It’s Friday! Let’s go see Bratz: The Movie.

"There's so many other bad influences out there," says Logan Browning, one of the film's four teenage starlets, who plays Sasha. "My dream in life is to impact the world in some way that someone can relate to me, and this movie is perfect. Little girls are going to look up to us and just have a positive outlook on life now."

"The moms love it," says Nathalia Ramos, who plays Yasmin. "There's this one line where Cloe goes, 'My mom is my hero,' and all the moms in the audience just go, 'Awww.' It's empowerment for girls and it's empowerment for mothers, too."

The Washington Post sits down with these radical feminists and asks them “what their characters represent.”

Skyler: "Self-empowering, being true to yourself."

Nathalia: "The value of friendship."

Janel and Logan, almost in unison: "Yes, friendship!"

"This is a great way to start out [your acting career]," says Logan. "It's really good to start out young and fresh and innocent."

Sighs The AV Club, “This is why the terrorists hate us.”

Luckily, Becoming Jane is also out today!

The AV Club says...

Hathaway acquits herself reasonably well under the circumstances, but her Austen has been conceived as a Disney heroine, a headstrong, frisky beauty who seems independent, but melts at a touch.

And Salon calls it a...

...weird effort to remake Austen's life -- about which we actually know very little -- into a genteel, tasteful Harlequin romance. Was Austen really a smarter, feistier Carrie Bradshaw in more sensible shoes, longing for love even as she failed to hang onto it? Becoming Jane would have been more honest if it had been called No Sex in the Country.

Meanwhile, an ad for the movie that’s kicking around the interweb includes what is surely the most important critical response:

Guys, take her to see this one. She’ll love you for it. – Jeffrey Lyons

(Actually, the ad reads “take her to this see one,” the mild dyslexia rendering it only slightly less coherent.)

Well, who reallywants to see a girl-centric movie anyway? There’s Hot Rod, with Andy Samburg. We like him.

Rod is the latest version of what is fast becoming a cliché: the guy who thinks he’s cool but is actually, objectively a loser. You are meant to laugh knowingly at the discrepancy between his self-image and the reality he cluelessly inhabits, and then, to excuse the cruelty latent in this laughter, to sympathize with the sincerity and nobility of his dreams and root for their fulfillment.

…Rod also has a crush on his next-door neighbor, Denise (Isla Fisher), who has a jerky rich boyfriend (Will Arnett) and an endlessly sweet disposition. Ms. Fisher, an actress who showed herself to be a nimble comic performer in Wedding Crashers, is not allowed to be funny in this infantile comic universe. Funny is apparently a guy thing.

At least we have this to look forward to:

Story revolves around a gorgeous transfer student who clings to her virginity and gets all the promiscuous girls in school to abstain from sex; in response, the popular guys ask the school stud to try to bed the poster girl and ending her "virginity rocks" campaign.

Pic will be released as "Maxim's Virginity Rocks," and it's the third that has been set up with a division of the mag designed for randy lads.

Amelie Gillette explains.