Love Stinks is such a paean to television, it would have done better to go straight to video, where it belongs.
Love Stinks (1999)
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Reviews Counted:47
Fresh:9
Rotten:38
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: This one-dimensional comedy with recycled laughs will have you holding your nose.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Seth Winnick has it all -- a successful career in television, good friends, and a passionate relationship with the beautiful Chelsea Turner. However, when he fails to make a timely marriage... Seth Winnick has it all -- a successful career in television, good friends, and a passionate relationship with the beautiful Chelsea Turner. However, when he fails to make a timely marriage proposal, Chelsea behaves as is she has been bitten by a rapid squirrel. The two redirect their passion into malice and forge a sordid "anti-relationship," replacing love and tenderness with vengeance and venom, which fuels a series of bids to out do the other with acts of cruelty. This unromantic comedy features cameos by Jason Bateman, Christian Slater, and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen. [More]
Starring: French Stewart, Bridgette Wilson, Tyra Banks, Bill Bellamy
Starring: French Stewart, Bridgette Wilson, Tyra Banks, Bill Bellamy, Jason Bateman, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Steve Hytner, Shana Moakler, Christian Slater
Director: Jeff Franklin
Director: Jeff Franklin
Screenwriter: Jeff Franklin
Producer: Craig Baumgarten
Composer: Bennett Salvay
Reviews for Love Stinks
Love Stinks can make you feel good, especially if you've been involved in a bad relationship.
They called it right: this movie reeks, stinks, smells and destroys life as we know it with one olfactory destructive blast.
Franklin has a certain talent for one-liners -- which Stewart delivers with rat-a-tat precision -- but the result is a spiteful movie that savors its own venom a little too well.
The film breaks every rule of the romantic comedy and does it with such glee that even when a gag is fully predictable it's still entertaining.
While the film bills itself as an unromantic comedy, the truth is that it's an unromantic un-comedy.
Sometimes it stinks with the sweat of failure. But sometimes it's as bitterly funny as its makers could hope.
The bad smell emanating from this unsavory comedy simply means it's dead on arrival, is beyond resuscitation and is already quite putrid.
Franklin relies too much on easy laugh-getters such as flatulence and crotch-kick gags, but at least he does provide his half-baked script with a fairly satisfying wrap-up.
Holy mother of the bride, what bile was Jeff Franklin drinking when he came up with this curdled revenge fantasy?
Sure, women with wedlock on the brain and men led around by their private parts are good for a chuckle, but only if you have something witty or perceptive to say about them.
A cut-rate romantic comedy of the kind that Adam Sandler would star in if his movies made no money.
A sitcom episode stretched to fit, with raunch and language added for shock effect and cheap laughs.
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