Cruel Intentions Critic Reviews
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A witty, raunchy comedy, which proves that a well-written piece of business – oozing with sex, wit and nasty intrigue – works for any generation.Read the full review
Nasty, profane and wickedly entertaining for the most part.Read the full review
The original was about social manipulation as blood sport. Amazing how easily it transports, themes intact, to our blighted decade, and to our children.Read the full review
It crash-lands with an ending of soppy moralizing, but until the end, it's smart and merciless in the tradition of the original story.Read the full review
Never shocks or even offends by ascribing fully adult cruelties and erotic activities to obnoxious kids; such harshness wouldn't flatter a cast this moussed and magazine-layout-ready.Read the full review
It is maliciously entertaining, up to a point.Read the full review
You have the queasy sense that the whole thing is just an elaborate stunt, and in this case an exploitative one.Read the full review
No amount of youthful charisma can alter the fact that, in the light of "Dangerous Liaisons", Cruel Intentions is a feeble and dissatisfying shadow.Read the full review
It's not the trite talk that sends Cruel Intentions into a tailspin, it's the lightweight casting.Read the full review
