An average movie

I don’t know why exactly but, somehow, I was rather eager to re-watch this flick. Cameron Diaz has tried a couple of times to become the Queen of the R rated comedy but this movie displays why she has never really succeeded. I mean, the material was pretty good, there was a really nice cast (Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Selma Blair, Thomas Jane, Jason Bateman, Parker Posey) and there was some really good jokes but, still, the whole thing didn’t really work out. First of all, some of the jokes just lasted for way too long. For example, in the ladies room, when they start to feel Christina Applegate’s boobs, it was really good, but they should have moved on right away instead of having all these women going for her breasts. Same thing about ‘you’re penis is huge’ turning into the rather underwhelming ‘Penis song’. The other mistake they made was to mix the R rated stuff with a romantic-comedy. Indeed, it watered down the edgy characters and it became something rather sappy and disappointing. Basically, you start up with some women with a different attitude towards men and love relationships and end up with one of the most conventional conclusion you could possible imagine. To conclude, even though the whole thing actually had some potential, it remains a rather weak comedy and it is not really worth a look.

5/10