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Dirty Love (2005)

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Reviews Counted:28

Fresh:1

Rotten:27

Average Rating:2.2/10

Consensus: The laugh-free Dirty Love is a comedy dead zone -- it's aggressively crude and shoddily constructed.

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: While some may raise an eyebrow when they discover that Jenny McCarthy wrote the script for DIRTY LOVE, it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise: McCarthy has already established herself as a... While some may raise an eyebrow when they discover that Jenny McCarthy wrote the script for DIRTY LOVE, it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise: McCarthy has already established herself as a writer, has never been afraid to laugh at herself, and has further screenplays in the works. The curvacious former model proved her comedic chops as host of MTV's SINGLED OUT, and serves up further laughs in this addition to the gross-out comedy genre, which was directed by her husband, John Mallory Asher (although McCarthy filed for divorce from Asher shortly before DIRTY LOVE's theatrical debut). Rebecca (McCarthy) is a fashion photographer who is shocked when she discovers her boyfriend, Richard (Victor Webster), in bed with another woman. After the initial hurt, Rebecca decides she wants Richard back, and embarks on a quest to sleep with as many men as possible, thinking her former lover will be so jealous that he'll beg her to return. Rebecca's friend Michelle (Carmen Electra) eggs her on, and a series of farcical set-pieces is engineered to highlight Rebecca's increasingly desperate attempts to get laid. In a film full of bawdy humor and harsh language, McCarthy camps it up as her character wallows in her own menstrual blood, throws up over her own ample cleavage, and does whatever it takes to win her man back. DIRTY LOVE is a piece of lowbrow filmmaking that is unashamedly trashy, and owes a sizeable debt to the ribald comedy of Benny Hill and the Pope of Trash himself, John Waters. [More]

Starring: Jenny McCarthy, Carmen Electra, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Victor Webster

Starring: Jenny McCarthy, Carmen Electra, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Victor Webster, Kathy Griffin, Guillermo Diaz

Director: John Mallory Asher

Director: John Mallory Asher
Screenwriter: Jenny McCarthy
Producer: Jenny McCarthy, John Mallory Asher, B.J. Davis, Kimberley Kates, Michael Manasseri, Rod Hamilton, Trent Walford
Studio: First Look

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McCarthy is still a tremendously appealing presence, but her script about a gal who tries to move on after her himbo boyfriend kicks her to the curb is pure amateur hour.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Time Out
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The shoddy script and train wreck of a supporting cast don't do much to win us over.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
09/23/05
E! Online
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One thing you can say for McCarthy: The woman knows no vanity.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
09/23/05
Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

When Carmen Electra as a ghetto body waxer is the highlight of your film, you've got trouble.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
04/06/06
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

Dirty Love is ninety mintes of soul-crushing idiocy, wrapped in incompetence and smothered in fart jokes.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
11/28/05
David Cornelius
David Cornelius
eFilmCritic.com

An hour and a half of uninspired dreck.

Full Review Source: FilmJerk.com | comment Comment
09/22/05
Edward Havens
Edward Havens
FilmJerk.com

McCarthy has no comedic skills, and the film more than adequately proves it.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
05/05/05
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

It doesn't make a lick of sense, largely because none of these characters acts like a recognizable human being.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
Ethan Alter
Ethan Alter
Film Journal International

McCarthy is still not funny, never was, never will be.

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
04/29/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Dreadfully lacking...about as awkwardly received as a training bra on Anna Nicole Smith’s bouncy bosom...a cheap-minded farce aimed at the lowest common denominator

Full Review Source: Movie Eye | comment Comment
09/26/05
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
Movie Eye

Comedy can be a deadly weapon in the wrong hands.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
09/23/05
Jami Bernard
Jami Bernard
New York Daily News

Aims to be the chick-flick answer to Deuce Bigalow, but even that turns out to be setting its sights too high.

Full Review Source: Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) | comment Comment
10/13/05
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

I can remember only one other scene in the entire 90-minute movie that made me laugh...

Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | comment Comment
09/23/05
JoBlo
JoBlo
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

McCarthy ... is so busy trying to prove she doesn't take herself seriously that she undersells what is actually some serious comedic talent.

Full Review Source: Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) | comment Comment
09/23/05
Josh Larsen
Josh Larsen
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)

Attention, Razzie voters.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
09/22/05
Kevin Crust
Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times
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You can't really like a movie that features a beautiful young woman who sometimes is naked and you end up leaving the theatre wishing you could see less of her.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
09/26/05
Kim Williamson
Kim Williamson
Boxoffice Magazine

Jenny McCarthy's giddy charm is wasted by screen writer Jenny McCarthy.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
09/23/05
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post

The shtick is desperately crude and not particularly funny. One wonders why any actress, even a retired MTV game show hostess, would stoop to such a disgraceful gig.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
09/27/05
Lisa Rose
Lisa Rose
Newark Star-Ledger

This dyspeptic exploration of modern romance was written by TV-star Jenny McCarthy, who tailored its vulgar slapstick to her own apparently endless willingness to be the butt of raunchy gags.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
09/23/05
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Excruciatingly inept.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
09/20/05
Mark Holcomb
Mark Holcomb
Village Voice
 
 
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