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Dirty Love

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Dirty Love reviews
9
3.0 User Score:

Overwhelming dislike

Based on 12 critic reviews
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Based on 82 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy  |  Romance

Written by: Jenny McCarthy

Directed by: John Mallory Asher

Release Date:
Theatrical: September 23, 2005
DVD: December 6, 2005

Running Time: 95 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for strong sexuality, crude humor, language and some drug use

Starring Jenny McCarthy, Carmen Electra, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Kam Heskin, Victor Webster, Lochlyn Munro, Kathy Griffin, and Jessica Collins

In the slapstick comedy Dirty Love, Jenny McCarthy is gorgeous, goofy and gross all at once in this hilarious take on one woman's chaotic quest for true love. (First Look Pictures Releasing)

What The Critics Said

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40

LA Weekly Mark Olsen

The sex-comedy-for-girls idea never quite takes off.

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38

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

The movie equivalent of a medical experiment gone horribly wrong and kept in a jar of formaldehyde as a warning to others: Comedy can be a deadly weapon in the wrong hands.

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25

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The lighting and makeup are exceptionally harsh; all the women look shockingly rough beneath their garish makeup.

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20

Variety Todd McCarthy

Few pretty actresses have so thoroughly discarded their vanity in an outright vanity piece as Jenny McCarthy does in Dirty Love, so it's unfortunate for her this exercise in comic self-abnegation, which she wrote for herself, falls so awfully flat.

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12

New York Post Kyle Smith

The rest of the cast is uniformly awful, including Carmen Electra and Kathy Griffin as a wacky medium who asks, "What do I look like? A comedian?" Not from where I'm sitting.

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10

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

Dirty Love offers a series of desperate would-be comic moments.

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10

Film Threat Rory L. Aronsky

Hollywood is definitely at its worst here and not the type of Hollywood which would dare to greenlight this; just Hollywood being portrayed on film.

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10

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

It will surely yield nominations for worst picture.

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0

The New York Times Stephen Holden

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

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0

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Dirty Love wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent.

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0

The Hollywood Reporter Richard James Havis

This banal comedy is filmmaking of the lowest order.

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0

Village Voice Mark Holcomb

A kind of "Sex and the City" for L.A. bottom-feeders awash in clichéd, self-loathing misogyny that would make Howard Stern flinch.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 3.0 (out of 10) based on 82 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jim T gave it a0:
These people giving it a 9 or a 10 - they are kidding us, right? Oh, it's bad.

Gleep W gave it a0:
One of the all time worsts. Of course I have not seen all the movies that have been made over the years, but I've seen quite a few. This worthless trash has to be the Worst that I've seen. How did this even get made? How did the suits at whatever studio this was made green light this? Ah, some questions may never be answered.

Corey D gave it a10:
This is seriously my favorite comedy...its a laugh out loud movie and Jenny is hilarious in it! i also thought Carmens roll was funny! i don't know why but my all time favorite part is the very beginning! i don't understand why the critics are so hard on it! its rare to get a genuine comedy!! two thumbs up from me!

Frank S gave it a1:
This was jaw dropping awful, so inept you would swear it was some rejected X rated sitcom frm the WB. Mostly women gave this a favorable rating, that is probably the most convincing reason of why a woman shouldn't be president.

Roxann A. gave it a9:
All the MALE critics slammed this movie. It's not a chick flick but it's definitely written from a female perspective. There are scenes that are so damn funny I was screaming out loud. To be honest I've never thought about Jenny McCarthy one way or the other so I didn't know what to expect when I tuned in. I absolutely love her now and this movie is way funnier than many so-called blockbuster films that only have one or two funny scenes in the entire movie. Every female should watch this and laugh their ass off. And for all those snotty NY reviewers- u can put it where the sun don't shine. Especially the Village Voice review, "A kind of "Sex and the City" for L.A. bottom-feeders awash in clichéd, self-loathing misogyny that would make Howard Stern flinch." You're kidding right? Howard Stern the King of misogyny ; and LA bottom feeders, u need to lighten up, u really missed the point. It's true that Carmen Electra's over the top performance almost ruined the movie for me; and a few scenes with Kam Heskin's were way too long and a bit annoying. But over all I have never seen a comedy quite like this one and I mean that in the best possible way. Jenny McCarthy is hysterical, this is a great popcorn flick.

Abby l gave it an8:
This movie was actually funny. I am really surprised at the terrible reviews it got from critics. Dirty Love was funny in all the right places.

Jonathan W. gave it a10:
Hilarious movie. One of my favorite comedy's and its not easy to get me voting for a movie. For all the critics with bad ratings for Jenny McCarthy's "Dirty Love", don't watch an R rated comedy with hopes of an Oscar performance.

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