Rating: 
Summary: Horrible
Review: I can officially say that Drop Dead Gorgeous is the worst movie I have ever seen. Kirstie Alley, first of all, eliminates any potential quality that a movie may have. Secondly, Kirsten Dunst would not be my first pick for a contestant in a beauty pageant. I ran from the theater wildly swinging at the air and howling. I nearly clawed out your eyes before the fire department turned the hose on me. In addition, I laid in a ditch, devoid of purpose. empty. hollow. your thick tongue swollen in your parched mouth...voice hoarse you called to the heavens for answers, but none came.
Rating: 
Summary: "GOT SOME!"
Review: This flick holds up, and is funnier each and every time! Tammy Curry, the butch girl on the tractor should have won the crown in my book....and Alison Janney is drop dead hysterical....Any pageant where the host hotel is the airport Howard Johnson ROCKS in my book!
Rating: 
Summary: Tasteful? No. Funny? Yes!
Review: Disguised as a dumb teen comedy, "Drop Dead Goreous" is actually a clever, hilarious satire on beauty pageants and documentaries.A film crew comes to Mount Rose, Minnesota to document the local beauty pageant for the Sarah Rose Teen Princess Pageant. We have the stereotypical characters: Becky, the snobbish, pretty, rich girl (a truly bad Denise Richards); her mother Gladys (Kirstie Alley), the fanatical, ex-beauty queen in charge of the pageant; and Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst), the trailer-park Cinderella. Fur flies (as does Amber's mother, the fantastic Ellen Barkin) and tempers flare. Contestants get blown up, knocked out, and knocked off. And that's just at the local level. While clearly devoid of any tact, "Drop Dead Gorgeous" succeeds on its own terms, as a hilarious screwball farce with a brilliant cast (minus Richards), including Brittany Murphy and the wonderful, terribly underappreciated Allison Janney. It's not "Citizen Kane", but it's FUNNY!
Rating:
Summary: Too Close for Comfort....
Review: As a victim, er, veteran of a few small-town teen pageants myself, I fell over laughing at the realism of this movie. Ok, some things are exaggerated for effect, like the indenciary explosions, but the spirit of the competition is completely accurate. Pageants are blood sports. All the stereotypes - the stage mother/pageant director/former winner, the talented girl from the trailer park, the pedophile judge and the pay-offs - are for real. They have taken the slightest of artistic liberties with the characters, but the plot could have been lifted from life. They even taught the girl the pageant wave and the proper demure interview pose (seated on edge of chair, ankles crossed, hands folded in lap). Yes, America, there are places where people will invest thousands of dollars and make threats of violence to ensure a tiara on their daughters' heads. Oh, did I mention it's hysterically funny? Enjoy!
Rating:
Summary: Better with every viewing
Review: Excellent performances from a very talented ensemble cast. I have watched this movie in full at least 20 times and every time I watch it I discover something new and hilarious that I had missed on previous viewings.
This film certainly relies on black humour however and could also easily offend.
From what I have seen of their other work I am happy to go on record as saying that this movie generates the best perfomormances of their careers from Kirsten Dunst (equal to Interview with a Vampire), Denise Richards, Kirstie Alley, Brittany Murphy and Alison Janney.
Rating:
Summary: "GOT SOME!"
Review: This flick holds up, and is funnier each and every time! Tammy Curry, the butch girl on the tractor should have won the crown in my book....and Alison Janney is drop dead hysterical....Any pageant where the host hotel is the airport Howard Johnson ROCKS in my book!
Rating:
Summary: One of the funniest movies I've seen
Review: At first I thought this was just a movie about a beauty pageant - it sort of is, but it is one of the funniest movies I've seen. Lots of one-liners, and you notice more random funny things stuck in each time you watch it. I'd highly recommend this movie to anyone with a sarcastic sense of humor, especially if you'll catch small-town northern-Minnesota (or WI or MI or ME or Canada) jokes. Great flick.
Rating:
Summary: "If they ask you to take your top off, get the money first."
Review: I pull out "Drop Dead Gorgeous" every once-in-awhile for an honest laugh. The movie is a "fake" documentary about contestants in a beauty pageant, some of whom meet unhealthy fates - hence the double meaning of the title.
