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Release Date: Apr 27, 2001; Rated: R; Length: 93 Minutes; Genre: Comedy; With: Matt Dillon, Michael Douglas, John Goodman, Paul Reiser and Liv Tyler
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Not just dumb, but embarrassingly dorky. It's like a bad-sitcom version of a Tarantino film noir, as directed by Ed Wood from a script by Alex Portnoy. There's a weirdly dated quality to the movie's overstatement, whether it's the mother-fixation jokes, a dual appearance by the former Andrew Dice Clay, or Liv Tyler's breathy, naive, neo-Marilyn shtick as a vamp obsessed with home furnishings who seduces one geek after another. For anyone who fails to notice how va-va-va-voom! Tyler is, the movie provides us with that always useful visual aid, the soaping-up-the-car-in-a-clingy-dress scene. D
Posted May 11, 2001
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