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38It knows the words but not the music; while the Farrelly brothers got away with murder, The Sweetest Thing commits suicide.
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38Lacks the meanness of so many recent gross-out comedies. With the sparkling Diaz leading the way, the lame humor is much more palatable.
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38An awkward hybrid of genres that just doesn't work.
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38The 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.
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38Has 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.
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30A sour attempt at making a Farrelly Brothers-style, down-and-dirty laugher for the female set.
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30Christina 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.
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30Diaz does what she can under adverse circumstances, but she doesn't come close to salvaging this ramshackle vehicle.
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30Cameron 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 actor’s equivalent of a Purple Heart.
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30The film is far too appreciative of its own jokes to let the audience discover anything on its own.
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25This vulgar, equal-opportunity chick flick aims pretty low.
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25Nothing but a showcase for the inherent comedic gifts of Cameron Diaz. The problem is she doesn't have any.
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25Garners only a few chuckles, becoming, even in its short running time, boring.
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20It's hard to overstate just how awful this movie is, despite the efforts of the appealing cast.
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10So badly written, so poorly directed and performed, and so garishly visualized -- attention Kmart shoppers! -- it defies explanation.
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10After about 20 minutes of "Thing," a concussion begins to look enormously appealing.
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0One of the cruddiest-looking movies ever made.
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0The dumbest thing this side of a lobotomy.