This has been a bad year for movies starring teen queens, with Amanda Bynes' "She's the Man" and Lindsay Lohan's "Just
My Luck" having already desecrated cinemas with their senseless plots and inane comedy antics. And now Hilary and Haylie Duff's "Material Girls" has arrived to make the trifecta complete. If I were a teenage girl, I would be insulted to know that Hollywood thinks I will watch any piece of trash, no matter how lame, ill-conceived or sloppy, just because it stars Hilary and Haylie Duff. Being more than twice the age and the opposite gender of the 15-year-old girls at whom the film is aimed, I can only express puzzlement over its utter unfamiliarity with the concept of "funny," and hope that the 15-year-old girls WON'T watch it, or that if they do they won't enjoy it. Haylie and Hilary play Ava and Tanzie Marchetta, socialite heiresses to a cosmetics company launched by their father, recently deceased. (Their mother's absence is explained in a couple lines two-thirds of the way into the movie.) They are spoofs of the Paris Hilton type of celebutante, making red-carpet appearances and strolling unchecked into swanky nightclubs as cameras flash all around them.
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