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Love Stinks
Independent Artists
MPAA 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)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Jeff Franklin
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Jeff Franklin
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 1, 2000
Video: February 1, 2000
Theatrical: September 10, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
94 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
63
Miami Herald
Phoebe Flowers
A sporadically hilarious, acid-tongued romp through the darker sides of romance that refuses to back down.
50
LA Weekly
John Patterson
There's more than a hint of self-pitying male-castration fantasy in writer-director Jeff Franklin's portrayal.

50
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.

50
New York Post
Rod Dreher
A lame TV sitcom with big-screen ambition that's almost touching in its hopelessness.

40
The New York Times
Anita Gates
A one-dimensional comedy that mostly falls flat.

38
Boston Globe
Cate McQuaid
It would have done better to go straight to video, where it belongs.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Not just unromantic, it's unfunny, too.

38
USA Today
Staff [Not Credited]
Love Stinks is what bad network TV comedy would be like if there were no censorship and less talent.

30
Austin Chronicle
Sarah Hepola
Another frivolous product of whiny male anxiety that's as funny as a sitcom but longer and more expensive.

30
Los Angeles Times
Gene Seymour
Low comedy doesn't get any lower than Love Stinks.

30
Film.com
Robert Horton
A gyno-phobic fantasy about the date who won't go away.

30
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Exploits all the cliches about shrewish women and pussy-whipped men without achieving satire.

29
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
A drearily over-cynical farce.

25
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
Lowbrow humor is one thing...but Love Stinks sinks the bar beyond comprehension.

25
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
There's gangsta rap with funnier insights into the opposite sex.

25
Portland Oregonian
Other (Specify)
Whatever stinks in this theater, it isn't love.

20
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.

20
Film.com
Tom Keogh
A painfully unfunny movie.

20
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Has a sour undertone that strangles its cheap laughs.

16
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
An awful, misanthropic, deadly unfunny and badly acted war-of-the-sexes travesty.

10
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
This movie reeks, stinks, smells and destroys life as we know it with one olfactory destructive blast.

0
Chicago Tribune
Barbara Shulgasser
Stewart's insistently ironic delivery of every line becomes an irritant in a movie that is already monstrously irritating.

0
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Rancid, misogynist comedy.


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