Kirsten Dunst plays "Amber Atkins", and Denise Richards plays "Rebecca Ann Leeman", the two main contestants. Amber is kind of a natural inexperienced contestant and lives in a trailer park, while Rebecca has that fake professional sincerity so important to contests and lives in a big colonial house. She is also vice-president of the local Lutheran Sisters gun club, and was given a "nine mil" by her mom on her thirteenth birthday. Their mothers are played by Ellen Barkin as "Annette Atkins" and Kirsty Alley as "Gladys Leeman". Annette is a former contestant, and Gladys is a past pageant winner and is also the chairman of the pageant organizing committee, but swears impartiality. Amber is competing because her two favorite people in the world - her mom, and news-personality Diane Sawyer - competed in them. She practices her talent (tap-dancing) while at work - at a mortuary doing hair and makeup on the deceased. She wants to be a "big-time reporter" like Diane Sawyer.
Brittany Murphy is a giggly contestant "Lisa Swenson". She is in it because "if you're seventeen, and not a total fry, it's just what you do." She is hilarious, especially when she shows pictures of her brother who is dressed as Liza Minelli, Madonna, And Barbra Streisand. "Tess" is another contestant, but very plain looking. Unfortunately, her former pet dog bit her, but as she says (and shows)..."they remade my belly with skin from my [back]." Another contestant, "Molly", was adopted by a Japanese couple after they came to America. They have a Japanese daughter as well, but they yell at her speak English. The previous winner, Mary Johanson, is now in the hospital suffering from an anorexia. Amber comes by the hosptal weekly to "do" Mary's hair (which is falling out). Rebecca also drops by the hospital (to be on camera), and brings her a box of chocolates.
Judge #1, "John Dough", gets a little nervous when asked about judging the young girls. "I don't get off on that kind of thing. That's really why you're askin', right? Someone say somethin'?" Judge #2, "Harold Vilmes", runs a paint and hardware store, and has a rather slow-witted brother, Hank, who approaches the camera and excitedly asks "Are we on Cops, are we on Cops?". Judge #3 is a straight-laced woman, Jean Kangas, who works at the Leeman furniture store.
Amber is asked out by the captain of the football team, Brett, and is excited, but then she thinks she'll probably have to work at the funeral home - "we're real busy this time of year...hunting season." Brett goes duck-hunting, and indeed, Amber will eventually do his hair and makeup, too.
Amber gets a photo of the first killed girl, "Tammy", with "you're next" printed on the back. Later, there is an explosion and fire at her trailer. Although her mother survives the blast, she ends up with a beercan fused into her hand. "Well, I sat down to have a beer, and 'kablooey', next thing I know, somethin' blows through my kitchen window, and I'm ass-up in somebody's flower bed." Amber wants to quit the pageant but her mother talks her into continuing - "You're not the one who knows how Jiffy Pop feels, missy."
At the pre-contest interview, all the other constestants are asked simple questions ("what kind of a tree would you be?") except Amber, who is asked to name and spell all 50 states in alphabetical order. At the dress-rehearsal, another contestant wants to switch numbers with Amber. Tragically, an overhead stage light falls on the contestant as she is performing her interpretive dance with sign language - a light meant for Amber?
I won't spoil the rest of it.
It takes place in Minnesota. A few Minnesotans (and others) have complained that the accents are a bit much. However, in my job I talk to people all over America, and every single person I've spoken to in Minnesota has that accent, you betcha.
Amber and Annette's neighbor, "Loretta", is played by Allison Janney. She has a small role but funny dialog. Adam West (original "Batman") has a small role as the pageant host, and pokes a little fun at himself.
Some politically incorrect phrases such as "Jew", "cripple", "Japs" and "retard", pop up, so if you are sensitive, you unfortunately should watch something else.
The PG-13 rated DVD has the full-screen and wide-screen version, cast and crew text, a trailer, and DVD-ROM script-to-screen. Not many funnier movies out there. And cheap, too.
Rating:
Summary: MISS BURNSVILLE SUPERB
Review: This my ulitmate favorite movie!! It is so much fun! You have to listen and watch carfully to get the full effect of the comedy but it is so funny when you catch all the little effects. Especially when your from the 'mount rose' area of the country and you realize you really do talk like that. Which I do. So if you are fortunate to see this...You better pee first cause you'll laugh so hard you'll piss your pants!!
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