Better Than Chocolate

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Summary: At best this is an afterschool special
Review: Ok...a lesbian flick, designed like an an after school special for TV from the 70's-80's, and the acting is well in deep need of talent...take away some kissing and nudity (not done well) and you have a shallow comedy/love story with no substance...Like decaffinated coffee...what's the point

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Summary: Loved This Movie
Review: I absolutley love this movie about Maggie and Kim falling in love yet Maggie is too afraid to let her mom know that she actually is a lesbian. The love scenes are incredible. I am actually straight but if I find out one day that I prefer women over men, I would hope to experience this type of love with a woman. If anyone knows what song is playing during their first love scene in Kim's van in front of the coffee shop which is being towed away as they getting closer and closer to making out like star-crossed lovers,Please let me know... It has the lines,"it's like me loving you and you loving me.." E-mail me at [e-mail] if you have any information because the song is not on the soundtrack.

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Summary: Pretty Bad!!
Review: After reading the raving reviews I expected this to be a great movie with some erotic scenes. Wrong! It was pretty bad. Lots of stereotypical dykes and no attractive women at all. Terrible love scenes with no chemistry and the misperception that lesbians are all a bunch of butches and have sex toys just lying around everywhere for anyone to find. Yuck! This is the kind of movie that gives lesbianism a bad image. Do yourself a favor and rent GIA instead. It's a much better movie and the love between the women seemed much more believable.

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Summary: For women 18 and older
Review: (film should be rated R or NC 17) They marketed this film in Germany for straight people as a comedy- In the U.S. they marketed it for lesbians. "Better Than Chocolate", filmed on a low budget on location in Vancouver, Canada, is one of the best movies I have ever seen as far as acting talent, directing, and producing. I took a chance on this movie without ever hearing about it and loved it. If you have a little rainbow in you or are "straight but not narrow" you will LOVE this film-there is awesome directing and many comedic parts to laugh at. There are also a few sensitive parts of the movie that I always cringe at like when some people on a motorcycle throw a beer bottle on the side of a lesbian dance club, Judy gets beat up in a bathroom by a woman but is saved by her friends, and when lewd men leer at Maggie at the end of the film while she is trying to make an artistic statement at her friend's 10 Percent Bookstore. The majority of the film takes place at the 10 Percent Bookstore, the coffeeshop next door to the bookstore, Maggie's sublet, and a night club.

I won't ruin the ending but if you are thinking twice about owning this film- don't- I watched this movie 3x the same weekend I got it-I loved listening to the director's commentary the 3rd time I watched it, and my friend Holli liked certain parts of it so much(even though she slept through most of it because she was tired) she was sure she wanted to buy it and I told her I got it off Amazon. I do warn you, I think this movie is definately for mature women 18 and older because there are some sexy scenes that don't leave anything to the imagination-some of it is in the name of art but *most of it is not.

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Summary: Sexy Enough
Review: The storyline and characters are ok, but it's the love scenes that made this one interesting. Of course your always left with that feeling that there could have been more. I mean if you make the film "unrated", add a little more spice to it.

The kissing is pretty nice, but it's not done often enough or long enough. The bathroom and shower scene's are very steamy, as is the scene on the couch. I love how both girl's show a genuine attraction towards each other. Both girl's are beautiful and are certainly not timid.

Lesbian films are getting better, although I still haven't seen one that tops "Desert Hearts" in sensuality. "Better Than Chocolate" is still worth a peek.

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Summary: unsexy and highly overrated
Review: After hearing such high reviews, this movie was a HUGE disappointment. It seemed more an effort to display every known lesbian stereotype than to show the story of the two young women that the movie is about. You've got your semi-closeted femme, your artistic, transient butch, your androgynous activist, your slutty bisexual, and your sensitive transgender. Then you've got the homophobic yet supportive neighbor, blah blah blah...

The entire movie takes place in the space of about 10 days, in which Maggie and Kim meet, fall in love, move in together, and come out to Maggie's mom, have a fight, break up, reconcile, and live happily ever after. The sex is unconvincing. There is absolutely NO chemistry between the two actresses. If they had gone all the way over the top and tried to make it a parody of lesbian stereotypes, it might have been funny. The problem is that I think they tried to make it a warm, fuzzy, romantic comedy.

In the end, that's $12 and two hours of my life I'll never get back.

Rating:
Summary: Not Great, Not Wretched.
Review: I'm a touch critic of lesbian movies. Movie makers think because you're a lesbian that you'll watch anything...and...as much as I hate to admit it, in my case they're right.
I liked the red headed girl in this movie. She was cute and sexy. There are some semi intriguing love scenes, but all in all it was sort of trite.
This movie should have been about two young girls falling in love, but the film makers tried to cram all kinds of [material] into the plot. There's a gay bookstore where censorship issues are examined...but like, these issue's were dead back in the seventies.
The film makers should have kept the focus on the two young girls in love...that was where the story was...not with the mother discovering a vibrator...not with the lesbian sex change person in love with the bookstore owner...not with the ... brother.
Pick a topic and stick to it.

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Summary: Ooey Gooey Goodness
Review: There seem to be a lot of negative reviews of BTC that carry the words 'cheesy' or 'murky' or 'political'. It makes sense that BTC-virgins who've heard endless raving about this movie would be let down. It's okay thought that it's less than spectacular because it's what we've dreamed of so many nights.

Isn't there a part of every young lesbian that wants to run away to work (and live) at a bookstore or work (and live) out of an elaborately painted van? Typically we can't, but we know it would be fun. Which can also be said for subletting from a sex toy touting feminist, being employed by a cranky yet endearing, shy, androgenous activist, and having business and sex lives full of performance art. And so many other things in this movie. Yeah, there are a lot of things going on, but if it's going to be the life so many young [girls dream of, what's wrong with packing it chock full of fun stuff?

And doesn't part of every lesbian want to be like Maggie and Kim? They're both sexy enough to get us excited but average-looking enough to be believable. The mother and brother are out of touch enough to make us nervous but cool enough in the end to make us feel all warm and fuzzy. And that, in the end, is all "Better than Chocolate" does. And it does it phenomenally well.

Bottom Line
Cuddles: *****
Tissues: ***
Hotness: ****
Laughs: ***
Quality: ****
Just buy it already

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Summary: Wish There Was More...
Review: I absolutely love this movie!! But the things that really disturbed me was the sex scenes. The scenes get you going just to get interrupted. The part that I thought was the sexiest was the body paint. The way they painted their bodies showed how much you can make a love scene art. I think they showed how in all actuallity it can be hard to come out especially to your mother. But yet I don't know if anyone has to deal with a mother as annoying. The movie is great and will be one of all time favorites. Even the sex scenes don't show great detail or that they get interrupted its enough to get me going. I think its a beautiful thing between two woman who love each other (yet a little too quick, but hey). A deffinate recommended movie!!! :-)

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Summary: Better than anything....
Review: This movie, has to be hands down the best lesbian movie i have ever seen, it has everything from sex scenes, to lesbian issue and whats more it has a good storyline......
Christina Cox makes this movie very exciting and you may even shed a tear at the end....
If you are a fan of a good movie with a good storyline, and a few lesbian sex scenes to top it off then this is one you dont want to miss....
I had to buy it after watching it, so now i can watch it whenever i want and never get sick of it.......