The Perfect Man opens today… to responses like these:
“The Perfect Man takes its idiotic plot and uses it as the excuse for scenes of awesome stupidity.” – Roger Ebert
“…sticky, straight-to-video caliber.” – Lou Lumenick
“…nondescript piffle.” – Jami Bernard
“If you are planning on seeing the new Hilary Duff comedy over Father’s Day weekend, show Dad how much you care. Leave him home.” – Jan Stuart
“Maudlin love story about awful people.” – Angela Baldassarre
“You’ll most likely want to throw up and call it a night after swallowing this big ball of cotton candy.” – Kit Bowen
“Who would’ve thought…that the certifiably awful/unaccountably popular Hilary Duff was daring enough to make a movie about having a lesbian relationship with her mother?” – Peter Canavese
“Probably the only reason the Department of Children’s Services hasn’t come after her is because they can’t find her.” – Sarah Chauncey
“The faux lover angle isn’t exactly new but when a daughter is more or less trying to woo her mother, it’s not original, just weirdly creepy if not a tad incestual.” -Jeffrey Lyles
“Duff comes across as so self-absorbed that her trademark perkiness bleeds into selfishness.” – Donald Munro
“This is a monumentally bad film, the kind that only comes along once in, oh, I don’t know… Three years? Five?” – Eugene Novikov
“The movie doesn’t even seem to know how disturbing, at its heart, its subject matter is, so that it can at least have fun with it.” – Michael O’Sullivan
“Seriously, the perfect man would call social services.” – Carina Chocano, LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Dear Hilary… I can’t see you or your movies anymore.” – Sean O’Connell