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Uptown Girls
"They're about to teach each other how to act their age."
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- Stars
- Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Marley Shelton, Donald Faison, Jesse Spencer
- Director
- Boaz Yakin
- Language
- English
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Though I found Mr. Yakin's direction unexpectedly imaginative, and the script often incongruously subtle, I couldn't get into the spirit of all the whimsy, the reason being the surprising lack of charm in the two leads.
Full Review|Sep 26, 2003
Combine two mannered performances with a script intent on achieving maximum cuteness, and you've got one wince-inducing sugar rush.
Full Review|Aug 21, 2003It's excruciating, a film of forced humor and fake, grating sentimentality, featuring two lead performances that elicit neither affection nor empathy.
Full Review|Aug 15, 2003Though Murphy is radiant, and her laughs are infectious, her free-spiritedness is thrust in our face like a pointy object in a 3-D movie.
Full Review|Aug 15, 2003It's all too, too cute and too, too forced for words.
Aug 15, 2003An embarrassingly silly exercise that mostly serves as a platform for Brittany Murphy to model a fab wardrobe and glam hairstyles.
Full Review|Aug 14, 2003[A] comedy with no laughs.
Aug 14, 2003Fanning practically dares the audience to throw sharp objects at the screen with her thoroughly obnoxious performance.
Full Review|Jan 7, 2010...an incredibly formulaic setup that would be more at home in a made-for-TV movie starring Patricia Heaton and that little girl from Seventh Heaven.
Full Review|Jan 4, 2004Brittany Murphy and Dakota Fanning can't rise above a weak script in this riches-to-rags tale; "Uptown" is low-rent.
Full Review|Oct 7, 2003Several decent movies are screaming to get out of "Uptown Girls."
Aug 20, 2003Murphy creates a rather fascinating chemistry with Fanning, who resolutely absconds with the film as a controlling tot from hell, a fun-killing spinster trapped in a prepubescent body.
Full Review|Aug 19, 2003A weird, unsuccessful and by all accounts unreasoned blend of styles [that] seems shot and edited together by two entirely different people.
Full Review|Aug 18, 2003The sort of film that shuffles along sleepily, dazedly, barely aware of what it's doing and hardly caring whether the audience is still following it or not.
Full Review|Aug 17, 2003You're going to forget this one as soon as you finish watching. And if you don't, it will probably be because you want to complain about how uninspired and unoriginal it is.
Full Review|Aug 16, 2003Can two over-pampered but fundamentally lonely persons of the blonde female persuasion bond meaningfully with each other while shopping?
Full Review|Aug 21, 2003A modern fairytale that loads up big-time on the girly trappings but doesn't give you much in the way of plot or characters or even plain old sense.
Full Review|Aug 17, 2003Not an especially raucous comedy, but it is an unfunny, rhythmless one.
Aug 15, 2003When Uptown Girls isn't trying to play up its wacky high jinks ... it stoops to the kind of psychological character development films this shallow should really avoid like the plague.
Full Review|Aug 15, 2003There's nothing wrong with Uptown Girls that not seeing it won't fix.
Aug 15, 2003The film is close to a disaster in its remarkably rigid formula.
Aug 14, 2003When Uptown Girls is released on DVD, its commentary tracks should consist of a single looped phrase: 'We're truly sorry.'
Full Review|Aug 14, 2003It's possible that Uptown Girls will supplant Gigli as the summer's biggest joke.
Full Review|Aug 14, 2003It may be junk food with high sugar levels, but the inspired teaming of rising young actress Brittany Murphy and precocious tot Dakota Fanning makes you forget those hazardous sweeteners.
Aug 13, 2003horribly misguided
Feb 28, 2004Whether you buy Uptown Girls or not will depend on whether you're willing to go along with its utterly contrived and formulaic plot.
Jan 2, 2004While the movie hits on a bunch of emotional topics, the dialogue veers into the mawkish far more than necessary.
Full Review|Aug 27, 2003A reworking of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? with Fanning in the Davis role and, say, Emily Osment in the Crawford one might be a smart bet for some forward-thinking producer.
Full Review|Aug 21, 2003Cute little girl playing dress-up (and Dakota wasn't bad either) - this may not be classic cinema, but it fits nicely into the guilty pleasure category.
Full Review|Aug 17, 2003Brittany Murphy and Dakota Fanning make for a winning combination, and their characters' sometimes dark journeys do not always take the most obvious route to the inevitable happy ending.
Full Review|Aug 16, 2003Entirely unoriginal and unbelievably predictable, but director Boaz Yakin knows how to create Kodak moments for the crowd that desires such fare.
Full Review|Aug 16, 2003Yakin shuns caricature. His affection for all his feckless characters, even Fanning's narcissistic mom (Heather Locklear), is evident.
Full Review|Aug 21, 2003Locates Fanning's 'maturity' in a fear of germs that comes off as borderline psychotic, and Murphy's childlike free spirit in her apparent inability to avoid walking into walls.
Full Review|Aug 19, 2003A creepy, depressing and leering 'comedy' that's a virtual collection of 'What were they thinking?' moments.
Aug 15, 2003Director Boaz Yakin ... keeps shying from the darker material like a studio-trained racehorse, heading for the safer turf of slapstick and schmaltz.
Full Review|Aug 15, 2003Murphy's performance has a kind of ineffable mischievous innocence about it.
Full Review|Aug 15, 2003Uptown Girls lacks the urban specificity that helped to make The World of Henry Orient such an uptown-girl classic, but it works up a sentimental tug that should moisten the eyes of many a moppet and mom.
Full Review|Aug 14, 2003'El resultado es bastante mediocre, pues la cinta es bastante predecible y francamente aburrida'
Full Review|Jan 9, 2004What communicative compromise is there [for Yakin] to go from personal, gritty and well-made films, to such a vapid commercial plea?
Full Review|Dec 31, 2003If you're a fan of treacly, superficial stories about completely unlikable people forming friendships, or if you like pratfalls, then this is the movie for you.
Sep 6, 2003In truth, this isn't nearly as bad as it sounds. Fanning is really good and Murphy gives as good as she gets.
Aug 25, 2003Worth going Uptown for.
Aug 20, 2003Brittany Murphy is top billed, but nine-year-old Dakota Fanning almost makes the cloying, predictable film interesting.
Full Review|Aug 19, 2003Before you waste any money, let me remind you that bad movies do happen. Even Uptown.
Aug 19, 2003The film has a weird foot fetish. The part where she was barefoot on the city streets actually grossed me out. Now she's going to put those feet in her bed with all the city dirt all over them. Ewww.
Aug 16, 2003Brittany Murphy pulls off a few slapstick sight gags here, but nothing to compare with her hilarious pratfalls in 'Just Married.'
Full Review|Aug 15, 2003
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