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45
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Sweetest Thing, The
Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong sexual content and language
Starring
Cameron Diaz,
Christina Applegate,
Thomas Jane,
Selma Blair,
Parker Posey,
Jason Bateman,
Damon Williams,
and
Johnathon Schaech
A romantic comedy without the sugar, The Sweetest Thing is a fresh twist on the search for love. (Columbia Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Nancy Pimental
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Roger Kumble
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 20, 2002
Video: August 20, 2002
Theatrical: April 12, 2002
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
84 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
That cameraderie is bound to appeal to women looking for a howlingly trashy time.

75
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Its effects don't linger long enough to seriously detract from the raunchy good time had by all.
75
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
It's an extremely raunchy hybrid of "Bridget Jones's Diary."

70
Los Angeles Times
John Anderson
The trick is getting from a conclusion made five minutes into a movie to an ending 90 minutes away. It can be a scary prospect. In The Sweetest Thing it is mostly a hoot.

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
This movie is to sweet as a dog is to a hydrant. But it's little things like that that keep someone like Diaz laughing all the way to the urinal.

60
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The movie is neither good nor bad, but in its clever packaging of boy fantasy and girl fantasy, extremely cunning. As for Princess Diaz, no force on Earth can stop her now.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A movie in which laughter and self-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn ''empowerment.''

50
Time
Richard Corliss
Randy and giggly, this is a femme version of "The Man Show."

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Pimenthal's script consists of the scantiest storyline, framed around a succession of strained Farrelly Brothers-style gags that feel as though they were peeled off the floor of the editing room for "There's Something About Mary."

50
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Aspires to be a cinematic "Sex and the City," but it's more like South Park Goes West.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
You walk away wishing they had more than this scant and often shoddy material with which to enjoy their rollicking and racy good time.

40
Variety
Robert Koehler
A comedy that starts the date in a frisky mood but sours before it's time to kiss goodnight.

38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The ads for The Sweetest Thing promise that if you loved "There's Something About Mary" and "My Best Friend's Wedding," then you can't miss this latest Cameron Diaz vehicle. Well, miss it.

38
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
An awkward hybrid of genres that just doesn't work.

38
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Has some promise as a throw-away, lighthearted romance. Unfortunately, once those elements are gone, what's left only has a running time of about 13 minutes.

38
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It knows the words but not the music; while the Farrelly brothers got away with murder, The Sweetest Thing commits suicide.

38
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
Lacks the meanness of so many recent gross-out comedies. With the sparkling Diaz leading the way, the lame humor is much more palatable.

30
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The film is far too appreciative of its own jokes to let the audience discover anything on its own.

30
Newsweek
David Ansen
Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate and Selma Blair are asked to humiliate themselves many times over in The Sweetest Thing, and they do it with such game good spirits that they ought to get the actors equivalent of a Purple Heart.
30
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Diaz does what she can under adverse circumstances, but she doesn't come close to salvaging this ramshackle vehicle.

30
Film Threat
Michael Dequina
A sour attempt at making a Farrelly Brothers-style, down-and-dirty laugher for the female set.

30
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Christina Applegate, of Eighties white-trash pinup fame, is a comic foil par excellence, delivering a snazzy, self-assured performance that lands the biggest laughs in a movie made mostly of hollow chuckles. She, in fact, is the sweetest thing in this sour, sucky film.

25
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Garners only a few chuckles, becoming, even in its short running time, boring.

25
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
This vulgar, equal-opportunity chick flick aims pretty low.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Nothing but a showcase for the inherent comedic gifts of Cameron Diaz. The problem is she doesn't have any.

20
TV Guide
Steve Simels
It's hard to overstate just how awful this movie is, despite the efforts of the appealing cast.

10
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
After about 20 minutes of "Thing," a concussion begins to look enormously appealing.

10
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
So badly written, so poorly directed and performed, and so garishly visualized -- attention Kmart shoppers! -- it defies explanation.

0
New Times (L.A.)
Robert Wilonsky
The dumbest thing this side of a lobotomy.

0
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
One of the cruddiest-looking movies ever made.


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