Though Cameron Diaz is cute, gangly and kooky, her gung-ho energy isn't enough to lift The Sweetest Thing into anything resembling a coherent comedy.
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04/12/02
The Sweetest Thing (2002)
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Reviews Counted:104
Fresh:26
Rotten:78
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: A collection of hit-or-miss gags tied together by a thin plot.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Where can a girl who is usually the heartbreaker find the perfect guy? For Christina Walters (Cameron Diaz), the answer is the San Francisco nightclub where she meets Peter Donahue (Thomas Jane).... [More]
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Selma Blair, Thomas Jane
Director: Roger Kumble
Reviews for The Sweetest Thing
It's deep-sixed by a compulsion to catalog every bodily fluids gag in There's Something About Mary and devise a parallel clone-gag.
04/12/02
Top CriticA second-rate recycling of any number of recent lowbrow comedy flicks.
04/12/02
The jokes get less and less clever and the whole show loses its zip once the script gives Peter more screen time.
04/11/02
The film has has the trappings of your typical chick flick, with the requisite female bonding and pop-ditty soundtrack. But the unexceptional story is dotted with enough moments of sheer hilarity to set it just above its estrogen-oozing ilk.
04/11/02
The Sweetest Thing, a romantic comedy with outrageous tendencies, may be a mess in a lot of ways. But it does have one saving grace. A lot of its gags and observations reflect a woman's point-of-view.
04/11/02
For those who think that movies by the Farrelly brothers or Todd Solondz are the Mount Kilimanjaro of bad taste, it's time to grab your parka and goggles -- there's a new peak to climb.
04/11/02
Top CriticNot everything works, but the average is higher than in Mary and most other recent comedies.
04/11/02
It's refreshing to see a girl-power movie that doesn't feel it has to prove anything.
04/11/02
The movie goes for Farrelly brothers gross and grosser over-the-top humor but never lets off the gas. The result is a nonstop barrage of Aren't We Clever 'jokes' that aren't so clever.
04/11/02
Top CriticIf you laugh at this badly made recycled trash dump ... it may be because you are amused at seeing women doing the same revolting stuff men do, and being forced to suffer the very same consequences.
04/11/02
Not half-bad, thanks mostly to a cast that knows how to embrace juvenilia in the spirit of good, dirty fun.
04/11/02
Calling this grab bag of sex skits, pop psychobabble and even a self-announced 'movie montage' sequence a movie is stretching the definition.
04/11/02
This isn't your mother's chick flick -- unless your mother is an Adam Sandler fan, because this is an Adam Sandler movie from the girl's point of view.
04/11/02
Despite its title, seems at heart a sour, misanthropic mixture of sexual grossness and slapstick.
04/11/02
None of this is meaningful or memorable, but frosting isn't, either, and you wouldn't turn down a big bowl of that, would you?
04/11/02
Perhaps the raunchy comedy The Sweetest Thing is some sort of penance we must pay for the groundbreaking experience of Sex and the City.
04/11/02
The Sweetest Thing is expressly for idiots who don't care what kind of sewage they shovel into their mental gullets to simulate sustenance.
04/11/02
A movie in which laughter and self-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn 'empowerment.'
04/11/02
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