The Sweetest Thing leaves an awful sour taste.
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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
The ads for The Sweetest Thing promise that if you loved There's Something About Mary and My Best Friend's Wedding, then you can't miss this latest Cameron Diaz vehicle. Well, miss it.
04/12/02
Forget relationships; these party grrls need to quit fooling around and commit to a stable movie.
04/12/02
Sadly, The Sweetest Thing garners only a few chuckles, becoming, even in its short running time, boring.
04/12/02
An awkward hybrid of genres that just doesn't work.
04/12/02
Top CriticA cheerfully twisted, energetic chick flick that simply does not waste time taking itself seriously.
04/12/02
The sort of movie that gives tastelessness a bad rap.
04/12/02
Diaz, Applegate, Blair and Posey are suitably kooky which should appeal to women and they strip down often enough to keep men alert, if not amused.
04/12/02
Every visual joke is milked, every set-up obvious and lengthy, every punchline predictable. There's no energy.
04/12/02
It's a shallow movie, to be sure, but it has this much in its favor: It's a shallow movie that wholeheartedly, even joyfully embraces the point of view of the three, um, babe-a-licious women at its center.
04/12/02
Top CriticFlimsy and forgettable.
04/12/02
Lacks original humor.
04/12/02
Top CriticThe film's occasional flights into the absurd -- like an extremely compromising situation devolving into a group sing-a-long -- are real howlers. But the rest of this flick we've seen before.
04/12/02
The Sweetest Thing wanders into such ironies and shoddily exploits them. The title is even a bad joke: This movie is to sweet as a dog is to a hydrant.
04/12/02
Top CriticIf Diaz wants to keep panty-dancing in movie after movie, who am I to complain?
04/12/02
An overstimulated sex comedy with a stifling lack of humor.
04/12/02
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Though many of its grossest moments draw groans rather than guffaws, and a few yawns, Sweetest is occasionally and audaciously funny.
04/12/02
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