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The Perfect Man
Metascore
27 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 29 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 29
  3. Negative: 18 out of 29
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  1. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Chris Hewitt
    58
    In Duff's movies, the question is whether the movie will find enough interesting stuff to compensate for the blandness at the center. The Perfect Man does.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    50
    It's a chick flick with a vengeance but even in its most sentimental moments, stars Hilary Duff and Heather Locklear make this feel-good-about-yourself movie feel ... well, good.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Allison Benedikt
    50
    I've had the unique pleasure of reviewing almost all of Duff's movies, and if there's one thing to say about the girl, she's consistent: nice, sweet, blond, inoffensive and uninspiring.
  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    50
    To be endured rather than enjoyed.
  5. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Jennie Punter
    50
    But for a lightweight summer romantic comedy, The Perfect Man delivers the goods and includes a couple of scenes that are, surprisingly, fresh and quite funny, both of which, incidentally, involve the music of Styx.
  6. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Angel Cohn
    50
    This cream puff of a romantic comedy is sweet enough, but lack of substance makes it deeply unsatisfying.
  7. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    50
    Even though the supporting cast is likable and the film hits all the beats of its formula, it's weak, as if everyone has been to the well one too many times.
  8. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    50
    The premise is patently ridiculous, but the target audience of 12-year-old girls will be too charmed by the genre requisites to care.
  9. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Chuck Wilson
    40
    Rosman and Wendkos run dry of ideas in the film's inert, overextended finale, when the "Believe in yourself" speeches grow so thick that even the Duff-devoted may start rolling their eyes.
  10. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Keith Phipps
    40
    Where Locklear's careful, clipped delivery confirms that she's better suited for TV stardom than the movies, every time Duff opens her mouth, she confirms that her natural home is in magazines. Or voicing animated squirrels. Either one would work.
  11. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    40
    For most part, The Perfect Man is too bland to merit anything more censorious than a stifled yawn.
  12. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    38
    The story has a definite ick factor that detracts from even the small pleasures the movie might offer its teen audience.
  13. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    38
    This movie makes it official: No matter how awful, even the networks and basic cable are now officially hipper than the studios.
  14. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    38
    There's one thing to be said for The Perfect Man: It confirms my belief that I'll never need to see another Hilary Duff movie until (1) she turns 30 or (2) she plays a crackhead in "Requiem for a Dream II."
  15. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marrit Ingman
    30
    The Perfect Man is like Teen People come to life. It's perfectly PG, and it's probably not the worst thing a young lady could see, depending on your criteria. Cinematically, it's like watching your lawn grow.
  16. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Matt Singer
    30
    The result is like a Nike commercial without a shot of the sneakers.
  17. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    30
    It's a lame Heather Locklear romantic comedy and a lame Hilary Duff romantic comedy all in one!
  18. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Carina Chocano
    30
    The movie is a tortured marshmallow.
  19. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    30
    A series of cutesy but flat-footed jokes leading up to a foregone romantic conclusion.
  20. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    25
    The Perfect Man crawls hand over bloody hand up the stony face of this plot, while we in the audience do not laugh because it is not nice to laugh at those less fortunate than ourselves, and the people in this movie are less fortunate than the people in just about any other movie I can think of, simply because they are in it.
  21. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    25
    Repetitious teen-targeted fluff.
  22. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Connie Ogle
    25
    Embarrassingly shoddy film.
  23. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    25
    Most of this movie is beyond lame. It almost makes "A Cinderella Story" -- the ever-mugging Duff's surprise hit of last summer -- look like a real movie by comparison.
  24. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Karen Heller
    25
    Once upon a time there were made-for-television movies. Now there are made-for-television movies for movie theaters. The Perfect Man, another anemic Hilary Duff vehicle, is a case in point.
  25. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    25
    There's just the matter of facing it: that The Perfect Man is just something slapped together -- by people who don't care, for an audience they figure will care even less.
  26. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Staff [Not Credited]
    25
    So imperfect that it may qualify as one of the summer's worst movies.
  27. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    20
    Baby, when you walk out of a movie thinking, "Say, that Heather Locklear was pretty darn good," the movie's got some problems!
  28. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    10
    The range of Ms. Locklear's lobotomized acting runs from mild irritation to mild melancholy, expressed without expression.
  29. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    0
    What sin did Heather Locklear commit to deserve her role in The Perfect Man?
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