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Dirty Love (2005)

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Reviews Counted:28

Fresh:1

Rotten:27

Average Rating:2.2/10

Consensus: The laugh-free Dirty Love is a comedy dead zone -- it's aggressively crude and shoddily constructed.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong sexuality, crude humor, language and some drug use.

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Sep 23, 2005 Limited

Synopsis: While some may raise an eyebrow when they discover that Jenny McCarthy wrote the script for DIRTY LOVE, it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise: McCarthy has already established herself as a... While some may raise an eyebrow when they discover that Jenny McCarthy wrote the script for DIRTY LOVE, it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise: McCarthy has already established herself as a writer, has never been afraid to laugh at herself, and has further screenplays in the works. The curvacious former model proved her comedic chops as host of MTV's SINGLED OUT, and serves up further laughs in this addition to the gross-out comedy genre, which was directed by her husband, John Mallory Asher (although McCarthy filed for divorce from Asher shortly before DIRTY LOVE's theatrical debut). Rebecca (McCarthy) is a fashion photographer who is shocked when she discovers her boyfriend, Richard (Victor Webster), in bed with another woman. After the initial hurt, Rebecca decides she wants Richard back, and embarks on a quest to sleep with as many men as possible, thinking her former lover will be so jealous that he'll beg her to return. Rebecca's friend Michelle (Carmen Electra) eggs her on, and a series of farcical set-pieces is engineered to highlight Rebecca's increasingly desperate attempts to get laid. In a film full of bawdy humor and harsh language, McCarthy camps it up as her character wallows in her own menstrual blood, throws up over her own ample cleavage, and does whatever it takes to win her man back. DIRTY LOVE is a piece of lowbrow filmmaking that is unashamedly trashy, and owes a sizeable debt to the ribald comedy of Benny Hill and the Pope of Trash himself, John Waters. [More]

Starring: Jenny McCarthy, Carmen Electra, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Victor Webster

Starring: Jenny McCarthy, Carmen Electra, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Victor Webster, Kathy Griffin, Guillermo Diaz

Director: John Mallory Asher

Director: John Mallory Asher
Screenwriter: Jenny McCarthy
Producer: Jenny McCarthy, John Mallory Asher, B.J. Davis, Kimberley Kates, Michael Manasseri, Rod Hamilton, Trent Walford
Studio: First Look

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

McCarthy is still not funny, never was, never will be.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 29 2009 03:16 AM

Cinema Crazed

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Ethan Alter

It doesn't make a lick of sense, largely because none of these characters acts like a recognizable human being.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 01 2007 03:43 AM

Film Journal International

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McCarthy is still a tremendously appealing presence, but her script about a gal who tries to move on after her himbo boyfriend kicks her to the curb is pure amateur hour.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 24 2006 04:06 AM

Time Out

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1.5/5

Christopher Null

When Carmen Electra as a ghetto body waxer is the highlight of your film, you've got trouble.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 06 2006 03:15 AM

Filmcritic.com

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David Cornelius

Dirty Love is ninety mintes of soul-crushing idiocy, wrapped in incompetence and smothered in fart jokes.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Nov., 28 2005 12:07 PM

eFilmCritic.com

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1/4

Jeffrey Westhoff

Aims to be the chick-flick answer to Deuce Bigalow, but even that turns out to be setting its sights too high.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 13 2005 10:31 AM

Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

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Lisa Rose

The shtick is desperately crude and not particularly funny. One wonders why any actress, even a retired MTV game show hostess, would stoop to such a disgraceful gig.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 27 2005 01:33 PM

Newark Star-Ledger

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Frank Ochieng

Dreadfully lacking...about as awkwardly received as a training bra on Anna Nicole Smith’s bouncy bosom...a cheap-minded farce aimed at the lowest common denominator

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 26 2005 02:03 PM

Movie Eye

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1.5/5

Kim Williamson

You can't really like a movie that features a beautiful young woman who sometimes is naked and you end up leaving the theatre wishing you could see less of her.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 26 2005 03:16 AM

Boxoffice Magazine

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Stephen Holden

Even by the standards of its bottom-feeding genre, Dirty Love clings to the gutter like a rat in garbage.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 23 2005 03:54 PM

New York Times

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1.5/4

Bob Strauss

One thing you can say for McCarthy: The woman knows no vanity.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 23 2005 02:38 PM

Los Angeles Daily News

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F

The shoddy script and train wreck of a supporting cast don't do much to win us over.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 23 2005 02:37 PM

E! Online

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1.5/4

Jami Bernard

Comedy can be a deadly weapon in the wrong hands.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 23 2005 02:35 PM

New York Daily News

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Kyle Smith

Jenny McCarthy's giddy charm is wasted by screen writer Jenny McCarthy.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 23 2005 02:33 PM

New York Post

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1/4

Maitland McDonagh

This dyspeptic exploration of modern romance was written by TV-star Jenny McCarthy, who tailored its vulgar slapstick to her own apparently endless willingness to be the butt of raunchy gags.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 23 2005 02:30 PM

TV Guide's Movie Guide

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3/10

JoBlo

I can remember only one other scene in the entire 90-minute movie that made me laugh...

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 23 2005 11:28 AM

JoBlo's Movie Emporium

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2/4

Josh Larsen

McCarthy ... is so busy trying to prove she doesn't take herself seriously that she undersells what is actually some serious comedic talent.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 23 2005 09:45 AM

Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)

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Edward Havens

An hour and a half of uninspired dreck.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 22 2005 09:19 PM

FilmJerk.com

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0/5

Kevin Crust

Attention, Razzie voters.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 22 2005 05:53 PM

Los Angeles Times

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Roger Ebert

Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 22 2005 11:36 AM

Chicago Sun-Times

 
 
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