Average Rating: 3.2/10
Reviews Counted: 117
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 111
Preposterous and predictable.
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 28
Preposterous and predictable.
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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 264,092
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
Jun 17, 2005 Wide
Nov 1, 2005
$16.2M
Universal Pictures
All Critics (118) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (112) | DVD (14)
The premise is patently ridiculous, but the target audience of 12-year-old girls will be too charmed by the genre requisites to care.
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.
Mostly the movie produces yawns when it's not producing awe that someone even bothered to make it.
In the cautionary dystopian science-fiction parable The Perfect Man, we are offered a terrifying vision of a possible future: a world ruled by Hilary Duff.
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.
Lighthearted comedy that also deals with serious issues.
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.
None of the leads convince or engage, and supporting characters are either gay stereotypes, routine little sisters or functional best friends.
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.
Disappointing romantic comedy that starts well but then takes a nosedive into cliché and sickly sweet sentimentality.
Disinterest gets stretched past disbelief.
Really enjoyed this film! A great feel good film!
June 23, 2011Super Reviewer
Holly Hamilton(Hilary Duff) is tired of moving from place to place because of her mother's failed relationships. They move to Brooklyn & Holly's mother takes a job in a bakery ran by her friend Dolores. So Holly, her mom Jean (Heather Locklear) & Holly's sister Zoe (Aria Wallace), are again getting a chance to start
January 27, 2008
Super Reviewer
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