Bratz: The Movie

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.

San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein

While often cliche ridden and preposterous, it's too busy and loud to put anyone to sleep.

The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden

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.

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.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

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.

Washington Post Teresa Wiltz

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.

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.

USA Today Claudia Puig

A silly movie that's essentially a series of clichés strung together into a semblance of a movie.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

The best that can be said about the big-screen Bratz is that they are not nearly as appalling as their toy-shelf twins.

The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

Arriving as inevitably as puberty, Bratz introduces the swollen-headed, fashion-addicted dolls of the title to a live-action movie.

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.

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Bratz is way too long.

Los Angeles Times John Anderson

It's a movie on the wrong side side of the so-bad-it's-good line.

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

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.)

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

This atrocious comedy doesn't have an idea in its head but still screams at the top of its lungs.

Boston Globe Ty Burr

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.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

No, Bratz, an unwitting and witless critique of American consumerism run amok, does not star Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

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.