Metacritic Film

Whipped

Starring Amanda Peet, Brian Van Holt, Judah Domke, and Jonathan Abrahams

MPAA RATING: R for strong sexual content and language

Destination Films
Comedy
82 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters September 1, 2000

Every Sunday a group of friends get together to discuss their woman-chasing escapades. One week they discover that they are all picking up on the same girl.

WRITTEN BY
Peter M. Cohen

DIRECTED BY
Peter M. Cohen

Overall Metascore

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

10 / 100

Critic Reviews

63 New York Post
Initially amusing but finally sour sex comedy.
50 Chicago Tribune
A decent idea that never goes deep enough for genuine satisfaction.
40 Rolling Stone
Peet does it with a twinkle, finding class among the crass.
38 Philadelphia Inquirer
Lewd, crude, blessedly brief.
38 USA Today
A cynical sex comedy that manages to be infantile and jaded at the same time.
30 TV Guide
A misconceived roundelay that crosses the thin line dividing gross-but-funny from just plain gross.
25 San Francisco Chronicle
Ugly. ..and unpleasant -- and clueless on a grand scale.
25 Boston Globe
A crass, witless knockoff of better films.
20 Chicago Reader
This gross sex farce actually has a point, though about half the population won't like what it is.
16 Portland Oregonian David Germain
A caustic, raunchy, often hilarious examination of how men use women.
11 Austin Chronicle
I was consistently aghast at how unabashedly alpha-male, heartless, and chauvinistic this film is.
10 Dallas Observer
Hang out at a frat house or sports bar, and you can hear this kind of talk for free.
10 Village Voice
If all-out headache-nausea-braindeath is what you crave, Whipped's available.
10 Washington Post
Puerile bluster.
10 Variety
Grotesquely smutty and obnoxiously overbearing, this is a pitiful excuse for a comedy.
10 Los Angeles Times
Way too bleak to be funny, even as a contemporary satire of the battle of the sexes.
10 Film.com
This movie has straight-to-video written all over it.
1 Mr. Showbiz
Whipped is cinematic suicide, if not for actor, then certainly for audience.
0 San Francisco Examiner
Breaks new ground both as an abominable enterprise in guy-talk and as no-budget hackwork.
0 LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
As repellent as their characters are, one feels a degree of pity for the three male leads, who give fresh evidence that hungry actors can't say no to a studio feature, no matter how humiliating the script.
0 Film.com
We're forced to listen to misogynistic rantings devoid of wit, entertainment value, or even authenticity.
0 New York Daily News
Profoundly depressing.
0 Entertainment Weekly
The trouble with Whipped isn't that its characters are dirty mouthed horndog jerks -- it's that they're phony dirty mouthed horndog jerks.
0 TNT RoughCut
Its film school aesthetics and sophomoric storytelling are sense-deadening.
0 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Perhaps there is a more excruciatingly painful and self-abusive way to spend 82 minutes. But I honestly can't think of what it would be.
0 The New York Times
Bottom-feeding monstrosity of a comedy.

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