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07/27/01
America's Sweethearts (2001)
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Reviews Counted:142
Fresh:45
Rotten:97
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Despite its famous cast, the movie lacks sympathetic characters and is only funny in spurts.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (John Cusack) are AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS, two wildly popular celebrities who share their love on and off the screen in this farcical romantic comedy. But a... [More]
Starring: Julia Roberts, John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Crystal
Director: Joe Roth
Reviews for America's Sweethearts
As a romantic comedy, America's Sweethearts is atrocious. As a skewering of Hollywood ego, it's actually quite funny.
07/26/01
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07/26/01
Top CriticThe send-up is doggedly unclever in its attention to the vagaries of fame, insecurities of famous people, and artifice of Hollywood romance.
07/25/01
A lackluster screwball comedy and dubious Julia Roberts vehicle.
07/24/01
The film does indeed deliver the laughs, and I suppose we can't ask much more than that in these mediocre summer months.
07/23/01
The script ... is crisp and fresh, the gags well-aimed and nastily barbed.
07/23/01
Gives us television sitcom-like 'onesa' characters ... whose behavior seems prompted by whatever suits the scene rather than any kind of emotional truth.
07/23/01
A clunky ribbing of the movie industry.
07/23/01
This film made me laugh just enough to recommend it. (It is a close call, however.)
07/23/01
Takes aim at Hollywood and delightfully surprises with a funny and entertaining film.
07/23/01
A major studio takes aim at itself in a series of mostly successful sketches parodying the underhanded ways movie companies have of marketing their fare.
07/21/01
...while they [Crystal & Tolan] sprinkle the script with several brilliant bits, their story begins to deflate just when it should be reaching its comic climax.
07/21/01
If it wants to be a romance between [Cusack and Roberts], I've seen more sparks fly between ostriches.
07/20/01
Far too many scenes seem painfully contrived, go nowhere and just aren’t humorous. It’s silly, but not very funny.
07/20/01
A real crowd pleaser with laughs so big and often that you're going to miss some of the lines.
07/20/01
Crystal and Co. shoot for the cheapest laughs they can find, and ignore the tougher, smarter ones they might have discovered in so potentially rich a vein as Hollywood's marketing practices.
07/20/01
Just funny enough, just romantic enough and just satiric enough to be good.
07/20/01
There's nothing wrong with broad and campy humor, but America's Sweethearts rarely gets the tone right.
07/20/01
The whole thing shambles when it should crackle.
07/20/01
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