Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3618 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-11-26
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 98 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Get your Bratitude on! Bratz, the life-action film featuring the four sassy tween-queen doll characters, drives home the kid- and (parent-) friendly messages of being true to yourself, and friendship above all else. If some kickass fashion and retail therapy help deliver those pearls of wisdom, who's going to complain?

The action centres on our favorite BFFs, Jade, Cloe, Sasha, and Yasmin, starting high school together at Carry Nation High, and navigating through the rigid clique system that seems destined to force the girls apart. Along the way, there are fireworks (created by brainy Jade in chem class), food fights, and lots of cute guys to crush on. Ruling over all: Meredith Baxter Dimly, the Baby Doc Duvalier of high-school politics, somehow managing to be student-body president for at least three years running (maybe the fact that her pop is the principal has something to do with her anointment). Meredith, played to a scheming fare-thee-well by Chelsea Staub, is a formidable villain, but our girls realize nothing can come between true friends, if they just stick together. The climactic comeuppance scene--set at Carry Nation's annual talent show--will have Bratz fans clapping on their feet.

The film's soundtrack is upbeat and catchy, and features big names like the Black Eyed Peas and Ashlee Simpson, and the two show-stoppers sung by Staub as Meredith. And that's a Bratz-wrap! --A.T. Hurley

Synopsis
Director Sean McNamara (RAISE YOUR VOICE) tackles teenage cliques, the power of friendship, and the importance of individuality with characters based on the Bratz dolls. Sasha (Logan Browning), Jade (Janel Parrish), Yasmin (Nathalia Ramos), and Cloe (Skyler Shaye) are four free-spirited teens who are thick as thieves as they start their first year at Carry Nation High School. But soon, everything changes. Principal Dimly's (Jon Voight) daughter, Meredith Baxter Dimly (Chelsea Staub), rules the school with an iron fist, ensuring that all the students stay where they belong in their respective cliques. Although these four best friends try to buck the school's trend and remain close, their academic and extracurricular interests pull them in different directions until they realise that staying friends, being true to themselves, and following their dreams are more important than anything else.
This candy-coloured high school world is clearly the stuff of fantasy. Teenage fashion hasn't been this funky and fabulous since CLUELESS. And what would a movie about teenage girls be without cute, sensitive, teenage boys like Dylan (Ian Nelson), Cameron (Stephen Lunsford), and Dexter (Chet Hanks), not to mention a spectacular MTV-style Super Sweet Sixteen party and some show-stopping musical numbers? Amidst the fun and fluff, BRATZ manages to convey some important messages about self-esteem, diversity, and loyalty. Staub is deliciously evil as the narcissistic student body president who is determined to keep the Bratz in their place and maintain her empire. Veteran actor Jon Voight's dim-witted Dimly is wrapped around his daughter's finger. Lainie Kazan plays Yasmin's grandmother, and Kadeem Hardison (Dwayne Wayne from A DIFFERENT WORLD) is Sasha's father.

Customer Reviews

good film and bonus features
As someone who left school a long,long time ago I wasn't expecting to like Bratz much but I was pleasantly surprised.The story is basically about the importance of friendship and of hanging onto it whatever pressures you come under in life.A humorous film,visually very colourful - about as colourful as I've seen - and the singing and music were good as well.Lots of interesting bonus features too.

Cool Movie For Bratz Fans!
Bratz: The Movie was the best ever movie I watched in my life! You learn about friendship and standing up to a bully. Bratz fans would SO love this movie!

Quite Bratz-tastic!
Firstly, as the four Bratz girls (right) wake up at the start of the film, no-one is ever that perky in the morning. Especially on the first day of a new school term at Carry Nation High School, but these girls' idea of fun is to dress trendy and show everyone that they're cool, and who out of their friends can't fail to be impressed by wardrobes the size of Narnia, which even then have hidden compartments...

Their nemesis is the evil Meredith (Chelsea Staub, below-right, relishing in this role) who is in a clique of her own as the school's student body president but has the lunchtime area broken down into 48 separate seating plans for each clique of goths, skaters, disco dorks, gangstas, wannabe gangstas, etc. She is the daughter of Principal Dimly (Jon Voight, who's rather sleepwalking through his performance), has a big-haired boyfriend called Cameron who looks like Any Joseph Will Do's Lee Mead, and her two best friends are Avery (Anneliese van der Pol) and Quinn (Malese Jow) to whom she talks down at every chance. She's so full of herself from dawn until dusk and has a small dog that fits in her handbag called Paris.

Of the four girls playing the main characters, the actresses have similarly odd names. There's Jade (Janel Parrish) who's into science and fashion, Sasha (Logan Browning) is the cheerleader, Cloe (Skyler Shaye) is a bit of a clutz and plays women's football and, finally, Yasmin (Nathalia Ramos) is the main singer of the four, and whose character seems a bit too much of a sickly sweet all-American girl. Yasmin fancies Dylan, a school jock who is deaf but who doesn't sound deaf because he can speak perfect English. He also has hidden musical talents as he can play the piano and spins discs, but thinks he hasn't got a chance of being into music due to his disability. Hmm... hasn't he heard of Beethoven?

The girls want to take over and rule the talent contest, but what may harm their friendship is that their new curriculum activities take them away from being together and split them off into their own groups.

Two years later... we meet up with them and their differences are made more apparent with a food fight in the school dining area, but you know things will be back to normal before long, and as Yasmin becomes the singer out of the quartet, the others form her backing group and, thus, are born - Bratz, and they're going in for the talent show, the prize for which is a college scholarship, which they'll give to Cloe who is seemingly the only one of the four who seemingly comes from a poorhouse.

There's a nice quote when it comes to shopping, the origins of which will go over the heads of this film's intended audience, as Sasha comes out with, "I love the smell of retail in the morning."

Overall, in Bratz: The Movie, there's nothing new here. It's mostly the kind of thing that's drummed out for every generation, but it's done well for the generation who can't live without their iPhones and MySpace, so they'll greatly enjoy it, and it will also pass a reasonable 90 minutes or so for the adults that end up sitting through it as well.

For a longer review with details of the extras, check out the full review on the DVDfever website.