Material Girls

Sisters Mary-Kate and … whoops. That is, sisters Hilary and Haylie Duff get to play pretend as a couple of privileged heirs to a cosmetic fortune who find their skinny asses out on the pavement after a nefarious plot to strip them of their rightful due. Naturally, this sets up the promise for lots of fish-out-of-water chucks as the clueless girls try to comprehend the real world as they skitter about trying to figure out the source of their predicament. The promise is delivered on, loaded with kewl product placement and easy-to-digest stereotypes so that its target audience won’t have to think about things too much and get distracted from IMing the friend sitting next to them. Unfortunately, the two characters are so completely loathsome that the “happy” ending is much more like biting on tinfoil in your popcorn. Nice object lesson here, if your objective is objects.