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Lizzie McGuire Movie, The
EMAILPRINTWalt Disney Pictures / Buena Vista Pictures

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 28 critic reviews
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Based on 54 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Musical
Written by:
Susan Estelle Jansen
Ed Decter
John J. Strauss
Directed by: Jim Fall
Release Date:
Theatrical: May 2, 2003
DVD: August 12, 2003
Running Time: 90 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG for mild thematic elements
Starring Hilary Duff, Adam Lamberg, Clayton Snyder, Ashlie Brillault, Jake Thomas, Brendan Kelly, Carly Schroeder, and Robert Carradine
Disney serves up the comic foibles of lovable Lizzie McGuire and her pals, who all pack their bags and plan to live la dolce vita while on a class trip to Italy. When Lizzie is mistaken for Isabella (who is part of an Italian pop duo) the adventure really begins. (Disney)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
San Francisco Chronicle C.W. Nevius
It works. "Lizzie" is wholesome, smart and sweet.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown
Let's face it: Lizzie McGuire (Hilary Duff) is just too darn polished to be a junior-high underdog, even by the standards of her 'luxe suburban environs.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Doesn't try to be more than what it is: a romantic fantasy caper.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The action is light and lively all the way, poking inventive fun at everything from nosy little brothers to clueless hotel managers and romantic Romans who aren't as glamorous as they claim to be.
Read Full Review >Premiere Laine Ewen
Duff is a charming heroine who carries the movie cheerfully, if not gracefully--the pratfalls come early and often.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dave Kehr
The picture unfolds as a light romantic comedy that adults will probably find familiar but tolerable, while their age-appropriate offspring will be transported to new heights of cinematic enchantment.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt
By filling in what the story lacks in originality with easy attractions like pretty faces, set to fluffy music, the filmmakers lose the outsider edge the Lizzie McGuire franchise was built on.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Not a single moment of creativity or intrigue is to be found in the big-screen debut of the Disney Channel's most popular sitcom character.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Karen Heller
Lizzie McGuire is an old-fashioned, harmless dolce, made all the more charming by Duff's winning appeal.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Christine Dolen
The success of The Lizzie McGuire Movie, in which Duff acts and sings while playing both her beloved character and an Italian look-alike, is probably a slam dunk. That doesn't mean it's a great movie.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
So who am I to carp that the film trades in the amiable realism of the show for just another watered-down pop star fantasy? Heck, it beats the Olsen twins. But not by much.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
Disney's big-screen expansion of their hit TV show is nirvana for the pubescent crowd.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Jean Oppenheimer
The movie lacks the adult humor of such kid flicks as "Shrek" and "Lilo & Stitch," but the target audience at an advance screening was shrieking with joy throughout.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
Just two weeks after successfully targeting boys with "Holes," Disney is giving girls something they want with this mild, quasi-romantic romp.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Ted Shen
Director Jim Fall smoothly paces the action while staying true to the girlie thrills (luxury hotels, scenic jaunts, a fashion makeover), delivering an empty-headed but enjoyable romp.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
So fluffy and sitcom shallow that it makes "Gidget Goes to Rome" and its other many predecessors in the young-American-girl-goes-to-Italy-and-falls-in-love genre look like high art.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Angel Cohn
Fans may be disappointed that some of the show's secondary characters, like Lizzie's pal Miranda, are AWOL from this Prince and the Pauper-style escapade, and some of the scenes involving Gellman are disappointingly flat.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Hilary Duff is beautiful and skilled, and I hope she finds something worthwhile to do with her talent before she truly does become the next Britney Spears and has to start worrying about the next Hilary Duff.
Read Full Review >Film Threat David Grove
The film is corny, predictable, and manipulative to the point that you feel like theres electrodes attached from the screen to your brain, but, by the end of this film, Ill be damned if I didnt feel genuine affection for it and Lizzie in particular.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour
The movie, with all its brashness and crassness, can still claim noble motives in encouraging insecure young people to seek the pop diva buried deep within.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
The movie is sure to appeal to fans of the show. But when quality family films, such as "Holes" and "Bend It Like Beckham," are also in theaters, why waste your time on this drivel? The answer, of course, is the kids will insist on it.
Read Full Review >New York Post Megan Lehmann
Lizzie McGuire's "Movie" doesn't try to be anything more than a superficial escapist fantasy for fans of the show.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
As it goes with the TV show, so it goes with the movie, which benefits from being shot largely in Rome and suffers from trying to stretch its sitcom antics to feature length.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly David Chute
The cast of the Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire romped strenuously through a plot that would be old hat as a two-parter on a sitcom.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Ray Conlogue
There's not a scrap of imagination in the script.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Jane Horwitz
If your kids are too young to sit unsupervised, get together with other parents and pay an older sibling or sitter to go.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.5 (out of 10) based on 54 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Katherine gave it a0:
This movie was torture to watch. The script was awful. Hilary Duff's voice made me want to claw my ear drums out. As for her acting, I wanted to ask the person next to me to blind my with a fork while I was watching the movie. Over all, I give this movie a big 0.
Mary G. gave it a1:
Hilary Duff does NOT know how to act she is always fidgeting around with her hair, putting her hands on her hips, and those lips of her the way she always puts them! It gets on peoples' nerves!!! literally, this is seen in almost all her movies!!!
Abby N. gave it a9:
I loved it and I really liked the part when Hilary Duff sang.
didier s. gave it a10:
I love this movie.
Remy gave it an8:
It was a great childrens movie but it could be a bit longer!
Sam gave it a2:
San Fransisco Chronicle, what the hell is wrong with you? First Pitch Black, then A.V.P., then Sin CIty?. All excellent films that you gave zeroes, yet you give this an 100?!?!?!?! In agreement with Sarah M., Hilary is a stuck-up b...h that thinks she can act and sing, but she's a talentless moron for starring in this crap and the awful Raise Your Voice (I gave it a 2). In fact, her only decent film was the enjoyable Cinderella Story (and i didn't wanna see that because of this!). Back to the San Fransisco Chronicle, you people are just some sick bastards playing a sick Joke.
Tony M. gave it a 10:
I Absolutley Love This Movie.
