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Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
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Reviews Counted:65
Fresh:29
Rotten:36
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: It's dark humor sometimes hits, but mostly misses the target.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: There can be only one Miss Teen Princess and an overbearing mother will stop at nothing to make sure her daughter wins a beauty contest. A twisted comedy set in a small Minnesota town loaded with... [More]
Starring: Kirstie Alley, Kirsten Dunst, Ellen Barkin, Denise Richards
Director: Michael Patrick Jann
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Reviews for Drop Dead Gorgeous
The film finally loses all effectiveness as satire and disintegrates into vomit jokes and clumsy anti-climaxes.
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Perfectly wicked and hilarious!
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Drop Dead Gorgeous is undeniably a refinement of the Farrelly Bros.' brand of audacity.
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Although the satire is biting and the tone is irreverent, Drop Dead Gorgeous lacks the killer script and top notch performances necessary to make this a wholly successful production.
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Top CriticHilarious
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The target may be a bit obvious, but the laughs are often there.
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Unbelievably funny!
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Drop Dead Gorgeous hasn't enough structural savvy to make it a winner.
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Top CriticExhibits a lot of attitude but not a whole lot of smarts.
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Humorously effective!
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Its dark humor often hits the spot.
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The ideas are funnier than the images.
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Top CriticDrop Dead Gorgeous doesn't drop dead, but the gags often arrive like planks hitting our heads.
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Energetically acted but too in love with its own outrageousness, Drop Dead Gorgeous goes for the jugular of beauty pageant culture and ends up leaving only a hickey.
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Crude and witless!
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Top CriticThe movie does have some mean, funny bits.
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Gorgeous is one of the year's funniest acts of malice!
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Top CriticGood taste may be on vacation but big laughs are out in full force.
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Broad, obvious and thuddingly unfunny!
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