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Love Stinks (1999)

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Reviews Counted:47

Fresh:9

Rotten:38

Average Rating:3.5/10

Consensus: This one-dimensional comedy with recycled laughs will have you holding your nose.

Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Seth Winnick has it all -- a successful career in television, good friends, and a passionate relationship with the beautiful Chelsea Turner. However, when he fails to make a timely marriage... Seth Winnick has it all -- a successful career in television, good friends, and a passionate relationship with the beautiful Chelsea Turner. However, when he fails to make a timely marriage proposal, Chelsea behaves as is she has been bitten by a rapid squirrel. The two redirect their passion into malice and forge a sordid "anti-relationship," replacing love and tenderness with vengeance and venom, which fuels a series of bids to out do the other with acts of cruelty. This unromantic comedy features cameos by Jason Bateman, Christian Slater, and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen. [More]

Starring: French Stewart, Bridgette Wilson, Tyra Banks, Bill Bellamy

Starring: French Stewart, Bridgette Wilson, Tyra Banks, Bill Bellamy, Jason Bateman, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Steve Hytner, Shana Moakler, Christian Slater

Director: Jeff Franklin

Director: Jeff Franklin
Screenwriter: Jeff Franklin
Producer: Craig Baumgarten
Composer: Bennett Salvay

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Feb 8, 2000

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Love Stinks is a lively turn on an old idea.

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01/01/00
Barbara Lester
Barbara Lester
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Love Stinks is proof that even an awful, poorly executed idea can be borderline entertaining if it has enough funny jokes.

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01/01/00
Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

Love Stinks can make you feel good, especially if you've been involved in a bad relationship.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
01/01/00
Charles Ealy
Charles Ealy
Dallas Morning News
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The film breaks every rule of the romantic comedy and does it with such glee that even when a gag is fully predictable it's still entertaining.

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01/01/00
Eugene Novikov
Eugene Novikov
Film Blather

Sometimes it stinks with the sweat of failure. But sometimes it's as bitterly funny as its makers could hope.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jeff Millar
Jeff Millar
Houston Chronicle
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Franklin relies too much on easy laugh-getters such as flatulence and crotch-kick gags, but at least he does provide his half-baked script with a fairly satisfying wrap-up.

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01/01/00
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

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01/01/00
Marty Mapes
Marty Mapes
Movie Habit

Love Stinks exceeds its expectations.

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Phoebe Flowers
Phoebe Flowers
Miami Herald

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Rob Blackwelder
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Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Film Threat

Inane writing and a flaccid plot.

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01/01/00
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12/08/02
Film Threat

A one-dimensional comedy that mostly falls flat.

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01/01/00
Anita Gates
Anita Gates
New York Times

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01/01/00
Ben Jones
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01/01/00
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

Love Stinks is such a paean to television, it would have done better to go straight to video, where it belongs.

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Cate McQuaid
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Boston Globe

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10/05/05
Chuck O'Leary
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily

They called it right: this movie reeks, stinks, smells and destroys life as we know it with one olfactory destructive blast.

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01/01/00
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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Franklin has a certain talent for one-liners -- which Stewart delivers with rat-a-tat precision -- but the result is a spiteful movie that savors its own venom a little too well.

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01/01/00
Edward Guthmann
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle
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