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The Sweetest Thing (Rated Version)

The Sweetest Thing (Rated Version)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Sick, dirty, nasty girl humor - - - So much fun.
Review: I noticed this is a "love it" or "hate it" movie. I so enjoyed this comedy/romance. I wouldn't call it a typical girl flick with gushing romance, though. Its a nasty, dirty and bad girl type comedy with tendency for the taboo...proper women don't say penis, after all, let alone sing it in a chinese restaurant.

My husband and I laughed throughout this movie. If you are uptight about watching it, have a glass of wine and loosen up. This is a fun, so-not-proper comedic ride.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Surprise
Review: Had never heard of this movie, but picked it up at BB while looking for light movies, and this one delivered bigtime! My wife and I loved it! We had just come home from seeing "Chicago" at the local multiplex, and this was a perfect counterbalance. I don't need to go over the plot details, as these have been covered elsewhere, but would like to just repeat all the accolades about this being a fun movie.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Disgustingly Funny
Review: A Great Comedy That Not Only Made Me Laufgh But Made Me Want To Keep Watching. It's The Story Of This Girl That Meets The Guy She Thinks Is The Love Of Her Life. Except She Only Met Him For Like Ten Min. Good Movie With Some Great Fun For Comedy. Good Adult Humor.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: NEVER Follow the Yellow Brick Road !!!
Review: Ladies, it's ok to cut loose and be real ! That said, some of us guys have always wondered what really does go on in the women's restroom...This comedy was refreshing to see what I suspected all along...Leave a room filled with women at a club or party and see what outlandish jokes, shenanigans, and trouble they get into ! I was once told by a great aunt that a group of women can make a man blush and run out of the room !...

The humorous performances by Christina Applegate, Cameron Diaz, Selma Blair, and the neurotic Parker Posey created awesome comedic chemistry and timing...

The simple plot is about the lives of 3 young hot ladies in their late 20's, early 30's, who live in San Francisco as best friends and roommates and are having fun with life in general. But, they also encounter the ups and downs of relationships and begin to question if they are tired of playing "the game" referring to the dating scene as opposed to finding their Mr. Rights...Such a quest leads one of the girls to test her own faith and take that leap ! What happens in between, from the bizarre "yellow brick road" scene in a men's bathroom to a painful piercing incident, the sequences had me rolling ! Even the movie musical montage scenes are some of the funniest I have seen in years for any comedy...

So, guys, this is not, I repeat, a feminist male bashing film, it is something I think we all need to see to get a clue as to what our girlfriends and wives do when they let loose with their buddies ! Of course this film is not making a social statement that ALL women behave like this !!!...

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Disappointing, when it could have been fun
Review: Big names, but strictly a film for teenage boys to snigger at. It's rated 18 - anyone older than that will be disappointed.

I think this movie must have been intended as an 'American Pie' with women outside their teens. You know, raunchy, fun, yet with the grace of knowing what it is and laughing at itself and the world. Whatever, I am stunned that Cameron Diaz and Selma Blair would put their names to this tacky piece of film that is an excuse for pretty women to shake their booty and talk (and sing!) about male anatomy. Intelligent this is not. Christina Applegate's defining TV character Kelly might have written, produced and starred in this it is so mindless and immature. But here Applegate is the 'mature' one - a foil to Diaz's ditzy character.

