Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 06, 2005 | | Summary | My Favorite Movie! | Content
 | I loved this movie! I can't believe all of the bad reviews. This is a great movie! Don't listen to all of those Hilary Duff haters. She is great in this movie and I would recomend it to anyone. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 30, 2005 | | Summary | Don't bother with this one.... | Content
| Here it is folks.Another bland been- there-done-that romance film.Telling by the critics reviews and the ones on amazon, I will not be seeing this film anytime soon. Why do you ask? Well, one thing for sure, it has Hilary Duff in it. I'm no fan of Duff's-Lizzie McGuire was enough. It's a great show, actually, but Duff didn't want to be known as Lizzie for the rest of her life, so she left the thing that made her famous and went to something mediocre.
Bottom Line:Duff, stick to TV and avoid music and movies. You will be saving a third world country. :D |
| Rating | | | Date | July 28, 2005 | | Summary | great movie!!!!!!!!!!! | Content
| this movie is great and hilary duff rocks! this pedro guy above me is soooooo way stupid!!!to think that about hilary! because she rocks !!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK HILARY DUFF!! YOU ROCK!!!!!!! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 10, 2005 | | Summary | You Will Love It | Content
| Holly Hamilton (Hilary Duff) Is sick of her mothers search for the perfact man, In the begining hollys sister and mother move to Brokylen NY for there new "Adventure" in to the dating world. Then holly tries to hook her mom up with her new best friends uncel, ben (Chris Noth). In the mean time some boy falls in love with holly and she too gets sweped off her feet. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 10, 2005 | | Summary | Average | Content
| Romantic comedies are hard beasts to review. Romantic comedies staring Hilary Duff when you aren't in your pre-teens or teens are even harder to review. And, to get my biases out of the way, add to this the fact that I don't particularly like most romantic comedies and you got yourself a problem.
What we have is the basic lie structure for romantic comedies. The one where someone tells a lie (see She's All That et al) that, in this case, was to help someone out. And of course, we all know that if you tell one large lie you have to keep making up equally exagerated lies in order to keep your first lie from being found out. And this, of course, finds the protagonist in various zany and increasingly hard to get out of situations. And of course, there's the double love interests and the mid point where the lie finally backfires and they must pick up the pieces until ultimately they get back together and realize that they are all meant for each other (in this case a double set for both Hilary Duff and her mother, Heather Locklear).
But what makes romantic comedies enjoyable is the ride from plot point to plot point. Yes, almost all romantic comedies follow the very cliched and very formulaic plot structure (see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for one that doesn't exactly) but it is the ride and the coming together of the plot points that makes for an "enjoyable" (if one likes the genre) ride. In this case, for the most part the ride isn't that great.
It's merely an average film with a couple genuinely humorous moments. But the plot and the ride it goes on is just too implausible as it continues to warrant a must see film. It's simply a semi-enjoyable teenie film.
Finally, what most (not all but 95% of them) romantic movies do offer is a situation that, in the end, resolves everything in a nice and neat bow. And there's something to be said for a movie that offers a brighter future. Yes, it may be cliched and the creative wells exhausted, but sometimes it's needed. Sometimes, a movie where everything, regardless of the odds, all ends with everyone's feelings fixed. If so, then you might find some enjoyment here. For those who love Hilary Duff (my movie companion is one of them) this movie is a no-brainer. For those, like me, who want a little more depth to their romantic comedies, you might want to look further.
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