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The Sweetest Thing (Rated Version)

The Sweetest Thing (Rated Version)

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Bad (as in bad bad not good bad) movie
Review: This is a not a good movie. Although there were some funny scenes such as the Ladies' room scene, the movie attempts to be funny by copying scenes from "There is Something About Mary. It is very awkward.

I like Cameron Diaz. She has evolved to an entertaining actress since I first saw her in the movie, "The Mask". I am sure she has a lot of script offers. It mystifies me why she accepted the script for this movie.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The Sweetest Thing
Review: This movie is strictly for fun.... not made to be serious or even believable. But if you watch it for this reason alone - fun - it is a good time. Parts of the movie can be embarrassing for some people, so think before you go.
All in all, my fiance and I enjoyed it very much and laughed a great deal.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A Wild Romp Through the Female Psyche
Review: No, "The Sweetest Thing" is not going to obtain any academy award nominations, or be awarded a big, gold Oscar... However, if you're looking for some light entertainment with lots of sexual innuendo, written by a woman entirely from the perspective of a woman, then this is the film for you.

A girlfriend and I went to see this film hoping for a fun "girlie" movie. That's exactly what we got: relationship drama, comments on the pressures women experience in society, toilet humor, hilarious [and somewhat explicit] sexual jokes, and a wild romp through the female psyche.

The last image I want to leave any readers with: Picture a woman's best erotic dream, add a cute Frenchman hiding his accent quite capably, a big fluffy feather bed, and a huge bowl of icecream with whip cream...

Now that's entertainment.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: sweetest
Review: this movie gots some good laughs...oh and MR. PAUL VARGA, SCARY MOVIE WAS RATED R.............................................................................................................................................

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the funniest movies...ever
Review: If you liked There's Something About Mary, you will love The Sweetest Thing. It has the same great elements but adds much more. It is very, very funny. Two thumbs up!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Funny movie to watch UNRATED
Review: I really liked this movie, it was so funny I liked the DVD good features. It's nice to watch movies unrated. It is gross I will agree on. Go rent this movie! You'll love it......

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Part sugar rush, part saccharine drag
Review: Now, I didn't see the "Today" show yesterday, but apparently during their segment about this movie, they claimed that they couldn't show a single clip from it on the air because it was too raunchily over-the-top for network TV. Well, maybe that's somewhat of an overstatement meant to build up hype and get people to see the movie in the first place. (After all, if it's just anothmindless sex comedy, then how else can they choose between this, "Sorority Boys" and "Van Wilder" at the box office -- not to mention the growing list of titles from Jason Biggs, Tara Reid and their various castmates on video?) But even still, there are a few key scenes in the movie where the R rating definitely rings true -- maybe not so much because unaccompanied teen-agers would be shocked to the core by what they saw, but because they'd be laughing so loud and so long after the fact that everybody else would tell them to shut up and the usher would ask them to leave. Hell, even some of the adults sounded like they were dangerously close to reaching that point.

If you're looking for complex characters, nuanced performances and a sophisticated portrayal of the relationship between men and women, then this movie won't even enter your radar. Indeed, "The Sweetest Thing" feels less like a movie and more like a sketch comedy show -- or, better yet, a live-action cartoon -- with some jokes that will probably inspire either quiet chuckles of embarrassment or flat-out guffaws of abandon (and maybe both at the same time). Perhaps that's not surprising, though, given that the script was written by none other than Nancy Pimental, who's done some of the voices on "South Park" and is even more famous for being the former co-hostess of "Win Ben Stein's Money." (She seemed to know just how to make Ben blush with all those veiled double-entendres about being his love slave, didn't she?)

The candor is one of the movie's major strengths, of course. Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate make their characters as campy and girly as possible. (Selma Blair does, too, maybe, but she's not in the movie as much to make it as clear.) It's obvious that they're really enjoying themselves -- partly because of the out-takes that run with the closing credits. And not to give out too much of a spoiler, but if you get through the "dry cleaning," "men's bathroom" and "medical emergency" scenes without even cracking a smile, then you may as well be dead.

But the problem is that nobody seems to have alerted Pimental to the fact that this kind of stuff is enough to make a movie for many, MANY people. Nope, she had to throw in that old, overtired "plot" about a woman being obsessed with a man, who's secretly obsessed with her although he's with another woman, and the lengths to which the two test fate to be together. The scenes in which this transpires ironically make a decent case for no clips to be shown from the movie -- not because they're obscene and full of bathroom/bedroom humor, though, but because they're predictable and full of cliches/contrivances. To make matters worse, these scenes come up at so many wrong moments (including the ending) that it seems like "The Sweetest Thing" isn't sure whether to be a gross-out movie or a chick flick. And maybe it is possible for people to like both those kinds of things, but somehow I doubt that they'd watch "American Pie 2" and "The Wedding Planner" in the same sitting -- let alone the same movie.

So, in the end, it's a mixed bag. But don't get me wrong; it is good for a few laughs along the way. And there seemed to be just about as many women as men laughing along when I saw it, so maybe that proves that this kind of thing can be appreciated by just about anybody -- genital persuasions be damned.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Chick flick turned guy flick
Review: Cameron Diaz plays Christina, a woman who's in denial of fearing commitment. Her room-mates Courtney and Jane, played by Christina Applegate and Selma Blair, are also in the same predicament.

They go to a dance club and Christina grabs into Peter, played by Thomas Jane. Sensing chemistry without getting the whole story, Christina and Courtney take a road trip to find him.

The commercial for this movie makes it look like a chick flick; but, in reality, it's more of a female skin fest, featuring Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate in very skimpy outfits.

I couldn't quite figure out why this movie is rated R. Scary Movie (the first one) had grosser humor in it than this and it was rated PG-13.

The storyline gets a bit erratic at times. The film editor seems to be a bit asleep at the wheel. It does have it's funny moments, including a... uhhh, tonsil piercing of sorts. ;)

Pre-movie warnings: VERY brief nudity (male butt cheeks), profanity, a truckload of innuendo, ladies' room groping, some off-key singing on Cameron's part, and the re-immergence of the acting career of Jason Bateman (don't ask me why).

A semi-decent matinee date movie; but, I wouldn't shell out the night time bucks on this one.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Why can't they make a decent romantic comedy?
Review: Another idiotic, so called "romantic comedy". Basically the story includes Cameron Diaz(who can't act if her life depended on it but still has fame and twenty million per movie) and Christina Applegate acting like fools in pursuit of some guy, convinced that he is the one. There are plenty of jokes and gags follow that supposed to be hilarious and aren't. Granted, some movies are stupid but funny. This one doesn't even come close-its simply dull, ridiculous story that doesn't evoke any emotion in you and you definitely don't give a damn about any of these characters

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Because of a song
Review: The main reason i loved the unrated verson was b/c of the song that they sing in the Chinese restarunt about a certain part of the male anatomy.....it's histerical...i laugh so hard everytime i see it....anyone who hasn't seen this movie has no clue as to what they are missing


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