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TV Guide
Adam Schubak
Thanks to the smart casting of Jon Voight as the school’s principal and Lainie Kazan as Yasmin’s beloved Bubbie, the two-hour run time won't be a complete bore for adults.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
While often cliche ridden and preposterous, it's too busy and loud to put anyone to sleep.
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| 50 |
The Hollywood Reporter
Finally, a postfeminist multicultural musical extravaganza for 8-year-old girls. Is Bratz not the most totally stylin' movie ever? Grownups won't think so, but for their daughters who share a "passion for fashion" with the dolls that are giving Barbie a run for her money, it will be the event of the season.
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| 42 |
Entertainment Weekly
Gregory Kirschling
A movie based on a doll line, is an M&M-colored high school fantasia for aspirational 10- and 12-year-old girls who'll be shocked (or, hopefully, delighted) when they get to ninth grade and find out life isn't so super-Bratz-fabulous.
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
Bratz's strong anti-clique sermonizing would be slightly more convincing if it weren't tethered to a movie romanticizing the most awesome clique ever.
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Washington Post
This is a movie for a grade-schooler's -- a female grade-schooler's -- sensibility. It's earnest, silly and sweet, with just enough food fights and musical numbers to keep everyone else from gagging on the goo.
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Variety
John Anderson
Bratz’s references and parodies are consistently on-target, if always way too over-the-top. Every line of dialogue could plausibly take an exclamation point.
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| 38 |
USA Today
A silly movie that's essentially a series of clichés strung together into a semblance of a movie.
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| 38 |
New York Daily News
The best that can be said about the big-screen Bratz is that they are not nearly as appalling as their toy-shelf twins.
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| 30 |
The New York Times
Arriving as inevitably as puberty, Bratz introduces the swollen-headed, fashion-addicted dolls of the title to a live-action movie.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
Jessica Gross
In the end, the most offensive part of Bratz isn't its stereotypes or brand expansion; it's the sorry state of Jon Voight's career.
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| 30 |
Austin Chronicle
Bratz is way too long.
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| 30 |
Los Angeles Times
It's a movie on the wrong side side of the so-bad-it's-good line.
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Chicago Tribune
The most horrifying film of 2007, Bratz is based on the popular line of collagen-lipped, doe-eyed slut-ette dolls and their male companions, "the boys with a passion for fashion ... and the Bratz!" (In other words, they're bi-curious.)
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Chicago Reader
This atrocious comedy doesn't have an idea in its head but still screams at the top of its lungs.
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Boston Globe
A live-action film based on a line of dolls, it's pure marketing chum for tweeners: a proudly shallow, purposefully bland ode to girly-girl narcissism. I could actually feel my brain stem shrivel up as I watched it.
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New York Post
No, Bratz, an unwitting and witless critique of American consumerism run amok, does not star Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.
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Miami Herald
In the end, Bratz celebrates something even more important than good grades or good friends: the vital acquisition of totally awesome shoes. Fitting for a movie that exists only to separate you from your paycheck.
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