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Reviews Counted: 70
Fresh: 27
Rotten:43
Average Rating: 5/10
Consensus: The messy Pumpkin wastes its premise by not making the satire sharp enough.
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Christina Ricci stars as Carolyn McDuffy, a picture-perfect blonde sorority princess (reminiscent of Reese Witherspoon's perky LEGALLY BLONDE co-ed, Elle Woods) enjoying her senior year at Southern California State University.... [More]
Starring: Hank Harris, Christina Ricci, Brenda Blethyn, Marisa Coughlan
Director: Adam Larson Broder, Tony Abrams
Rambling and diffuse, this debut film vacillates between the Farrelly brotthers' gross-out comedy and a softer, kinder message film, an incoherent blend that proves frustrating and not particularly enjoyable either.
Like a grinning Jack O' Lantern, its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy, having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded.
Pumpkin is a movie that resists categorization, that manages wit, intelligence, audacity and pointed social commentary while still entertaining us with a terrifically bizarre combination of soapy, ultra-stylized satire and blackly comic fairytale.
Successfully blended satire, high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny movie.
Although there are many juicy supporting performances, Christina Ricci owns this movie. What a wonderful talent, and what a maddening, but enjoyable film.
One of the most uneven motion pictures that I've had the displeasure of sitting through over the past few years.
Christina Ricci comedy about sympathy, hypocrisy and love is a misfire.
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By halfway through this picture I was beginning to hate it, and, of course, feeling guilty for it.... Then, miracle of miracles, the movie does a flip-flop.
Though Harris is affecting at times, he cannot overcome the sense that Pumpkin is a mere plot pawn for two directors with far less endearing disabilities.
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A savage John Waters-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever quite falling over.
This low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the Farrelly brothers' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time.
Ricci's Carolyn is entrenched so in her small worldview, so surrounded by sameness, that as she opens her heart to Pumpkin it's entirely believable.
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