The Perfect Man (2005) Critic Reviews

To be endured rather than enjoyed.Read the full review

It's a chick flick with a vengeance but even in its most sentimental moments, stars Hilary Duff and Heather Locklear make this feel-good-about-yourself movie feel ... well, good.Read the full review

For most part, The Perfect Man is too bland to merit anything more censorious than a stifled yawn.Read the full review

Where Locklear's careful, clipped delivery confirms that she's better suited for TV stardom than the movies, every time Duff opens her mouth, she confirms that her natural home is in magazines. Or voicing animated squirrels. Either one would work.Read the full review

The movie is a tortured marshmallow.Read the full review

A series of cutesy but flat-footed jokes leading up to a foregone romantic conclusion.Read the full review

The Perfect Man crawls hand over bloody hand up the stony face of this plot, while we in the audience do not laugh because it is not nice to laugh at those less fortunate than ourselves, and the people in this movie are less fortunate than the people in just about any other movie I can think of, simply because they are in it.Read the full review

There's just the matter of facing it: that The Perfect Man is just something slapped together -- by people who don't care, for an audience they figure will care even less.Read the full review

So imperfect that it may qualify as one of the summer's worst movies.Read the full review