Review of Uptown Girls

As you may have read numerous times, dear reader, Uptown Girls is not what most expect. I think Roger Ebert gave the best, most comprehensive review, and I would like to suggest his review be read as well as all others.

Uptown Girls (on DVD) was given to me as a gift. It took me a while until I watched it. In a way, I too, was a little disappointed. Although I enjoyed watching two very talented young actresses (Brittany Murphy and Dakota Fanning) perform with what would be only a half decent script with any other actresses. Murphy and Fanning really lend credibility to the roles, and a viewer may hardly realize these are just characters in a movie, not people in real life. I've always maintained that real life is far less exciting than movies, and it's difficult to portray realistic (in a way) characters.

Time passed, and I viewed Uptown Girls again. Every chuckle, every tear, every emotion came back as strong as it did the first time. Admittedly, the likelihood of Uptown Girls storyline actually happening in real life is remote, but this is why it's a movie, right? My point being, Uptown Girls is still an enjoyable movie, with two very talented actresses in the main roles.

I'll watch Uptown Girls many times in the future, it grew on me.