Hello fellow bloggers!

After hours of staring blankly at things in the library, in an attempt to figure out a plan for my paper, I treated myself to something only I enjoy. I went to see The Perfect Man at the $3 theater. Not that Hilary Duff has to do much to make me like her, but really, the movie was a lot better than I expected.

As the movie opens we see that Hilary Duff is using a computer, and she writes “Hello fellow bloggers,” and my heart skipped a beat. Not only is she cool, and adorable, but she blogs too! Please feel free to skip to the next paragraph now, if she makes you gag. Through out the movie she is adorable, she’s got a vintage feel to all her clothes, but not grungy vintage, much more the style I like. On two different days she wears an adorable red polka dot shirt, that I want very much. This is much preferable to the uber-young/fresh/trendy style that she sports in lizzie mcguire. She also has this fantastic red strapless dress. In all, her clothes seem very wearable, and not too fussy, the sort of thing I would actually buy. So now my fashion idol is a child.

Here’s the plot for those who don’t know. Even I didn’t know what it was about until I saw it. Mom, Heather Locklear, is desperate for a man. So she dates the first thing that comes along, it ends badly, and she moves away. Luckily, there are bakery jobs everywhere, and people in bakeries run a tight circle of social networking and she can flit from place to place, and find decent, affordable housing for a single mom who works in a bakery. It seems that while she likes to decorate cakes, and bake in her spare time, all she does is run the cash register at the stores. Maybe I should hire into a bakery, the uniforms are rather adorable.

And they move to Brooklyn where we meet bakery owner Caroline Rhea, who is even worse at accents than she is at stand up comedy. And as Hilary Duff goes to school we meet a slightly lankier and obnoxiously accented Vanessa Lengies (from American Dreams) who once again, plays second fiddle to a blond. There is also newcomer Ben Feldman, comic book geek/cool nerd, as Hilary’s love interest.

The story is a bit convoluted. The commercials lead us to believe that Heather Locklear is ignoring Chris Noth, who reprises his role as the perfect man, who is right under her nose. Not quite true. In an effort to cheer up mom, Hilary invents a man.. She does the fake secret admirer thing, writes love letters and such to her mom, and offers a picture of Noth (who plays Vanessa Lengies’ uncle) to keep mom hanging on. Blah, blah, blah, boring. But after hanging out with Noth, she grows to realize that he’s the perfect man for her mom, but they can never meet now because of the secret admirer plot. Finally she stops a wedding wearing torn jeans with a large pink bow, because he’s the best man, but she thought he was the groom…. But who cares about the adults

The love between Hilary and comic book guy Ben Feldman is fantastically pure of heart. Not only does he read comics, he draws and writes them. And he draws Hilary when they’re sitting in class. The first thing he does after he decides he likes her is invite her to a comic book convention (they’re not as geeky as you’d think, says he) and I’m charmed by his nerdy jew boy charms. I’ll go to a con with him any day. His age is not on IMDB, but it seems he’s attended college, so at least he’s legal. Not that anyone has any doubts about the end of a Hilary Duff movie, but of course they end up together. And I love it when the nerd boy gets the girl.

And just when we know the movie is ending, because the younger couple is together, we worry about Locklear and Noth. He is the perfect man! How will they meet? Will they even? (as if there are doubts in a Hilary Duff movie) and we see her, in her own cake shop, having finally decided she doesn’t NEED a man, finally settling in one place. And he comes in and asks her out. Oh no! at first she resists, Could she really be turning down Mr. Perfect?? No, of course not. He’ll pick her up at 8.

Take your favorite preteen, or parent who likes simple movies, this movie is squeaky clean and adorable! And so is Hilary Duff.

~~~~~ I just noticed, blogger has finally started counting posts again. Now I'm at 361.