Average Rating: 2.6/10
Reviews Counted: 52
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 50
As a film, Material Girls fails to live up to even the limited corporeal goals of its title.
Average Rating: 2.2/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 12
As a film, Material Girls fails to live up to even the limited corporeal goals of its title.
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Stripped of their wealth and forced to fend for themselves when the multi-million-dollar cosmetics company inherited from their father suffers due to controversy, two sisters who have never known the simple life must finally find out how the other half lives in a high-fashion comedy about hard times starring Hilary and Haylie Duff. Ava (Haylie) and Tanza (Hilary) are teen heiresses whose charmed lives consist of little more than showing up at all the hottest celebrity parties and putting in the
Aug 18, 2006 Wide
Dec 12, 2006
$11.3M
MGM/UA
All Critics (52) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (52) | DVD (15)
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.
It's not Clueless, just clueless.
An incompetent spin on the poor-little-rich-girl story, the film involves a lot of wardrobe changes and product placements, and a smidgen of intrigue and some chaste romance.
It succeeds on its own terms. These days, even pre teens live in a material world.
Even by the low standards of the genre it represents, this female teen comedy represents a new nadir.
It's sort of reassuring that although Madge has seemingly given up starring in bad movies, her company is still financing terrible scripts.
A brain-numbing, fluffy flick for tweens.
An insipid mess not worthy of the tweens who flock to such flicks.
Sometimes I hate my job. I really hate it.
Along the way, self-discovery bangs 'em over the head.
The Duff sisters are pleasant personalities, but the vapid bimbosity of their characters quickly becomes grating.
Forced to endure such casually offensive nonsense, the viewer ends up slumming it far more than the duff protagonists.
A Duff movie indeed.
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.
Watchable enough and by no means as bad as The Perfect Man, although there's not much here that'll interest the over-12s.
Co-stars Anjelica Huston and Lukas Haas attempt to rise above it all, but you can almost feel them wincing at the confused tone and risible dialogue.
Messy, patronising and tonally confused, this vanity project - timed to co-incide with Hilary Duff's perfume launch - quite frankly stinks.
"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.
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.
seems more of an ode to Paris and Nicky Hilton than a decent vehicle for these sisters
Frankly movies like Material Girls sicken me; they're base and soulless and entirely unworthy of the celluloid they were filmed upon.
I was a tween when I watched this, so I liked it more then than I realise I do now. I wouldn't say it was a disastourous film but it wasn't one of Hilary Duff's best. It's your average chick flick although does educate you on how money isn't everything and the people in your life are much more important and worth more
June 23, 2011
Super Reviewer
This film was weak all over. 1not a good plot 2 not good acting.
June 3, 2010
Super Reviewer
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