Chasing Amy (1997)
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Reviews Counted:66
Fresh:60
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: Chasing Amy explores gender roles, sexual mores, and the limits of friendship with a mixture of sensitivity, raw honesty, and director/screenwriter Kevin Smith's signature raunchy humor.
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Kevin Smith's third film was critically acclaimed for its adroitness in balancing complex, adult sexual issues with jokes about bodily functions. The two Garden State guys this time around are... [More]
Starring: Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Lee, Dwight Ewell
Director: Kevin Smith
Reviews for Chasing Amy
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While there is nothing horribly offensive here, neither is there anything as gut-bustingly funny as in his gloriously foulmouthed debut. Full Review |
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The script moves beyond Smith's customary cataloguing of male adolescent ignorance and idiocy to offer sharp insights into the romanticism and pragmatism, pride and double standards that define the tangled threesome. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Utilises the same sharp - sometimes sick - observational humour and ear for dialogue that made Clerks such an indie gem. Full Review |
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4/5 |
While this dark, perceptive variation on the romantic comedy genre doesn't quite match the former's [Clerks] majesty, it still marks a triumphant return to form. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
Like a raw nerve tweaked over and over again by emotions both radiant and revealing, Chasing Amy is as close to a masterpiece as Smith has ever created. Full Review |
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Smith's most mature film. Yes, it's filled with crude dialogue, blunt descriptions of sex and an overkill of Star Wars references, but it uses these to dig deeper and make its subject matter more accessible. Full Review |
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B+ |
Smith isn't just fooling around anymore. Full Review |
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The third time out is the real charm for writer-director Kevin Smith. Full Review |
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 2.5/4 |
The subject -- the complexity of love when all the rules have changed -- proves beyond the scope of his limited vision. Full Review |
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Neither PC nor crudely anti-PC, this tough and tender movie, like its characters, is prepared to take emotional risks, and the comic book milieu is deftly sketched in. Full Review |
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Amusing and appealing. Full Review |
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Instead of cool twenty-something irony, Smith startles us with raw emotional honesty. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The plot and dialogue play too much as if Smith is re-enacting past romantic squabbles he's had, and rewriting them, too. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Like Clerks, this is a politically incorrect comedy with casual profanity, but more profoundly so. To Smith's credit, he doesn't play the Hollywood stereotype of lesbians as women who have not met the right guy. Full Review |
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B+ |
An intelligent and provocative low-budget film with big-budget talent and look, making it an exceptional independent effort. Full Review |
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A- |
...Smith makes raw and naturalistic, highly verbal films full of frank talk about sex; making the audience uncomfortable is part of the point. Full Review |
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B |
... an important movie about young people lost in the Gen-X labyrinth who are giving it a try [and] risking their hearts to find some kind of answer. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
It is evident that Kevin Smith is maturing both as a writer and a human being. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Smith's handling of actors has improved considerably. Now if he would stop looking for some goofy hook to build his movies around. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Indie god Kevin Smith's finest hour gets the Criterion treatment. Full Review |
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