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Bratz: The Movie (2007)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:2
Rotten:20
Average Rating:3.2/10
Consensus: Full of mixed messages and dubious role-models, Bratz is too shallow even for its intended audience.
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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Reviews for Bratz: The Movie
Voight never loses touch with his prosthetic nose, perhaps hoping he won't be recognized.
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.
A silly movie that's essentially a series of clichés strung together into a semblance of a movie.
Bratz is a disappointment because the characters come off less as the girly superheroes they should be, and more as, well, brats.
The proud owners of Bratz dolls almost surely have had more imaginative fantasies about them than anything onscreen.
[An] excruciatingly inane high-school comedy inspired by a line of sexually suggestive dolls aimed at 9-year-old girls.
The best that can be said about the big-screen Bratz is that they are not nearly as appalling as their toy-shelf twins.
Parents beware. Bratz will rot your child's mind, drain her soul and likely encourage early Botox dependency.
If you let your daughter see this movie, set aside time to discuss the sea of mixed messages.
Frivolous, and ultimately forgettable? Of course. But if this movie is about high school tolerance, then superficial teenagers deserve our compassion, too.
This atrocious comedy doesn't have an idea in its head but still screams at the top of its lungs, taking pains to distinguish between its rich heroines and their even richer enemies (including Jon Voight).
If you ever wanted a movie to put in the time capsule so future generations can puzzle over the bankruptcy of our current kiddie culture, Bratz is it.
It takes a certain amount of genius to stage a derisive spoof of MTV’s My Super Sweet 16 while enthusiastically aping the very materialism it promotes.
M&M-colored high school fantasia for aspirational 10- and 12-year-old girls who'll be shocked (or, hopefully, delighted) when they get to ninth grade and find out life isn't so super-Bratz-fabulous.
It's earnest, silly and sweet, with just enough food fights and musical numbers to keep everyone else from gagging on the goo.
In the end, the most offensive part of Bratz isn't its stereotypes or brand expansion; it's the sorry state of Jon Voight's career.
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