Material Girls: Critic Reviews

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.

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.

It succeeds on its own terms. These days, even pre teens live in a material world.

A superficial tween comedy that mocks celebutantes like the Olsen twins while simultaneously pushing stars Hilary and Haylie Duff as their replacements.

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.

Maybe Immaterial Girls would have been a more appropriate title.

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

Even by the low standards of the genre it represents, this female teen comedy represents a new nadir.

Paris and Nicky Hilton exhibit more character nuance. And they're vaguely more entertaining to watch.

A brain-numbing, fluffy flick for tweens.

Sometimes I hate my job. I really hate it.

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.

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.

"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.

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

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.

A few funny lines spool out intermittently, but it's the inane-ness of Material Girls that grates. While Hollywood sisters Haylie and Hilary Duff tell each other money doesn't bring happiness, their actions speak otherwise

The villain (a greedy corporate man of some sort) isn't very fleshed out, but it's hard to believe that he's any worse than the two self-serving, appearance-obsessed protagonists, with whom the film asks young girls everywhere to identify.