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: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 19
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.
Apr 12, 2002 Wide
Aug 20, 2002
$24.4M
Columbia Pictures
All Critics (129) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (29) | Rotten (80) | DVD (21)
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.
This 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.
Remember the movie critic Sony invented to give their films good reviews? Not even he would like this movie.
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.
The idea forwarded here seems to be that cows can be just as stupid and lewd and backward as bulls (!!!). The result amazingly reaches the same conclusion: boring, and embarrassingly so. The cast, however brave, fails to lift the material. The groaning you will hear, that'd be you.
September 26, 2011Super Reviewer
Hilarious! Some of the scenes were cringing but you couldn't help but laugh.
June 23, 2011Super Reviewer
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