Fridae

Goodbye Boys is, by anyone's standards, a watchable teen movie. On the other, Material Girls is precisely how a teen movie can go terribly wrong. By having two annoyingly self-absorbed, spoilt-beyond-belief girls at the centre of the movie, it is a wonder who can actually sit through this movie.

Haylie and Hilary Duff play two sisters who inherit their father's failing cosmetic company after he dies. But being so arrogant, shallow and immature, they make all the wrong professional decisions, and mess up their social ones as well. This is all supposed to be funny to audiences, but it is not.

Question to the movie's producers: Movie characters have to appeal to us on some level, right? So at exactly which level are these two horrid girls suppose to charm and delight us? Last we checked, the dizzy blonde flamboyant image of Paris Hilton hasn't exactly caught on like wildfire among girls around the world. Now compare this to smart, sassy, self-sufficient image of Avril Lavigne of a few years ago, and you'll understand why a film like this is bound to fail.

If anything, this title is an insult to the first Material Girl, Madonna, who taught women that it was more than okay to dream big dreams, even if it means having to use their feminine wiles and sexuality to make them come true.