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Love Stinks
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Love Stinks reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 23 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.5 out of 10
based on 23 reviews
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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  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: February 1, 2000 
Video: February 1, 2000 
Theatrical: September 10, 1999 
RUNNING TIME: 94 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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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.
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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.
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50
New York Post Rod Dreher
A lame TV sitcom with big-screen ambition that's almost touching in its hopelessness.
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40
The New York Times Anita Gates
A one-dimensional comedy that mostly falls flat.
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38
Boston Globe Cate McQuaid
It would have done better to go straight to video, where it belongs.
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38
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Not just unromantic, it's unfunny, too.
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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.
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30
Austin Chronicle Sarah Hepola
Another frivolous product of whiny male anxiety that's as funny as a sitcom but longer and more expensive.
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30
Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour
Low comedy doesn't get any lower than Love Stinks.
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30
Film.com Robert Horton
A gyno-phobic fantasy about the date who won't go away.
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30
Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
Exploits all the cliches about shrewish women and pussy-whipped men without achieving satire.
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29
Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson
A drearily over-cynical farce.
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25
Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday
Lowbrow humor is one thing...but Love Stinks sinks the bar beyond comprehension.
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25
San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
There's gangsta rap with funnier insights into the opposite sex.
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25
Portland Oregonian Other (Specify)
Whatever stinks in this theater, it isn't love.
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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.
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20
Film.com Tom Keogh
A painfully unfunny movie.
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20
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Has a sour undertone that strangles its cheap laughs.
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16
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
An awful, misanthropic, deadly unfunny and badly acted war-of-the-sexes travesty.
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10
Washington Post Desson Thomson
This movie reeks, stinks, smells and destroys life as we know it with one olfactory destructive blast.
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0
Chicago Tribune Barbara Shulgasser
Stewart's insistently ironic delivery of every line becomes an irritant in a movie that is already monstrously irritating.
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0
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Rancid, misogynist comedy.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 8 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!

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