Review of The Sweetest Thing on Filmviews.net
Year2002 ReviewerChris Docker
Whilst not quite in the league of 'There's Something About Mary' or 'My Best Friend's Wedding', this comedy sees Cameron Diaz return to form, cranking up the girlie-jokes with panache and charisma. Simple enough story (twentysomething girl decides to take wooing more seriously after she has instinctively given the man of her dreams a cold shoulder). As with most comedies, it's not the story though, it's the way you tell it. This one is stuffed full of girls-night-out jokes for the female half of the audience and also provides plenty of chicky-babe eye-candy for the men in the audience doing their best to keep up. All delivered with machine gun rapidity that makes us believe this is what Cameron Diaz is like really. Actually, she's at that age (just turned 30) where she can still play a dizzy blonde yet with enough acting under her belt to make the part stand out (from award-nominated roles like Being John Malkovitch, action thriller roles like Charlies Angels and Vanilla Sky, and voice-overs in Shrek). Most of the audience howled with laughter (as I did) throughout the movie. As with 'Something About Mary', the individual gags and slapstick would lose their punch in the re-telling, not to mention spoiling the movie for you, so I'll simply say, `Can you do shallow?' If the answer is yes, then enjoy 'The Sweetest Thing'.
Rating: 6/10;