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Avg. Critic Score: 56 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
7 OK for kids 7+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | C.W. Nevius

    It works. "Lizzie" is wholesome, smart and sweet. Read full review

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly |

    Let's face it: Lizzie McGuire (Hilary Duff) is just too darn polished to be a junior-high underdog, even by the standards of her 'luxe suburban environs. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Doesn't try to be more than what it is: a romantic fantasy caper. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Dave Kehr

    The picture unfolds as a light romantic comedy that adults will probably find familiar but tolerable, while their age-appropriate offspring will be transported to new heights of cinematic enchantment. Read full review

  • 63
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    So who am I to carp that the film trades in the amiable realism of the show for just another watered-down pop star fantasy? Heck, it beats the Olsen twins. But not by much. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Just two weeks after successfully targeting boys with "Holes," Disney is giving girls something they want with this mild, quasi-romantic romp. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Hilary Duff is beautiful and skilled, and I hope she finds something worthwhile to do with her talent before she truly does become the next Britney Spears and has to start worrying about the next Hilary Duff. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Gene Seymour

    The movie, with all its brashness and crassness, can still claim noble motives in encouraging insecure young people to seek the pop diva buried deep within. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    The movie is sure to appeal to fans of the show. But when quality family films, such as "Holes" and "Bend It Like Beckham," are also in theaters, why waste your time on this drivel? The answer, of course, is the kids will insist on it. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post |

    If your kids are too young to sit unsupervised, get together with other parents and pay an older sibling or sitter to go. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says OK for kids 7+ The target audience will absolutely adore it.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie has some mildly crude language. Lizzie's brother and his best friend conspire to blackmail Lizzie and to sell embarrassing pictures of her. Lizzie and her friends lie so that she can spend time with Paulo. There is a very sweet kiss between people who care very much for each other. Lizzie wears a navel-baring outfit.
  • Families can talk about whether people really do make their own luck, and how wishes can help. They should talk about the lies Lizzie, Kate, and Gordo told -- which are worse? Should Lizzie have been suspicious when Paulo wanted her to deceive the audience? How did Lizzie decide whom she could trust? Paulo says everyone has trouble feeling confident -- do you agree? Why do Miss Ungermeyer and Sergei speak of themselves in the third person? Do you agree that girls who act like they know everything are a "turn-off?"
What to watch for
  • violence false0 Violence and scariness: None
  • sex false0 Sexy stuff: Holding hands, sweet kiss
  • language false0 Language: None
  • consumerism false3 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false0 Drinking, drugs and smoking: None
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