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Love Stinks
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 23 critic reviews
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Based on 10 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by: Jeff Franklin
Directed by: Jeff Franklin
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 10, 1999
DVD: February 1, 2000
Running Time: 94 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for language and sexual content
Starring French Stewart, Bridgette Wilson, Bill Bellamy, and Tyra Banks
Boy meets girl, boy gets girl ... and then can't get rid of her no matter how hard he tries. (Independent Artists)
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What The Critics Said
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Miami Herald Phoebe Flowers
A sporadically hilarious, acid-tongued romp through the darker sides of romance that refuses to back down.
LA Weekly John Patterson
There's more than a hint of self-pitying male-castration fantasy in writer-director Jeff Franklin's portrayal.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
A mean-spirited comedy...that steals the rampaging-psycho-chick formula from ``Fatal Attraction'' and tries to make it funny.
Read Full Review >New York Post Rod Dreher
A lame TV sitcom with big-screen ambition that's almost touching in its hopelessness.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Cate McQuaid
It would have done better to go straight to video, where it belongs.
Read Full Review >USA Today Staff [Not Credited]
Love Stinks is what bad network TV comedy would be like if there were no censorship and less talent.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Sarah Hepola
Another frivolous product of whiny male anxiety that's as funny as a sitcom but longer and more expensive.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour
Low comedy doesn't get any lower than Love Stinks.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
Exploits all the cliches about shrewish women and pussy-whipped men without achieving satire.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday
Lowbrow humor is one thing...but Love Stinks sinks the bar beyond comprehension.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
There's gangsta rap with funnier insights into the opposite sex.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Other (Specify)
Whatever stinks in this theater, it isn't love.
Read Full Review >Variety Robert Koehler
Lacks the comic style or abandon to make its cynical turn on male-female relationships anything more than a short-lived stunt.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
An awful, misanthropic, deadly unfunny and badly acted war-of-the-sexes travesty.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
This movie reeks, stinks, smells and destroys life as we know it with one olfactory destructive blast.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Barbara Shulgasser
Stewart's insistently ironic delivery of every line becomes an irritant in a movie that is already monstrously irritating.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.9 (out of 10) based on 10 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Janelle O. gave it a10:
Hysterical! Watch it all the time... love this movie!
K. G. gave it a 9:
I watched this movie 3 times since I rented it! Unlike most movies billed as funny, this one WAS actually funny, so much so that I laughed out loud several times. Ignore the critics and enjoy!
Andy R. gave it a 10:
This movie was the funniest thing I have ever seen. What in hell are those critics talking about?!? I laughed out loud for like half of the movie.
Kayley gave it an 8:
I found it to have many laugh out loud lines! It was definitely worth seeing. In fact I rented it recently to make my husband watch it.
John gave it a 6:
A good movie. very funny. not the best, but better than a lot.
E. H. gave it a 10:
Great movie.
Mr P. gave it a 10:
This movie was GREAT! Critics just don't get comedy!
