The Perfect Man (2005)
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Reviews Counted: 126
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 118
Preposterous and predictable, The Perfect Man manages few laughs with its poorly paced sitcom script, cookie-cutter characters and contrived plotting.
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 33
Preposterous and predictable, The Perfect Man manages few laughs with its poorly paced sitcom script, cookie-cutter characters and contrived plotting.
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A girl plays Cupid for her mom, but has to invent the right man to woo her in this romantic comedy. Jean Hamilton (Heather Locklear) is a single mother with two daughters, teenaged Holly (Hilary Duff) and grade-school-aged Zoe (Aria Wallace). Fortysomething Jean has stumbled in and out of a number of bad relationships in her lifetime, and is desperate to find a good man; however, Holly has grown a bit tired of Jean's favored means of therapy after a bad breakup -- packing up the family and
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Cast
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Hilary Duff
Holly Hamilton -
Heather Locklear
Jean Hamilton -
Chris Noth
Uncle Ben -
Mike O'Malley
Lenny Horton -
Ben Feldman
Adam Forrest -
Vanessa Lengies
Amy Pearl -
Caroline Rhea
Gloria -
Kym E. Whitley
Dolores -
Aria Wallace
Zoe Hamilton -
Fran Drescher
Fran Reeves -
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All Critics (126) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (118) | DVD (14)
The latest dose of Hilary Duff fluff is essentially a series of gags and scenarios that range from implausible to outlandish.
Top CriticThe premise is patently ridiculous, but the target audience of 12-year-old girls will be too charmed by the genre requisites to care.
None of the leads convince or engage, and supporting characters are either gay stereotypes, routine little sisters or functional best friends.
Like a Nike commercial without a shot of the sneakers.
[The] situation is mined mostly for mild chuckles and tepid sentiment.
The Perfect Man has a plot that turns sweet and charming Hillary Duff into a serial liar. She's not just telling little fibs. She's engaging in a prolonged and kind of mean practical joke on her mother.
Even ardent Hilary Duff fans will have a hard time swallowing this thoroughly dim-witted romantic comedy.
The intrigues are laboriously contrived, the film exudes disingenuous sentiments, and it has three happy endings -- one for Mum and one for each daughter.
Watching this unspeakably rubbish teen romcom is, to quote David Lodge's classic description of National Service, like a punishment for a crime you can't remember committing.
[Hilary Duff movies] never do solve their one nagging flaw: Duff's characters are remarkably self-possessed for teens but not enough to recognize the sitcoms they inhabit.
Another month, another anodyne tween-com from Hilary Duff.
It all drags on at a leaden pace, broken up occasionally by a musical montage.
I can't see anyone really enjoying this.
Hollywood cranks out another prosaic teen-girl-romantic-comedy from its bottomless cultural vacuum in this Hilary Duff vehicle that no non-female person over the age of 12 should suffer through.
It's funny, poignant and the characters are appealing.
The sparkling charm which Duff once evinced has largely faded with familiarity and too many indifferent projects.
The Perfect Man, starring Hilary Duff, isn't very good. The problem is how to critique it without taking the obvious cheap shots at its likable but over-exposed young star.
Many scenes from the previews aren't in the film -- a telltale sign of desperate last-minute tampering.
The occasional one-liner is wasted amid a sea of clichés and preposterous situations in this Duff vehicle that forgot to put the romance in romantic comedy.
Keeping the ruse going involves gifts and notes of the "just missed you" variety.
With an emphasis on wacky misunderstandings and situations, the film has all the complexity of a sitcom (a thoroughly mediocre sitcom at that).
Excuse me, but who are these people?
Everything bad about teen chick flicks is encapsulated in The Perfect Man.
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