Uptown Girls

Saucereyed and hedgehog-haired, Brittany Murphy thinks, wrongly, that she is adorably kooky as the party girl.

A lame, predictable comedy.

Though I found Mr. Yakin's direction unexpectedly imaginative, and the script often incongruously subtle, I couldn't get into the spirit of all the whimsy, the reason being the surprising lack of charm in the two leads.

Can two over-pampered but fundamentally lonely persons of the blonde female persuasion bond meaningfully with each other while shopping?

Although [Brittany] Murphy and [Dakota] Fanning click, the rest of the movie doesn't click with them and actually gets in the way of this delightful pairing.

Fanning practically dares the audience to throw sharp objects at the screen with her thoroughly obnoxious performance.

Brought down with emotional manipulation, melodrama, and just a bi-polar mood.

The movie is a fairy tale, after all -- one that ... eight-year-olds probably will adore, while the rest of us roll our eyes and count down the minutes until it's over.