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Avg. Critic Score: 21 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
8 Iffy for 8+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe Stein

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

  • 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. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly |

    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. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety |

    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. Read full review

  • 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. Read full review

  • 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. Read full review

  • 38
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    A silly movie that's essentially a series of clichs strung together into a semblance of a movie. Read full review

  • 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. Read full review

  • 30
    Los Angeles Times | John Anderson

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

  • 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. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 8+ Material girls in immaterial comedy for tweens.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie derives from a popular line of dolls on the market with an outrageous arsenal of fashion accessories. A pro-shopping, pro-consumerism message underlies all the preaching about acceptance, confidence, standing by your friends, etc. There's a heavy emphasis on physical appearance; overweight or plain-looking girls are not very much in evidence. Food fights happen more than once.
  • Families can talk about whether the movie promotes an enlightened attitude, or lots of clothing, accessories, and Bratz dolls. Could its message have come across without all the materialism? What's the appeal of the Bratz dolls in the first place?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: The four heroines are multi-cultural and (mostly) confident in their abilities and friendships. Furthermore, they dare to socialize with people outside their clique at school, and one even urges her divorced parents to be civil to each other. There's a big qualifier though -- as befits characters based on a product toy line -- that they're fixated on fashion and material possessions (Buy! Buy! Buy!). Some stereotyping: the Asian-descended one is a science-math whiz. A boyfriend character is deaf, but defies the disability.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence and scariness: Some slapstick pratfalls, food fights, and a hostile athlete gets martial-arts punched (and impressed) by a science student.
  • sex false0 Sexy stuff: A few provocative or tight dresses on the girls, and bikinis at poolside.
  • language false0 Language: Not an issue
  • consumerism false5 Consumerism: Not only are the main characters inspired by a line of toys, they're surrounded by (and practically engulfed in) brand-name clothing, cars, computers (Apple, of course), and a shopping-as-empowerment message.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false0 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Not an issue
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