Saturday, August 4, 2007

Things that are True

The Best Quotes from reviews of the film Bratz


It would be hard to find another film that so nakedly, unambiguously celebrates the cancers of contemporary culture, from rampant consumerism to new-technology mania to the tarting-up of teen girls to bubblegum pop to My Super Sweet 16. Finally, a movie it'd almost be disrespectful not to text your BFFs during. (Suggested message: "OMG this movie iz da bomb. LOL! Az if!!!") This is why the terrorists hate us.

To the Bratz, individualism is only cool as long as it doesn’t require unfashionable pants.

Instead, the movie’s veneer of inclusion — the hottest guy in school is also deaf — fails to hide some egregious racial stereotyping (the Latina Brat inexplicably shares her home with a mariachi band) and a script that wants to have it both ways. It takes a certain amount of genius to stage a derisive spoof of MTV’s “My Super Sweet 16” while enthusiastically aping the very materialism it promotes.

7 comments:

MA17 said...

I didn't realize that Jon Voight was in this, which is probably bad enough, but immediately following Transformers? Good god man! Learn to say no!

Mike Lewis said...

oh it was awful.

i cant even begin to articulate my own feelings about the film

_J_ said...

You haven't seen it and you don't have my superpower.

Mike Lewis said...

i have seen it because i hate myself

_J_ said...

WHY THE FUCK WASN'T FINAL COUNTDOWN ON 80S EDITION?!

Caleb said...

"This is why the terrorists hate us."

I love this comment. love.

_J_ said...

The terrorists just want to be able to produce shitty, shitty movies about shitty, shitty things.

And, really, the terrorists hate us because they literally interprate a stupid part of their stupid holy book. It has nothing to do with shitty movies.

Also, the terrorists are all homosexuals who really, really want to fuck one another in their bearded assholes.