The Sweetest Thing (2002)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 107
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 79
A collection of hit-or-miss gags tied together by a thin plot.
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 20
A collection of hit-or-miss gags tied together by a thin plot.
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Former South Park writer and Win Ben Stein's Money sidekick Nancy Pimental makes her feature screenwriting debut with this relationship comedy. Cameron Diaz stars as Christina Walters, a jaded, club-hopping single woman in San Francisco who has given up trying to find the perfect mate to focus on "Mr. Right Now." Her equally cynical friend, Courtney (Christina Applegate), a divorce attorney, shares much the same attitude, while their pal, Jane (Selma Blair), is more starry-eyed and naïve.
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Female characters should be allowed to engage in raunchy humor on the big screen; they already do on the small one with Sex and the City. But unlike that HBO series, The Sweetest Thing has no guts.
Top CriticThis picture is one of the flattest, stupidest, unfunniest sex comedies -- as well as one of the worst all-round pictures -- I've ever seen.
Seems to have been assembled (at short notice, with blindfolds on) by people who have never seen any movies outside of Cameron Diaz vehicles.
Loses its sense of humor in a vat of failed jokes, twitchy acting, and general boorishness.
The Sweetest Thing has nothing insightful to say about relationships, and nothing funny to say about the singles scene.
Extremely lowbrow -- definitely not for kids.
It's not great or inspired by any means, but it's cute and amusing enough.
Call it a younger, West Coast cousin to Sex and the City, or There's Something About Mary from the woman's point of view.
If a date suggests the two of you should go and see this film dump them.
...Mixes smut and wacky girlfriend antics in equal parts, often scoring the guilty chuckle in spite of itself, with plenty of bra-and-panty shots to please the guys.
Just when you think it's going to be a sappy chick flick, The Sweetest Thing surprises with a lewd joke or half-naked girl.
Cameron Diaz "comedy" follows the Farrelly brothers' path with degrading, unfunny "jokes" that make you feel unclean just watching them.
Fundamentally ugly in its supposition of normalcy in its uncreative, sex-starved protagonists.
The overriding effect of watching these actresses debase themselves is the cinematic equivalent of a motorway car wreck.
...'forgettable' is one of the best things one could call this film.
Una especie de There's Something about Mary pero que no termina de cuajarse en algo concreto y termina siendo una... una... una no s qu es lo que termina siendo!
...this one can't be recommended as a way to spend an hour and a half...you won't get it back.
All right, so it's not a brilliant piece of filmmaking, but it is a funny (sometimes hilarious) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself, a playful spirit and a game cast.
There's a frantic, anything-goes quality to "Sweetest" that's appealing at first, until it becomes apparent the movie has little more to offer than the friskiness of its stars...
The Sweetest Thing could have been a major summer underdog hit. Don't get me wrong. It's not a very good movie.
What's most wonderful is that all the heartless, cruel cads are played by women, and the seemingly sensitive, prey being stalked are played by guys.
Thoroughly noxious offspring of 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Sex & the City'.
A sour attempt at making a Farrelly Brothers-style, down-and-dirty laugher for the female set.
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- Courtney: Shot Gun!
- Christina Walters: Cheater.
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