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Article: Smitten kitten tale too smutty
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- The Nelson Mail
- Article date:
- July 30, 2002
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The Sweetest Thing (Starring Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate.
Directed by Roger Kumble. R16. State Cinema)
This chick flick about girls who wanna have fun shows that coarse
comedies grounded in gross-out gags and generally vulgar humour need
not be just guy movies.
The Sweetest Thing has as much lewd material in it as you'd find
in an American Pie-style comedy, but bases its story around three
young women who enjoy casual sex and raunchy good times as much as
any guy - as long as they are in control.
The key player here is sexy Christina (Cameron Diaz), who has left
a trail of broken-hearted guys in her wake. A commitment-phobe, she
stresses the importance of having barriers, not ...