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.
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
Reviews for Dirty Love
It doesn't make a lick of sense, largely because none of these characters acts like a recognizable human being.
It’s simply a showcase for actors trying to make it somehow by presuming they can overdo it and people will notice.
Dirty Love is ninety mintes of soul-crushing idiocy, wrapped in incompetence and smothered in fart jokes.
Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent.
Even by the standards of its bottom-feeding genre, Dirty Love clings to the gutter like a rat in garbage.
I can remember only one other scene in the entire 90-minute movie that made me laugh...
McCarthy ... is so busy trying to prove she doesn't take herself seriously that she undersells what is actually some serious comedic talent.
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.
When Carmen Electra as a ghetto body waxer is the highlight of your film, you've got trouble.
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
Facing up to such nasty, untidy realities of modern coupledom would have given Dirty Love some of the edge it aspires to, but seriously lacks.
There's a really good film in here kicking and screaming (and bleeding) to get out.
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