The Perfect Man Reviews

...a surface treatment of an intriguing premise.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

It's shy about addressing anything that requires a moment's thought -- selfish irresponsible parents, selfishly bratty kids, lying, talking others into lying.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Despite a charismatic turn by Heather Locklear and comic relief from Carson Kressley, The Perfect Man is far from the perfect movie.

| Original Score: 1/4

The Perfect Man takes its idiotic plot and uses it as the excuse for scenes of awesome stupidity.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Even by the suspended-disbelief standards of fluff it is unnerving; it creates a movie world that has no idea of the boundaries being violated.

| Original Score: D

No one but the staunchest of Duff fans should waste their time with this movie and even they will have to be fooling themselves if they claim to enjoy it.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Nobody's perfect.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Duff comes across as so self-absorbed that her trademark perkiness bleeds into selfishness.

| Original Score: C-

An audience has to buy that Locklear's character, Jean Hamilton, gets dumped by every guy she dates. And whenever this happens, she immediately moves her family to another part of the continent.

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.

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I would say the filmmakers must be retarded, but even the mentally challenged know not to center a movie around the idea that Heather Locklear is having trouble finding a man.

Full Review | Original Score: F

Mostly the movie produces yawns when it's not producing awe that someone even bothered to make it.

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Locklear survives the material, but only barely, and provides the real reason why anyone should view The Perfect Man.

Full Review | Original Score: D+

You'll most likely want to throw up and call it a night after swallowing this big ball of cotton candy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Many scenes from the previews aren't in the film -- a telltale sign of desperate last-minute tampering.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The faux lover angle isn't exactly new but when a daughter is more or less trying to woo her mother, it's not original, just weirdly creepy if not a tad incestual.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/10

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.

Full Review | Original Score: D

Inherently mawkish, simplistic and exceedingly numbing, this movie is woefully incomplete-much like a stale Twinkie treat without the creamy filling inside.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5

I can't see anyone really enjoying this.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

A film so awful and devoid of anything that could even loosely be described as entertaining that it makes me hope that Duff will move away from acting and concentrate on her musical career.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

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