Drop Dead Gorgeous Critic Reviews
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Occasionally heavy-handed and overdone -- and scarcely free from a self-congratulatory tone -- this latest spoof is nonetheless lots of fun, clever and fearless, and loaded with wicked lines and touches.Read the full review
One of the year's funniest acts of malice.Read the full review
Allison Janney is tacky incarnate as Barkin's good-time gal pal. When she shows up, Drop Dead Gorgeous comes most to life. [23 July 1999, Life, p.12E]Read the full review
Although the satire is biting and the tone is irreverent, Drop Dead Gorgeous lacks the killer script and top notch performances necessary to make this a wholly successful production.Read the full review
The script must have been a funny read. It's the movie that somehow never achieves takeoff speed.Read the full review
Ironically, the filmmakers don't seem to realize that their movie is even shallower and sillier than its targets.Read the full review
A cheap cut-glass tiara of a booby prize goes to Drop Dead Gorgeous for messing up so utterly.Read the full review
It's like a cross between "Heathers" and "Waiting For Guffman," had those movies been made by morons, for morons, and the cinematic equivalent of cow-tipping, only less graceful.Read the full review
A relatively pain-free, if brain-free, diversion.Read the full review
Screenwriter Lona Williams and director Michael Patrick Jann spare no attempt to show characters at their zaniest, wackiest or most grotesque. The effect is disconcerting. Is this light comedy or dark satire? It ends up being neither.Read the full review
