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Review:
 Okay,
I admit it, last week I was probably wrong. My prediction that
“Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D” will win the Razzie® award for worst
picture may still come true--it WAS that bad, but this thing here
might be even worse. WAAAAAAAA!
Teenager Holly Hamilton (Hilary Duff) lives with her mom Jean
(Heather Locklear) and her insufferably cute baby sister Zoé in
Wichita, Kansas. Mom discovers that her latest boyfriend has been
sleeping around, so she packs up the kids and moves to Brooklyn
where they, for the 85th time-start afresh.
Sick of moving around so much, Holly decides to create a fictional
lover for Mom in order to keep her in one place at least one
semester. This is what is known as “idiot plotting.” Everyone has
to act like an idiot for the whole thing to work.
But of course, Holly's best friend's(Vanessa Lengies) uncle Ben
(Chris Noth) is NOT an idio, and neither is Holly's beau Adam (Ben
Feldman), so the whole thing comes crashing down in a heap well
before this junior chick flick is half over. I cringed, put my
notebook over my face and hid from this monstrosity of a film.
I do that sort of thing from time to time.
The acting is fine. Locklear has done much, much better stuff than
this, and I don't really know why she's here. I mean I can see why
Duff did, she's got a contract or something and she isn't old
enough to appear in slasher flicks like she should have by this
time,
Noth should be ashamed of himself.
This is unwatchable. Stay away.
Eric Lurio
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