Meet Monica Velour Reviews
Slant Magazine
Meet Monica Velour is a cruel movie. It's also cruelly unfunny.
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| Original Score: .5/4
Screen International
Despite a sympathetic performance from Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall, there simply isn't much life or surprise in this tepid indie.
Top CriticFrom dirty-movie parodies to the achieving of one's misfit dreams, Keith Bearden's coming-of-age dramedy adheres to the flaccidest of formulas.
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| Original Score: 1/5
BrianOrndorf.com
Blessed with a promising concept for a dark comedy, "Meet Monica Velour" would rather tug heartstrings or script repetitive behavior from derivative characters.
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| Original Score: C-
The result is unbalanced by cartoonish flourishes -- Ingram's performance being the chief offender -- that overpower Cattrall's subtler character work.
Watching Tobe circle the drain in an open-mouthed daze, like some sort of unwanted goldfish, is absolutely no fun at all.
You really come away wishing Cattrall could take this character to a more serious film. Who better to show the flip side of beauty?
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| Original Score: C+
Had first-time director Keith Bearden been as devoted to keeping Meet Monica Velour on track as he did to coming up with punderful porn flick names, he could have had a satisfying dark comedy on his hands.
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| Original Score: 2/4
In some ways this film's biggest failing is that it can't decide whose story it is telling, his or hers.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Harmless coming-of-age stuff, but you've seen it all a million times.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Hollywood & Fine
Dustin Ingram is a Jon Heder-wannabe, which is not something that anyone should want to be.
The role of a former star of the ''golden age'' of porn sounds perfect for Kim Cattrall, and she handles it nicely - at least, in the rare moments when this indie comedy isn't terminally contrived.
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| Original Score: C
Bullz-Eye.com
From a plot standpoint, there isn't much that's remarkable about it, yet its two central figures are so honestly drawn that they make up for any predictability along the way.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
I could have lived a thousand life times blissfully unaware of what Brian Dennehy's flabby ass cheeks look like, but these are the occupational risks.
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| Original Score: C+
Empire Magazine
Beautifully acted, it's a tender love story with one or two belly laughs.
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| Original Score: 3/5
WBAI Radio
Kim Cattrall takes on older female sexuality on screen, in her provocative as usual new role as a struggling single mom and sex worker, in this self-described male feminist directed movie. And playing female degradation raw, with surprising dignity.
Long Island Press
Cattrall does what she does best, pushing boundaries unapologetically. And there's not a hint of lewd intentions, but plenty of saucy satire surrounding US culture's sexual contradictions, in a geek's determined fantasy romance bypassing cougar labels.
