Act your age, not your shoe size.

Every movie has a purpose. The producers set out with a goal, a reason for the movie's existence. Sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's a touching story, or a sappy love story so people can vicariously live through the screen, or perhaps entertaining action, or movies that really try to say something about life or humanity.

I think the fundamental failing of Uptown Girls is it didn't really have a clear goal. It wanted to be a comedy, and a fairy tale, and a touching story. But for me (and Jill, who I watched it with) it didn't really nail any of these, instead it just kind of flailed around. It had funny moments, but those took away from it's ability to be touching. And the fairy tale aspect kind of pulled the whole thing out of reality, making it both less funny and less touching.

It was well made. Dakota Fanning did an excellent job, and Brittany Murphy was solid as well. But it's hard to take something without a purpose and make it really entertaining, it just doesn't work that way.

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