Which would be ironic in and of itself

I know that I’m not the best person to review “The Perfect Man.” Besides being far too old and the wrong sex, I no longer have a teenage girl in my house. Yet the truth is, that last reason is carries probably the least weight. Even at her most arch “Annie” age, my daughter would probably have gagged over this bit of teen fluff

Here’s the skinny: Hilary Duff plays a teen who, tired of her mother ( Heather Locklear ) moving them around the country in her search for a mate, concocts a fictional perfect man. Trouble arises when mom wants to meet the real guy (who is based on a character played by Chris Noth ). And just that fast, we encounter one ridiculous plotline after the next.

It’s hard to imagine a movie that could possibly send so many wrong messages to young women – that they need a man to feel complete, that it’s OK to ruin your children’s lives in an attempt to ward off your own emotional demons, that lying (and worse) to get what you want is preferable to standing up for what you believe, that endings eventually will come along for everyone that make “Cinderella” look like “Six Feet Under.”

But, then, the title here isn’t “The Perfect Movie.” That, at least, would indicate that the filmmakers understood irony .