Metacritic Film

Dirty Love

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

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

First Look Pictures Releasing
Comedy  |  Romance
95 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters September 23, 2005

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)

WRITTEN BY
Jenny McCarthy

DIRECTED BY
John Mallory Asher

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

9 / 100

Critic Reviews

40 LA Weekly
The sex-comedy-for-girls idea never quite takes off.
38 New York Daily News
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.
25 TV Guide
The lighting and makeup are exceptionally harsh; all the women look shockingly rough beneath their garish makeup.
20 Variety
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.
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.
10 The Onion (A.V. Club)
Dirty Love offers a series of desperate would-be comic moments.
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.
10 Los Angeles Times
It will surely yield nominations for worst picture.
0 The New York Times
Even by the standards of its bottom-feeding genre, Dirty Love clings to the gutter like a rat in garbage.
0 Chicago Sun-Times
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.
0 The Hollywood Reporter
This banal comedy is filmmaking of the lowest order.
0 Village Voice
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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