Just kidding. Good review Mass.

Second Best Quote: "This is why the terrorists hate us".

Now all we need is Dickz, how to be a 8-10 year old fratboy, alcoholic, womanbeater....I can't wait! Maybe they can get Mel G. for a father role?

And it's unsanitary.

which apart from 8-12 year old girls and soon to be featured on To Catch a Predator:Bratz edition are they only ones seeing this movie

dang that's what Chris Hansan should do his next TCAP, eliminate PJ totally and just catch single guys coming out of the movie.

I'm very easy going when it comes to adapting this or that to film. I figure no matter how crap it seems to me I'm sure there are fans out there, and I'm glad for them (ex. anything done by Uwe Boll). But this movie just makes me sad. Sad for any parent who has a child that wants to see this. Sad that any child would want to see this. This movie is nothing more than a cash-grab; a way to make money off children. Hey Avi, just because it's easy to take candy from a baby doesn't mean you should.

Personally, I'm glad. If I see one more emo 15 year old in a "Sex Pistols" or "Cramps" shirt, I'm going to rip it right off them. They can keep their damned hands off that. Punk was MY generation. Where I came from, you had to EARN the colored laces on your Doc Martens.

If you read a little into it, I'm PRETTY SURE I'm making fun of the lot of you for being so out of touch and shamefully hypocritical for having a problem with these "youngin' upstarts today".

You Bratz haters are just mad "the gays" took over your beloved Barbie.

And Uglymood, re-read most of your first sentence.

"are overtly sexualized characters whose existence revolves around being "fashionable," which apparently involves massive collagen injections."

You could be talking about "Barbie" there. At least you're admitting that your problem is merely that you don't approve. The next step is admitting that you don't have the slightest idea what girls are interested in.

I think what I am trying to say is: It doesn't matter what your toys look like, but how you *PLAY* with them.

Avi Arad is dangerous and MUST be stopped.

Unlike most here my view isn't as black and white as the bunch of simpletons that dominate the boards with their "I like this therefore THAT is shit" manifestos. Anna, you're also being disingenuous in the extreme if you don't think Barbie's many respectable and spotlessly above-board, morally correct professions are anything more than a two-pronged marketing attack. One to sate the previously outraged parents (though how realistic is that modern bodyshape anyway?) for something the girls are going to ask for anyway and two as the perfect excuse to sell tons MORE merchandise. O.K. Bratz have a blinged-out 'pimpmobile' but Barbie is SO much better because she's put the old cars behind her and now kids can aspire to the new VW beetle instead? Talk about splitting fucking hairs! Obviously going the yuppie/preppie route is not materialistic in the LEAST! It's still called the Barbie ISLE, right? Or did Mattel come clean and admit that you don't NEED to have an outfit or special Barbie for all of her acheivements and can use your fertile young imagination instead. BTW Barbie outblinged and outfashioned Bratz first with the outrageously over the top collectors' stuff. Bob Mackie for fuck's sake! Did the modern and morally unassailable Barbie stand her ground when Bratz came along and outsold her into the ground? No, Mattel tried to save face with parents but still brought out MyScene with their preppie-meets-Finlandia Vodka automaton designs and diminished Barbie's part enormously and on purpose, without admitting to kids they were still actually selling them Barbie (maybe that one should have been called 'stealth Barbie'). It's all about money in the end.

As for Bratz they're as morally reprehensible marketingwise as Barbie but more shallow/honest in the tactics. Here's a secret though. Kids don't want to be educated ALL the time. Parents forget the value of pure PLAY 'cause they're so busy (especially when the kids are under 5) being ultimate parents. The link here is that little girls still, in this supposedly enlightened age, want to play dress up in pink, fluffy or sparkly things (or preferably all 3 at once). They still want to get around in Mummy's best heels. They still like ponies and other supposedly prehistoric sexist clichés. Bratz caters exactly to that in the most blatant overindulgent way possible. Am I saying that's good? Of course not. But the proof is there - girls turned away from Barbie because sure she was what every Girl's Mum was comfortable with, but not FUN any longer. I think it's hilarious that Anna's niece (who I'm sure is precocious in the true sense of the word) said what could easily have come from a Bratz show (or Clueless, irony of ironies). It didn't occur to you at all Anna? No of course your niece is an infallible little wunderkind who paints incredible abstract art (there's that sarcasm again). Funny that you were 'relieved'. I would have been ALARMED as it couldn't sound much MORE like a soundbite!

You people have bloody short memories, especially considering Posh Spice is in our faces more than ever at the moment! My God, do any of you recall how the Spice Girls dressed, performed or the lyrics to the hit that made them famous? Little girls all over the world sang those obscene words of promiscuity completely oblivious (as were the hordes of supposedly vigilant mothers) to their meaning, they just liked the catchy melody. Millions of little girls wanted to dress up in those slutty outfits (hey parents! Sporty is your get out of jail free card - but watch out, she could be a lesbian!), but to them it was glamour and boldly coloured cartoonishness. Well what do you know, sounds an awful lot like Bratz (though even Bratz don't make kids sing what they really really want is they wanna uhng ung ungh!), except that the dolls came last.

Uglymood, I'm just making a long-winded point here and playing Devil's advocate to your gleaming myopia. Were there millions of girls that DIDN'T fall for all that crap? Of course. hat still doesn't discount the millions that did or the ones that did WITHOUT becoming scarred for life. Have some faith in girls' barometre for taking what they want out of something without being coddled and secondguessed. It's sort of sad to hear you use the world's oldest subjective reasoning that YOU know about little girls because YOU have one, therefore drawing the broadest generalisation yet. I was going to include you bringing your total to two but it doesn't sound like you were actually given the chance to be one, considering how uptight you are (and by extension are passing that on too). It doesn't have to be all or nothing. How many times have you seen parents but the sensible luadable educational toy? Sometimes, just sometimes the kid would rather play with anything else, even the bloody box. And watch out in 5 years time or even less when you get the urge to have them ban offensive material on the net, intead of monitoring her computer use yourself. I was going to ask if your daughter's an only child but that would be the sort of rash judgement we're trying to get away from. ;)

Anna, don't forget Kingsley in Thunderbirds. If you can survive that you must have something going for you (I don't believe the Anthony Edwards in this and Zodiac are the same guy).

I do agree with you both on one thing though - the film version of Bratz WILL set feminism back 50 years. Avi Arad said he made it for his daughters! Hopefully they'll lynch him and equilibrium will be restored.

What do you two think of Hi-5 (American or Australian) just out of interest?

Rbatty - "when did pedophilia become a marketing angle?" - when Britney Spears' career was launched with a song where she dressed like a sexy SCHOOLGIRL and implored them to hit her, one more time. Funny how the implications of that clip and those lyrics slipped under the radar of middle America.

Sorry all for the massive rant. Ignore at your leisure.

It's great to hear you're not against anything having a right to exist, I guess I just see Bratz as filling the hole old (50s to 70s) Barbie left, and don't think it's as insidious as you do precicely because of the blatancy. The film however...

Oh as for the all chrome & diamonds merc? It WAS Myscene after all, called "My bling bling", which I guess evens up the score a bit more! And no, I didn't buy it for the kids, it was for reference. Honest! Reflections distorting around compound curves are insanely hard to draw out of your head. In the interests of full disclosure, my girls have 1 Bratz doll each, but in my defence it's because they are identical twins and loved to see the dolls were "like them" (in opposition to wanting to BE LIKE the dolls), so at least the tail wasn't wagging the dog there, and they're actually not all made-up like clowns. Their favourite toys are still a bedraggled teddy and a blankey though.