The Sweetest Thing
2002 Directed by Roger Kumble
Synopsis
Christina, one of three party loving girls accidentally meets Mr. Right in stead of Mr. Right Now, after missing her chance she and Courtney take a trip to track him down so she can discover love.
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The sweetest thing happened to me recently. I was playing D&D with some buds when one of my childhood friends who I hadn't seen in years just popped in. She was touring the area with her family, scouting for colleges. So we put our goblin-slaying on hold and she and I chatted about memories and got all blubbery from nostalgia. Then when they were about to leave, she was like "Do you hug people or are you...do you not do that" and I was like "I hug people sometimes" and she was like "That's the sweetest thing" and then we hugged.
Fast forward a couple hours. Our D&Ding is done and I am still trying to recover from the overload…
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Irredeemably bad
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Too big to fit in here.
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Sometimes funny but probably the stupidest movie ever made.
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The sweetest thing happened to me recently. I was playing D&D with some buds when one of my childhood friends who I hadn't seen in years just popped in. She was touring the area with her family, scouting for colleges. So we put our goblin-slaying on hold and she and I chatted about memories and got all blubbery from nostalgia. Then when they were about to leave, she was like "Do you hug people or are you...do you not do that" and I was like "I hug people sometimes" and she was like "That's the sweetest thing" and then we hugged.
Fast forward a couple hours. Our D&Ding is done and I am still trying to recover from the overload…
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bad
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Irredeemably bad
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Too big to fit in here.
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Why did I watch this again.... good question
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Hatched with "the formula to end all formulas", Roger Kumble's The Sweetest Thing painfully reaches into every successful female-themed film (and its respective genre) and adds a thin coat of its own half-baked, sub-Farrelly Bros. gross-out nectar, spawning what I could only call an incoherent mess. (Secretly regarded as a shameless candidate for the worst film I've seen since The Next Best Thing.) Selma Blair's character appears to have been transplanted directly from Cruel Intentions and allowed much less than the bare minimum of character development. The first act doesn't have a single scene that leads fluidly into the next scene, a mis-timed road movie is the second act and a string of abrupt, undeserved narrative shifts stand in for a third act (imagine deciphering the content that slips by as you channel surf).
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Jason Bateman at his beardiest.
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underrated. hilarious. love it.
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So unfunny. Tries to be a raunchy comedy (but for the girls!) and absolutely fails.