8/10
She may not be particularly attractive, but she sure is a package full a bad-taste
25 April 1999
If you're on the floor, and rolling around in fits of laughter after the first 30 mins of a film, you know it's something special. Well, I didn't go quite that far, but I came pretty close. And this was before the movie had really got into its swing. The icy cold narrative from Ricci is perhaps the wittiest non PC dialogue I've heard yet. Anyone comparing it with the loathsomely unfunny Chasing Amy, really has missed the point of the humour; it isn't dirty jokes and toilet humour, it is a snide attack on the aforementioned "Politically Correct" affront to self respecting icy cold bitches. It does drop off a bit during the middle of the film, the laughs don't come quite so thick and fast, but it finishes strongly, leaving you with a pleasantly bitter aftertaste. Friends' star Kudrow, although excruciatingly annoying in that bland, pathetic sitcom, delivers an amusing and telling performance, but everyone in this film plays second fiddle to a sterling performance from Ricci. To some the film up in one word, it would have to be "witty". That sure is giving any film a wrap, but this one whole heartedly deserves it; it's a fair dinkum corker!
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