential at all. Yet it is still disappointing to see the handful of clever ideas and heartfelt themes smothered by corporate, focus-group filmmaking.

Full Review Source: Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) | comment Comment
10/29/07
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

Lessons about friendship and tolerance in this live-action toy story are sidelined in favour of a desire to increase unit sales.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
09/15/07
Kat Brown
Empire Magazine

A cloying, tween-oriented confection that clearly doesn't think much of its target audience.

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08/31/07
David Schmeichel
Jam! Movies

Whoever thought that "Bratz" deserved the attention of this screenplay should be spanked.

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment Comment
08/29/07
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Bratz (freaky looking teen dolls for girls whose parents won't let them play with real teenagers) is now a high school movie made for people in Grade 6.

Full Review Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | comment Comment
08/29/07
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Bad even by the low standards of its genre.

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08/25/07
Philip French
Observer [UK]

The ultracommercialized result of taking a lucrative doll line and feeding it through the Disney Channel actress-singer hyphenate starlet machine.

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08/19/07
Michael Dequina
Mr. Brown's Movies

It's all rather flat and inept.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
08/18/07
Phelim O'Neill
Guardian [UK]

An utterly harmless time-passer, but one which has little appeal beyond its target audience.

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08/14/07
Caroline Westbrook
BBC

Apparently Jon Voight can do worse than "Baby Geniuses 2"

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08/10/07
Peter Sobczynski
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[The Bratz are] so air-headed they might have written the bubble-gum script themselves...

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08/10/07
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

With all apologies to Liza Minnelli, Bratz with a z simply goes zzzzz…

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08/10/07
Melissa Anderson
Time Out New York

Not that I was expecting much out of a movie based on a line of dolls, but this is an amateur production that should have gone straight to basic cable.

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08/09/07
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