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Material Girls (2006)

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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.

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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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Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 220,820

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Movie Info

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

PG, 1 hr. 38 min.

Drama, Comedy

John Quaintance, Jessica O'Toole, Amy Rardin

Dec 12, 2006

$11.3M

MGM/UA

Cast

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.

March 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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It's not Clueless, just clueless.

August 23, 2006 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Entertainment Weekly
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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.

August 21, 2006 Comment
New York Times
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It succeeds on its own terms. These days, even pre teens live in a material world.

August 21, 2006 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment (1)
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Even by the low standards of the genre it represents, this female teen comedy represents a new nadir.

August 21, 2006 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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It's sort of reassuring that although Madge has seemingly given up starring in bad movies, her company is still financing terrible scripts.

August 21, 2006 Comment
New York Post
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A brain-numbing, fluffy flick for tweens.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

An insipid mess not worthy of the tweens who flock to such flicks.

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | Comment
Boston Phoenix

Sometimes I hate my job. I really hate it.

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comments (2)
Cinema Crazed

Along the way, self-discovery bangs 'em over the head.

November 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | Comment
Hollywood.com

The Duff sisters are pleasant personalities, but the vapid bimbosity of their characters quickly becomes grating.

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
Sacramento News & Review

Forced to endure such casually offensive nonsense, the viewer ends up slumming it far more than the duff protagonists.

June 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

A Duff movie indeed.

March 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | Comment
Observer [UK]

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.

March 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

Watchable enough and by no means as bad as The Perfect Man, although there's not much here that'll interest the over-12s.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: ViewLondon | Comment
ViewLondon

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.

February 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Messy, patronising and tonally confused, this vanity project - timed to co-incide with Hilary Duff's perfume launch - quite frankly stinks.

February 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

"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.

February 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Total Film | Comment
Total Film

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.

February 27, 2007 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment

seems more of an ode to Paris and Nicky Hilton than a decent vehicle for these sisters

February 5, 2007 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | Comment
7M Pictures

Frankly movies like Material Girls sicken me; they're base and soulless and entirely unworthy of the celluloid they were filmed upon.

December 10, 2006 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Material Girls

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
murphmann93
Bethany Murphy

Super Reviewer

This film was weak all over. 1not a good plot 2 not good acting.

June 3, 2010
erika250
erika bruhns

Super Reviewer

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