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Spoilers: Material Girls is a "so called" featherweight teen-skewing comedy with Hilary and Haylie Duff typecast as glam celebutantes.
The Duff sisters, Hilary's the blonde, Haylie the brunette are perhaps too convincing for their own good in early scenes as spoiled and self-absorbed rich girls who, to paraphrase Prince, appear to have IQs smaller than their shoe sizes. Blithely oblivious to anything outside their cocoon of comfort, Tanzie (Hilary) and Ava Marchetta (Haylie) devote themselves to partying frequently and dressing fashionably when they're not occupied with minimal duties as the ubiquitous "faces" for the eponymous cosmetics firm founded by their late father.
For most of the first half-hour or so, the Marchetta sisters come across as insufferable ditzes, even during their random acts of noblesse oblige. (When a worshipful underling compliments Tanzie's dress, Tanzie beams brightly and responds: "Thank you. Maybe when I'm finished with it, I'll give it to you.")
After a tabloid TV reporter (Henry Cho) breaks the news that Marchetta products may have disfiguring side effects, the company's stock nosedives, corporate assets are frozen -- and the sisters become social pariahs. So...Tanzie and Ava set out to clear their father's name (and reclaim their father's fortune) by disproving the reports of disfiguring side effects.
A bad situation gets appreciably worse when, thanks to their own dim-wittedness, Tanzie and Ava manage to burn down their mansion and lose their expensive car. They wind up having to rely on the hospitality of their former maid (Maria Conchita Alonso) while trying to master the working-class routine of riding the bus, applying for jobs and doing really, really gross things like washing dishes.
While doing so, each sibling acquires her very own romantic interest: a pro bono lawyer (Lukas Haas) for Ava, a hunky lab assistant (Marcus Coloma) for Tanzie.
My Opinion:
I haven't watched anything that is more dumbly lacking in subtlety. Never. Stupid, meaningless plot, crap acting, racist comments and so many more negative things. Frankly movies like Material Girls sicken me. Although I wasn't expecting anything more intelligent or professional, because of the fact that it got only a 2.0(How embarrassing!)and I don't like Hil or her sister at all, my friend still dragged me to the theaters. Personally,I couldn't spot anything that was meant to be funny in this movie, let alone any talented acting skills.
Do not waste your money and time for a raff like this. The Duff's sucked in this movie.
1/10
score 1/10
AirheadWithAttitude 24 January 2007
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