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64
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63
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63
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60
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57
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57
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55
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53
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52
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51
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49
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47
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47
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47
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44
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43
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Bratz: The Movie
Lionsgate
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Anneliese van der Pol,
Stephen Lunsford,
Paula Abdul,
Skyler Shaye,
Janel Parrish,
Malese Jow,
Nathalia Ramos,
and
Logan Browning
The highly popular dolls BRATZ finally come alive in BRATZ, the first live action feature film based on the chic fashion dolls. As long as they can remember, Yasmin, Jade, Sasha and Cloe have been "BFF" - Best Friends Forever. Inseparable since they first met, the young girls have always supported each other's individual personalities, talents and fabulous fashion styles. But now as the foursome enter Carry Nation High, Yasmin, Jade, Sasha and Cloe face a brand new world: a blackboard jungle, where for the first time they discover life as a teenager means dealing with a system of social cliques, all strictly enforced by student body president Meredith Baxter Dimly. Finding themselves being pulled further and further apart, the girls band together and rise up as "the Bratz" to fight peer pressure, in turn learning how true empowerment means standing up for your friends, being true to oneself and living out one's dreams & aspirations. (Lionsgate)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Adam De La Peña (story)
David Eilenberg (story)
Susan Estelle Jansen
Susie Singer Carter
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Sean McNamara
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 27, 2007
Theatrical: August 3, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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63
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.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
While often cliche ridden and preposterous, it's too busy and loud to put anyone to sleep.

50
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.

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.

42
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.

40
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.

40
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.

38
USA Today
Claudia Puig
A silly movie that's essentially a series of clichés strung together into a semblance of a movie.

38
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.

30
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.

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.

30
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Bratz is way too long.

30
Los Angeles Times
John Anderson
It's a movie on the wrong side side of the so-bad-it's-good line.

0
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.)

0
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This atrocious comedy doesn't have an idea in its head but still screams at the top of its lungs.

0
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.

0
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.

0
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.


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