| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Not a great, breakout comedy, but more the kind of movie that might eventually become a regular on the midnight cult circuit.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
This is one light comedy whose seriousness, hours later, lingers in the mind.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
As a ditz who's just smart enough to know something isn't right, Lyonne blends hyperbole and sincerity in perfect proportions.
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| 70 |
Village Voice
Not as skillful, subtle, or hilarious as "Some Like It Hot," but its anti-essentialism vis-à-vis gender roles is just as sharp and exhilarating.
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| 63 |
San Francisco Examiner
It's the year's funniest, most absurd sight gag.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
Amusing and good-natured, but necessarily thin.
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| 60 |
The New York Times
So campy it reflexively sends an elbow to its own ribs.
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| 58 |
Portland Oregonian
Though no classic, the concept is a clever one.
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Disarmingly funny in its own naive way.
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| 50 |
New York Post
There is probably an amusing movie to be made about camps that try to "rehabilitate" homosexuals - but this thuddingly stupid satire isn't it.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Most of the film's imagination and energy seem to have gone into the clever casting and flamboyant costume and set design.
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| 50 |
Rolling Stone
Too limp to deliver.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
Monica Eng
Certainly no comedic masterpiece, but it does offer a few fine moments of biting satire.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
As featherweight as its title, but Lyonne gives a winning performance and the mischievous story packs a few good laughs.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
Rises above its problems to deliver the essential goods.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
The opening moments of -- are some of the funniest --the rest of the movie beats you over the head with jokes, and though funny in parts, it's never this smart again.
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| 38 |
Baltimore Sun
Tries to be both poignant and wicked, and succeeds at neither.
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| 38 |
Boston Globe
It's a lame and painfully overextended satire of homophobia.
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| 38 |
Charlotte Observer
A fairy tale full of fascist, Bible-thumping straights, self-deluded and pathetic gay people who deny their impulses, and two honest lesbians who triumph.
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| 30 |
Mr. Showbiz
Limp satire isn't worthy of its good intentions.
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| 30 |
Slate
So sniggeringly one-sided that the picture has no tension.
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| 30 |
Salon.com
Even with the outlandish characters, gaudy colors and gay satire, this smug John Waters knockoff can't stand up to the real thing.
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| 30 |
Variety
A shallow, only mildly entertaining satire
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
Tedious and trite.
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| 25 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Repetitive and tedious.
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| 20 |
Los Angeles Times
Works against its goals.
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| 20 |
Washington Post
Relentlessly offensive.
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| 20 |
Dallas Observer
David Ehrenstein
Many of the most absurd things on view in this film are absolutely true.
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| 20 |
Film.com
Lyonne, as usual, does her best...but she's running uphill.
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| 0 |
Entertainment Weekly
Poisonously smug, one-joke indie comedy.
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