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Dirty Love
First Look Pictures Releasing

Dirty Love reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 9 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
3.0 out of 10
based on 12 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for strong sexuality, crude humor, language and some drug use

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

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)


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Romance  
WRITTEN BY: Jenny McCarthy  
DIRECTED BY: John Mallory Asher  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: December 6, 2005 
Video: December 6, 2005 
Theatrical: September 23, 2005 
RUNNING TIME: 95 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 3.0 (out of 10) based on 80 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Roxann A. gave it a9:
All the MALE critics slammed this movie. It's not a chick flick but it's definitely written from a female perspective. There are scenes that are so damn funny I was screaming out loud. To be honest I've never thought about Jenny McCarthy one way or the other so I didn't know what to expect when I tuned in. I absolutely love her now and this movie is way funnier than many so-called blockbuster films that only have one or two funny scenes in the entire movie. Every female should watch this and laugh their ass off. And for all those snotty NY reviewers- u can put it where the sun don't shine. Especially the Village Voice review, "A kind of "Sex and the City" for L.A. bottom-feeders awash in clichéd, self-loathing misogyny that would make Howard Stern flinch." You're kidding right? Howard Stern the King of misogyny ; and LA bottom feeders, u need to lighten up, u really missed the point. It's true that Carmen Electra's over the top performance almost ruined the movie for me; and a few scenes with Kam Heskin's were way too long and a bit annoying. But over all I have never seen a comedy quite like this one and I mean that in the best possible way. Jenny McCarthy is hysterical, this is a great popcorn flick.

Abby l gave it an8:
This movie was actually funny. I am really surprised at the terrible reviews it got from critics. Dirty Love was funny in all the right places.

Jonathan W. gave it a10:
Hilarious movie. One of my favorite comedy's and its not easy to get me voting for a movie. For all the critics with bad ratings for Jenny McCarthy's "Dirty Love", don't watch an R rated comedy with hopes of an Oscar performance.

Angela M. gave it a10:
Best movie I have seen in a long time. LAUGH OUT LOUD FUNNY - I thought Jenny McCarthy was fantastic--well done!

Mlelissa G. gave it a10:
this movie was so funny loved it.

Jill D. gave it a10:
everybody who voted for this as "bad" and "embarrassing" don't have a sense of humor. This is a funny movie. And Jenny and Carmen were awesome in it.

Thomas H. gave it a9:
Very funny movie! Jenny and John did a good job stepping out on this one, and hope they do more. Also, gota say Carmen surprised me in this movie, I was floored with her performance.

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