Sadly Over-hyped

one of my absolute favorites!

It is a performances centric movie

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I don't know why the critics are so tense and frequent over this movie. Most of people find it ridiculous to be moving from town to town just because you got your heart broken, I don't believe so. I think that the idea was perfect as a trigger to create the main issue "the unstable life of this family and the need of creating some settlement in their life". It's true that's kinda unreasonable but some issues and pressure can make this possible in real life too. I'm not a big fan of Hilary Duff but I liked every scene with the boy who had a crush on her. I find it enjoyable to watch and every attempt to get her mom convinced and under the charm of the perfect man. It's was simply hilarious and cozy to watch. But the most thing that I liked in this movie is the relationship between the main characters, the mom and the two daughters it's just perfect and the big change over the mom's personality I shared every happy moment with them and every sad one too. This movie is gonna stay an inspirational deep movie that fills your heart with life and passion.

Holly Hamilton (Hilary Duff) keeps having to move every time her mother (Heather Locklear) breaks up with her jerk boyfriends. Now they're in Brooklyn. Holly decides to give her mother a secret admirer to cheer her up and maybe keep her in town. When buffoon Lenny (Mike O'Malley) starts dating her mother, she catfish her mother to break them up. Only it gets more and more complicated with her new friend's uncle Ben (Chris Noth).This is meant to be cute, but Holly is just too annoyingly selfish. This scheme is not the least bit adorable. It doesn't justify anything she does. She literally is about to break up a wedding for no good reason. It is possibly the least romantic movie around. Hilary Duff is so cutesy bratty. Even if the movie could play this seriously, it had no shot of being good.

I have watched this movie a few times , I thought it wasn't gonna be that good but it is , its so romantic and i love the storyline. All the characters are great too. The best part of the story line is that holly is trying to make her mum happy by being the perfect man , little does she know that the guy shes getting the info from IS the perfect man and there's a person in her school who is HER perfect man.The review before this is stupid this is a great movie , WATCH IT !This movie is kind of a chick flick though , the scene were holy sets off the sprinklers in the restaurant is amazing and the point that yeah she kept moving but now she's in a place that she loves !!! XD

Hilary Duff has never made a movie on her own that I've liked. "A Cinderella Story" was mediocre at best and "Raise Your Voice" had to be on the worst films of 2004. "The Perfect Man" is another Duff vehicle that received horrid reviews, which is funny because I actually thought it was sort of decent. It is the type of movie that is bland and indistinguishable, yes, but also decently so. The storyline zips along with enough plausibility and chuckles for you to feel like the rental fee was worth it. Unlike "A Cinderella Story" and "Raise Your Voice," Duff is not a victim this time, which was refreshing. In fact, she's can be narcissistic and cruel. Heather Locklear plays her distressed mom, and I haven't seen any of her other films but I thought she was believable enough. Ben Feldman is affable as Duff's love interest and Chris Noth is quite good as a charming restraunteer. Speaking of Noth, a good way to sum up "The Perfect Man" is that it plays out a more extended version of a Sex and the City episode, only without the risqué humor or racy subject matter, which makes it a good fit for moms and their daughters. Not a great film, but it follows its dubious formula well enough for me to recommend it to some.GRADE: B