JohnHowardReid A slapstick comedy for those who prefer their slapstick in poor taste. Admittedly, the funniest sequence is that with Charlie Dell as the delightfully fazed Christian priest who attempts to tie the knot in the wedding scene. But come on, boys, play fair! What's the name of the Hollywood movie in which a likably cute but totally ineffectual Jewish rabbi is set up and satirized? Maybe I'm wrong, but off hand, I can't think of any such scenes in any Hollywood movies at all, although there are such interludes in German and Russian movies of the 1930s and early 1940s. However, getting back to The Sweetest Thing, the movie tends to focus all its attention on the ladies. Like the minister, the men are all ineffectual and make little impression. In fact, the movie is virtually an extension of locked-in-the-toilet gags that mostly vary from sickening to indigestible. The Columbia DVD describes the movie as a totally fresh twist. What rubbish! Toilet gags have been with us since at least 5,000 B.C.

Troy Putland There's nothing sweet about this thing. This movie is derogatory to women. Cameron Diaz is part of a hapless trio of single women who're looking for Mr. Right Now, rather than Mr. Right. They're a bad influence on their viewers. Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate float their way through a loose. mediocre storyline; a trip to see Diaz's (potential) love of her life, and once and for all grow up. Silly, cumbersome acts are played out, including Diaz getting someone's junk in the eye, Blair ending up with a (particular) piercing stuck between her teeth and the three of them pretending to orgasm in a restaurant, which then turns in to a cabaret act. None of this drives the storyline, but instead furthers their incomprehensible attitude towards life in their 30's. Ridiculous.

Maynard Handley I confess to a weakness for what some might call stupid comedies --- American Pie, Dumb and Dumber, There's Something about Mary. However I found this movie mostly disappointing and don't agree with the comments that it's a female version of those classics. I think it fails because it tries too hard and makes the trying very obvious. All the way through, the characters (especially the Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate characters, Selma Blair not so much) are constantly trying to appear and act "wacky". It's irritating as hell, and leads you to despise the characters rather than feel empathy for them. I assume this is not the actresses faults --- Ms Diaz obviously did her job well in There's Something about Mary, while Ms Applegate handled years on Married with Children --- so I'm guessing either the director or the writer didn't have much confidence in the material and felt it necessary to add a layer of (non-amusing) idiocy. To me it felt like one of the bad Adam Sandler comedies or the bad Rob Schneider comedies or the bad (ie all of them!) Pauly Shore comedies, which also devolve into "irritating characters acting wacky" because there's not enough decent comedic material there to sustain the movie. If you want a girl's comedy done right, I'd recommend you stick with Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, rather than persisting with this through some sort of misplaced female solidarity. The three or so genuinely funny scenes don't justify the rest of the movie. It wasn't AWFUL, as a comedy, but it just wasn't as great as people are claiming.

rooprect "The Sweetest Thing" is an ofttimes lewd, crude, socially unacceptable, mindless romp featuring a bunch of characters whose lives are ruled by raging hormones. But with a very cool twist: they're women.Since the dawn of time (or at least the 80s), we've been barraged with crass sex comedies, almost all of which are aimed at 16-24 year old males. "Porky's", "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", "Bachelor Party", "American Pie" ...and those are just the classics. Here we have a film that is every bit as vapid and morally bankrupt, but with the deliciously novel approach of being from the late-20s female perspective.Ladies, this is your chance to get even. Gents, this is your chance to see what really goes on during "girl's night out" ...or at least what goes on according to a slightly demented mind (that of writer Nancy Pimental who wrote 63 episodes of South Park if that's any indication). Let me put it this way: I'm a guy who thought he had a moderately wild & crazy youth, but this made me feel like I've been living in Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. Kazowie! I found myself constantly thinking, "Did I just see that??"Although there's no explicit nudity, be prepared to see every possible suggestion of explicit sex in very funny ways. And I don't care what anyone says, the "stain on the dress" scene is a classic, as is the ...um, well, the scene where someone gets poked in the eyeball (and it ain't with a finger neither). These scenes, and others, are just so over-the-top ridiculous, it's as if "Sex and the City" got drunk and hooked up with "Airplane!" and this is their illegitimate offspring. Really, this movie doesn't just push the envelope, it bumps & grinds that envelope and fills it with bodily fluids.The story, believe it or not, is pretty interesting as a romcom and packs some good plot elements and a good twist or two. Cameron Diaz plays a "party girl" who starts thinking about settling down. Or is she just chasing after what every party girl wants: the impossible? Christina Applegate plays her "wing man" while Selma Blair plays the "quiet one" completing a brilliant comedic trio.I have to admit, after the initial shock wore off, I really enjoyed this movie. It reminded me of something I once read on Urban Dictionary: "the definition of a slut - a woman with the morals of a man!" Touché.