The Sweetest Thing 2002

Critics score:
26 / 100

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Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: A bunch of intermittently amusing sketches that collectively don't add up to much of a picture. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The Sweetest Thing wanders into such ironies and shoddily exploits them. The title is even a bad joke: This movie is to sweet as a dog is to a hydrant. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: If you laugh at this badly made recycled trash dump ... it may be because you are amused at seeing women doing the same revolting stuff men do, and being forced to suffer the very same consequences. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: A cheerfully twisted, energetic chick flick that simply does not waste time taking itself seriously. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: The Sweetest Thing has nothing insightful to say about relationships, and nothing funny to say about the singles scene. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Not so much a movie as an amiable collection of off-color vignettes. None of them soar, but some are well worth a giggle. Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: It's a shallow movie, to be sure, but it has this much in its favor: It's a shallow movie that wholeheartedly, even joyfully embraces the point of view of the three, um, babe-a-licious women at its center. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Not half-bad, thanks mostly to a cast that knows how to embrace juvenilia in the spirit of good, dirty fun. Read more

Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: Female characters should be allowed to engage in raunchy humor on the big screen; they already do on the small one with Sex and the City. But unlike that HBO series, The Sweetest Thing has no guts. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: For those who think that movies by the Farrelly brothers or Todd Solondz are the Mount Kilimanjaro of bad taste, it's time to grab your parka and goggles -- there's a new peak to climb. Read more

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: It's refreshing to see a girl-power movie that doesn't feel it has to prove anything. Read more

Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Lacks original humor. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A movie in which laughter and self-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn 'empowerment.' Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Though Cameron Diaz is cute, gangly and kooky, her gung-ho energy isn't enough to lift The Sweetest Thing into anything resembling a coherent comedy. Read more

David Ansen, Newsweek: Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Loses its sense of humor in a vat of failed jokes, twitchy acting, and general boorishness. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's deep-sixed by a compulsion to catalog every bodily fluids gag in There's Something About Mary and devise a parallel clone-gag. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: This picture is one of the flattest, stupidest, unfunniest sex comedies -- as well as one of the worst all-round pictures -- I've ever seen. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: At 87 minutes, The Sweetest Thing feels pumped up with air, with an extended end-credits sequence designed to stretch the movie to a respectable feature length. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Essentially a collection of bits -- and they're all naughty. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Though many of its grossest moments draw groans rather than guffaws, and a few yawns, Sweetest is occasionally and audaciously funny. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: Read more

Dennis Lim, Village Voice: Seems to have been assembled (at short notice, with blindfolds on) by people who have never seen any movies outside of Cameron Diaz vehicles. Read more