The Sweetest Thing
When it comes to dating, Christina Walters has a golden rule: avoid searching for Mr. Right and focus on Mr. Right Now. She then finds she is forced to educate herself on the etiquette of wooing the opposite sex when she finally meets Mr. Right.
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
30 December 1978, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
26 February 1974, Marion, Ohio, USA
23 June 1972, Southfield, Michigan, USA
10 September 1969, Edgewood, Maryland, USA
4 December 1946, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
December 29, 2010
Extremely lowbrow -- definitely not for kids.
June 25, 2004
Call it a younger, West Coast cousin to Sex and the City, or There's Something About Mary from the woman's point of view.
April 16, 2002
Seems to have been assembled (at short notice, with blindfolds on) by people who have never seen any movies outside of Cameron Diaz vehicles.
February 08, 2003
...Mixes smut and wacky girlfriend antics in equal parts, often scoring the guilty chuckle in spite of itself, with plenty of bra-and-panty shots to please the guys.
April 15, 2002
The Sweetest Thing has nothing insightful to say about relationships, and nothing funny to say about the singles scene.
April 26, 2002
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.
April 12, 2002
Bound to appeal to women looking for a howlingly trashy time.
April 16, 2002
Loses its sense of humor in a vat of failed jokes, twitchy acting, and general boorishness.
September 23, 2007
It's not great or inspired by any means, but it's cute and amusing enough.
January 13, 2003
Just when you think it's going to be a sappy chick flick, The Sweetest Thing surprises with a lewd joke or half-naked girl.
July 20, 2002
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.
February 13, 2004
If a date suggests the two of you should go and see this film dump them.
