Uptown Girls brings the viewer down

Uptown Girls

Director: Boaz Yakin

Cast: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Jesse Spencer, Heather Locklear

Cert: 12

We are expected to at least like the characters in films - even to find redeeming features in those behaving badly - but in this dismal and vastly unfunny "comedy" we are introduced to a couple of characters we would not, in real-life, give the time of day to.

The same should be considered for this worthless waste of film-stock.

Murphy plays the daughter of a recently-dead rock star. She is swindled out of her inheritance by a dodgy accountant and takes on the job of looking after one of the screen's most ghastly little girls ever (Fanning) in Manhattan.

We follow - well, actually by now we will be following one another out of the cinema - their eventual bonding, not that we give a hoot about what happens to them.

Star Rating: 0/5