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The Sweetest Thing (Rated Version)

The Sweetest Thing (Rated Version)

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Hilarious!!
Review: From the beginning you get a glimpse of what the movie is going to be like. I really liked how truthful the female characters are portrayed in this movie. I really liked how they portrayed the dating and club scence, it is so honest of how it is out there. I thought it was so funny and have to admit in the unrated version with two particular scences one of them being a musical number and the other with Selma Blair being literally stuck in a comprimising position was a little too silly but somehow works when the whole movie is seen throughout. It's the humor and unpredictable moments and great chemistry among the three actresses Cameron, Christina and Selma that make this movie work. I liked that they showed their main characters as sexy, smart, beautiful but flawed all at the same time. Towards the ending is a truth in what Christina's character has to say about getting tired of the dating sense when all your really looking for is a connection with someone special. Kudos to especially Cameron and Christina in their hilarious performances and not being afraid to be silly and blunt.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: hilarious
Review: I love this movie. The comedic performances were outstanding; cameron diaz is always great, and I think jason bateman tends to be underappreciated in a lot of his roles. look at arrested development. he's brilliant.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I just wasted 90 minutes of my life on this 'movie'!!
Review: Do not repeat my mistake and waste your time unless, of course, you like stupid jokes and dirty humor. The only unusual quality in this movie that differs it from similar movies is that it has women as main characters.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Would Give Zero Stars if Possible
Review: I watched this movie last night on HBO and was looking forward to it since it takes place in San Francisco. I had read the poor reviews when it came out in theaters but figured there must be something redeeming about it given its setting. I was so wrong! How this movie ever got made it beyond me, particularly since its stars are well-known. No, I'm not a prude. This movie was just plain stupid. I'll admit I turned it off about halfway (embarrassed that I even made it that far). And all I could think is that hundreds of people must have been involved in the production of this thing. Didn't someone along the way ever say, "Hey, wait a minute, this is really, really horrible"?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The secret life of woman
Review: I LOVE THIS MOVIE. The best thing about it is that it's true true true. Anyone who spend every weekend clubbing has to know how true this movie is. The games we have to play. The built in support we become to each other. This movie is basiclly the up and downs of dating or the lack their of in your 20's and the point you get when you want to stop playing the "game" The only question is how do you stop playing the game and not get burned? This movie is the funniest road trip to that answer.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hilarious!!
Review: This movie is worth every penny. I have watched it over 15 times and I have only owned it for 3 weeks. Christina Applegate, Cameron Diaz, and Selma Blair are hilarious is the film. I think its on of the all time best romantic comedies, especially if your a teen.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Consistently funny, but too brief
Review: There's something about Cameron Diaz. This is the 2nd entry in an unofficial trilogy of critic-proof comedies that the lovely thespian with the elastic smile stars in and unabashedly reveals herself to be an unnaturally uninhibited pop actress. In the first Charlie's Angels movie, she shaked her booty to the posterior anthem, "Baby Got Back," even though her butt isn't exactly of the same proportions that Sir-Mix-A-Lot is speaking of. And of all places, the scene is set at Soul Train, which is filled with the sort of curvaceous babes (mostly Black) that SMAL is madly in love with. And this is exactly what I love about Diaz. She is willing to poke fun at her lack their of (and probably of other Hollywood actress' thinner lower torsos) and look totally, genuinely ecstatic in the process; you never, ever, get the feeling that Diaz is doing anything against her will.

While Diaz does nothing here that's quite as show stopping as that classic moment, there is - wait a minute, actually, there is this one scene. Diaz, along with Christina Applegate and Selma Blair, perform a raunchy, wonderfully spontaneous (nearly all of the comical set-pieces are unpredictable) mini musical inside of a busy restaurant that you can only see if you view the Unrated version. This is the sort of scene one would most certainly find in a musical version of Sex and the City, which this film sort of resembles (minus the three-dimensional characterizations, pathos, and the occasionally annoying narration). Or you could think of TST as the Farrelly Brothers' version of SAC (this film sort of one-ups Ben Stiller's zipper accident).

While the movie's cast is mostly filled with women (beautiful women), there's not much of anything about it that men might find too girlish to bare. Unlike your standard Julia Roberts chick-flick, the movie mostly poses a cynical attitude towards the idea of monogamous relationships (although it doesn't totally doubt the possibility of its existence; the script's pessimistic female characters are only thinking like inconsiderate, self-centered men as a last resort anyway). There's more skin bearing from the women than from the men, too. And the jokes are frank enough to keep the attention of teenage boys whenever the female cast aren't drop dead gorgeous in their skimpies. Come to think of it, TST actually resembles the Farrelly Brothers' Dumb and Dumber (which the film references in a brief montage), as two smarter girlfriends dovetail together on a road trip to reunite with a guy.

I have shamelessly seen this film probably three times, which is equal to the number of times that I viewed Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle in the theater. And I am aware of this film's poor critical reception. Personally, the movie's only major flaw is that it's too short. So short that I wouldn't recommend you paying full price to see it in a theater (if it were still in theaters). I'd advise you to rent it, plus seasonal episodes of Sex and the City and a couple of Farrelly Brothers movies. While one might argue that you should just stick with the latter, I'd advise viewing this harmless, good-natured escapist movie kind of wholeheartedly.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: An entertaining movie, but at what cost to society
Review: This is not a regular date movie. It has a lot of bathroom humor, making it very inappropriate for younger children to view.

The 3 women play the roles of frisky women in their late 20's, but they act like silly 15 year-old girls. They too often get themselves in outrageous sexually situations. Certain scenes will make you cover your eyes and say, "Did they really have to put that in the movie". Like a scene where a man flasher his thing in front of Carmen Diaz's face.

When people in other countries see this movie, I hope they don't make the assumption that ALL women in America behave as the ones in this movie.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Excellent Hip Shaking Dance Music
Review: Does anybody recognize any of the songs that were played during the dance club scenes?

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Deserves an academy award - dumbest jokes category
Review: This film has a scene where a woman brings a pair pants with dried semen on them into the dry cleaner. The man sees the stain and asks what it is. The woman is too embarrassed to tell, so he licks the pant stain to find out. Just then a bunch of kids walk in and then a priest. Boy is that funny or what?


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