So many fizzling gags that you’ll think you’re watching a failed fireworks display set off in a torrential downpour.
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04/12/02
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The Sweetest Thing (2002)
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Reviews Counted:104
Fresh:26
Rotten:78
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: A collection of hit-or-miss gags tied together by a thin plot.
Theatrical Release:Apr 12, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $24,430,272
Synopsis: Where can a girl who is usually the heartbreaker find the perfect guy? For Christina Walters (Cameron Diaz), the answer is the San Francisco nightclub where she meets Peter Donahue (Thomas Jane).... [More]
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Selma Blair, Thomas Jane
Director: Roger Kumble
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Reviews for The Sweetest Thing
A fast, funny, highly enjoyable movie.
04/12/02
Remember the movie critic Sony invented to give their films good reviews? Not even he would like this movie.
04/12/02
Top CriticDerivative to the point of annoyance, it includes near copycat nods to Not Another Teen Movie, Scary Movie, American Pie -- anything in which yuk-'em-up sex jokes take center stage.
04/12/02
Has some valuable insights into the dating world to go with its outlandish comicality...one of the biggest delights of the spring season.
04/12/02
What this film really suffers from is a lack of inventive writing.
04/12/02
The film seems to be straining to be funny.
04/12/02
Freddy Got Fingered for dummies.
04/12/02
The rail-thin Christina bemoaning her 'saggy' 28-year-old breasts may be the most futile attempt at generating sympathy ever seen in movies.
04/12/02
The most perverted, obnoxious and derogatory 'guy flick' written by a girl I've ever seen.
04/12/02
Bound to appeal to women looking for a howlingly trashy time.
04/12/02
Top CriticClever packaging of boy fantasy and girl fantasy.
04/12/02
Top CriticIt's hard to overstate just how awful this movie is, despite the efforts of the appealing cast.
04/12/02
Essentially a collection of bits -- and they're all naughty.
04/12/02
Top CriticBad. Very bad. Stultifyingly, dumbfoundingly, mind-numbingly bad.
04/12/02
Not so much a movie as an amiable collection of off-color vignettes. None of them soar, but some are well worth a giggle.
04/12/02
A bunch of intermittently amusing sketches that collectively don't add up to much of a picture.
04/12/02
Top CriticAt 87 minutes, The Sweetest Thing feels pumped up with air, with an extended end-credits sequence designed to stretch the movie to a respectable feature length.
04/12/02
Top CriticReplace 'fun' with gross-out sketches, and you've pretty much got the tone of the movie.
04/12/02
Director Roger Kumble offers just enough sweet and traditional romantic comedy to counter the crudity. And there's the inimitable Diaz, holding it all together.
04/12/02
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