Perhaps this film is supposed to be striking a blow for feminism - you know, girls can be shallow and only after one thing too. That message is clear in the first five minutes of the film - I'm only sorry I spent the next 82 minutes of my life watching it to see if maybe there was something more. There wasn't.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: MOVIE IS THE STINKIEST THING! MAJOR DISSPOINTMENT!
Review: I knew this was a "silly movie" and certainly not an intellectual film, but "Dumb & Dumber" looks like an Academy Award winner next to this mess! This Stinks! PHEW! The sloppiness and unnecessary vulgar humor are embarrassing to watch and not worth the price of a rental. It's a shame really because all three of the actresses are fine, and with a decent script this could have at least been mediocre. I lost all respect for the movie, however, when the three women and others starting singing about something being "too big to put in here." Wow, what a B-A-D M-O-V-I-E !!!! B-E-W-A-R-E !!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Sweetest Thing to hit my DVD player.
Review: I wasn't sure how I would feel about this movie, but I'm a fan of Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate and Selma Blair and the three of them together was ABSOLUATLY the sweetest thing and the MOST fun time I've had. Every scene offered something that made you smile and/or laugh your ... off. If you are into romance, comedy, then I suggest you check out The Sweetest Thing!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Good actors does not equal good movie
Review: I like Cameron Diaz. She's pretty funny, and she has been in a lot of movies that I like. Same with Selma Blair and Christina Applegate. Do not be misled. This is not a gender issue - it is an equal-opportunity flop. I would agree with most of the other critics that say this is the worst movie ever. It's in my top ten worst ones at least. So what was so bad? The script, the predictable plot, the stereotypical characters - you name it. Buy something else! Anything else!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Gross Jokes, But Has its Funny Moments
Review: Given that my daughter was the one asking me to watch this movie, I knew immediately that: (1) it was going to be a girl movie, because that's all she ever asks us to watch, (2) it was going to be a comedy, (3) it would never be confused with art, and (4) you can't say the title of this movie and the name of any award in the same sentence because you'll gag and choke.

It's interesting that the same number of people who thought all those guy movies that make fun of bimbo babes with big breasts would put down a movie that does the same thing back to guys. In its own way, this movie is a satire of all those guy movies. It's also slapstick in the vein of The Three Stooges and The Marx Brothers. The three women in this movie can't seem to do anything without something catastrophic happening to them. The humor is often gross, dealing with a variety of body fluids and other natural phenomena that polite society likes to pretend don't happen or exist. This movie has many similarities to another Cameron Diaz movie, "There's Something about Mary", only this movie wallows even more deeply into bodily part and function humor.

Now that I've given you all the provisos, I thought this movie was funny. It's stupid, but then again so are many other comedies, particularly half-hour sitcoms. The principal difference I see between most other comedies and half-hour sitcoms and this movie as that men are pretty much the butt of all the jokes. Furthermore, several stereotypes of women (some of which are founded in a level of truth) are exploited for excellent comedic effect. As an example, there is a scene in a restroom where Cameron Diaz and one of her friends are talking. An anonymous woman in the restroom admires her friend's (Christina Applegate, I think) breasts as the two are talking. Her friend tells the woman that they are fake, and tells her she can touch them. To not annoy the Amazon censors I'll stop here, but let's say that the following events had me rolling on the floor.

I suppose I should explain the plot briefly. Cameron Diaz is a player (in the same vein as those dozens of guy movies where it's always a guy who is the player). She tends to go through men like some people go through paper towels, until she runs into a guy that she knows somewhere in her heart of hearts is THE guy for her (Thomas Jane playing Peter Donahue). Cameron misses the opportunity to connect with Peter, and then regrets it. The rest of the movie deals with Cameron and Christina trying to locate Peter, and what happens after she finds Peter.

I can see where this movie would offend men who can see the humor in stereotypes of women, and not stereotypes of men. I can see this movie would offend women who do not like body part or fluid jokes. And this movie would offend anyone who doesn't like gross sex jokes. Everybody else will find this movie funny, with moments of outright slapstick.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The funniest thing!
Review: I hired out this DVD and watched it with a coupla pals when I was feeling a little under the weather, and I must say it lifted my spirits considerably!
This is a really fun movie, and it seems to do something that not many movies have done before - present women as the dirty-minded, mischevious and fun-loving ratbags that we so often are!!

The three main players, Diaz, Applegate and Blair are fantastic together - it really looks as though they were having the time of their lives making this film!

I went out and bought the DVD a few days after hiring it because I like girly films and I sure like to laugh.

If you saw this one at the cinema, I recommend you watch the DVD because one of the scenes not considered fit for cinema-goers is an absolute gem - very cheeky indeed.

There isn't really much of a story to the whole thing, but it hardly matters. The characters are lovable dags, most of the scenes are very funny, Diaz has some great outfits, the music is cool and in a weird way, it is quite realistic.
Fantastic for a girls' night in!!


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