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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
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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

It’s simply a showcase for actors trying to make it somehow by presuming they can overdo it and people will notice.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
09/13/05
Rory L. Aronsky
Rory L. Aronsky
Film Threat

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

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

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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Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
09/22/05
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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An hour and a half of uninspired dreck.

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

This banal comedy is filmmaking of the lowest order.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
09/16/05
Richard James Havis
Richard James Havis
Hollywood Reporter
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Excruciatingly inept.

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

Even by the standards of its bottom-feeding genre, Dirty Love clings to the gutter like a rat in garbage.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
09/23/05
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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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
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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)

Falls so awfully flat.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
04/02/05
Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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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

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

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

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.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
09/22/05
Mark Olsen
Mark Olsen
L.A. Weekly

There's a really good film in here kicking and screaming (and bleeding) to get out.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
02/01/05
Oz
Oz
eFilmCritic.com

The lowlights are many.

Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment Comment
09/19/05
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
 
 
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Latest News for Dirty Love

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