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90So genuinely, viciously funny you can't help laughing -- even when you feel really bad about yourself for doing so.
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80Occasionally heavy-handed and overdone -- and scarcely free from a self-congratulatory tone -- this latest spoof is nonetheless lots of fun, clever and fearless, and loaded with wicked lines and touches.
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75One of the year's funniest acts of malice.
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63Allison Janney is tacky incarnate as Barkin's good-time gal pal. When she shows up, Drop Dead Gorgeous comes most to life. [23 July 1999, Life, p.12E]
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63Although the satire is biting and the tone is irreverent, Drop Dead Gorgeous lacks the killer script and top notch performances necessary to make this a wholly successful production.
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60The film sets a quirky tone and sustains it until a very bizarre and contrived ending.
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58The script starts repeating its best gags about halfway through, and the direction gets ever broader as it goes along until the film finally loses all effectiveness as satire.
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50The script must have been a funny read. It's the movie that somehow never achieves takeoff speed.
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It's not a winner and not quite a loser either. Like many a beauty contestant, it's glib instead of serious, stylish instead of substantial. Miss Universe, it could never be. Homecoming queen, maybe.
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40A mockumentary about small-town beauty pageants that's so confidently unfunny it's DOA.
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40Screenwriter Lona Williams doesn't seem to have gotten much beyond the petty absurdity of theme headdresses and ludicrous talent competitions.
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40An intermittently enjoyable bad movie that never knows when to stop.
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38Drop Dead Ugly is more like it.
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30The film means to be a darkly funny look at the perils of winning at all costs, but there's nothing dark and searching about its take.
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30Oddly enough, I'm enjoying the memory of these jokes more than I actually enjoyed watching the film.
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30Ironically, the filmmakers don't seem to realize that their movie is even shallower and sillier than its targets.
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25There may be better ways to waste your time than seeing this movie.
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25It should be renamed "Drop Dead Ghetto" and hauled off to the "Jerry Springer" hall of shame.
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25A cheap cut-glass tiara of a booby prize goes to Drop Dead Gorgeous for messing up so utterly.
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20It's like a cross between "Heathers" and "Waiting For Guffman," had those movies been made by morons, for morons, and the cinematic equivalent of cow-tipping, only less graceful.
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20A relatively pain-free, if brain-free, diversion.
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10Even sillier than it is cynical, Drop Dead Gorgeous is a tiresome tale.
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10Broad, obvious and thuddingly unfunny, Drop Dead Gorgeous makes almost every previous "mockumentary" look like a work of genius.
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10Drop Dead Gorgeous eventually shows that it doesn't like anybody -- in the movie or in the audience.
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10The crude humor in Drop Dead Gorgeous does not have a moral point to it. It's just crude.
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10Screenwriter Lona Williams and director Michael Patrick Jann spare no attempt to show characters at their zaniest, wackiest or most grotesque. The effect is disconcerting. Is this light comedy or dark satire? It ends up being neither.
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10With malice for all, Drop Dead Gorgeous isn't likely to win any popularity contests.
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0This biting parody of flyover-state beauty contests feels like a bad made-for-TV movie of the week.
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carlonapobeck9A really funny and uniqe movie!
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bethstahler10Totally awesome....I almost wet my pants.
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SteveK.10