Just a Kiss (2002)
19 %
Reviews Counted: 59 Fresh: 11 Rotten:48 Average Rating: 4/10
Consensus:
With annoying characters and gimmicks, the romantic comedy Just a Kiss is neither touching nor funny.
Runtime: 90 mins
Theatrical Release: Sep 27, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: Directed by Fisher Stevens with a sharply witty script from writer Patrick Breen, who also stars as the film's antihero, Pete, JUST A KISS is a smart, hip black comedy with an energetic soundtrack, a sexy cast, and expert use of digital animation. The first scenes, while the credits are still... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Marisa Tomei, Kyra Sedgwick, Taye Diggs, Ron Eldard, Marley Shelton
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Most of the actors struggle with the clunky dialogue and often look almost as uncomfortable delivering it as you’ll feel sitting there watching them do so.
09/24/03
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Winds up feeling like lots of other quirky movies that try to score hipness points with young adults.
10/26/02
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Breen's script has deadpan wit, though it becomes a little labored as it goes along.
10/21/02
Can't get enough of libidinous young city dwellers? Try this obscenely bad dark comedy, so crass that it makes Edward Burns' Sidewalks of New York look like Oscar Wilde.
10/21/02
Occasionally amateurishly made but a winsome cast and nice dialogue keeps it going.
10/18/02
The rather unlikable, unsympathetic characters make what is less than 90 minutes seem much, much longer.
10/18/02
We have poignancy jostling against farce, thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners, and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except, maybe, that it looks neat.
10/18/02
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For the most part Stevens glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue.
10/17/02
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10/11/02
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Just a Kiss wants desperately to come off as a fanciful film about the typical problems of average people. But it is set in a world that is very, very far from the one most of us inhabit.
10/10/02
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