Dirty Love

This unbelievably awful film was awarded the Razzie Award for the worst movie of 2005, and it's awfully hard to disagree with the decision. It is a shameless monument to McCarthy's ego, as her badly written screenplay is designed exclusively to provide a showcase for her tiresome brand of toilet humor and self indulgent mugging that makes Jerry Lewis look restrained by comparison.

But as bad as McCarthy's script and performance are, she isn't helped by then-husband John Mallory Asher's heavy-handed direction or Eric Wycoff's brutal cinematography, with unforgivingly harsh lighting that shows off every imperfection in the actors' faces and robs McCarthy and Carmen Electra their usual saving grace as eye candy.

The most remarkable scene was McCarthy at a grocery store buying tampons when her period kicks in. She starts running through the store leaving a dripping trail of menstrual fluid, which ultimately becomes a massive pond of the stuff that she slips in and is finally covered by. It wasn't the least bit funny and quite sickeningly tasteless.

The cast is uniformly awful, with the lone exception of Eddie Kaye Thomas as the plain fellow who is devoted to McCarthy. He steals the film with the sole characterization that doesn't descend into cartoonish self indulgence. Of course with a movie like "Dirty Love," that can be considered petty theft.

But the price of admission was worth the DVD audio commentary by McCarthy and Asher (who comes off as a clueless fool who was a periphery character on the set), one of the most outlandish displays of narcissism and self-delusion I was ever witnessed. They were constantly congratulating themselves on their own brilliance, and oblivious to the fact that the movie was a god-awful mess. The funniest part was three minutes before the film ended, McCarthy announced that she had another appointment and actually walked out of the taping to let her husband finish up! He had nothing to say except to reiterate how brilliant Jenny was, a conclusion that the vast majority of viewers of "Dirty Love" will disagree with.

Dirty Love is truly the worst film I have seen so far in my 27 years on this planet.

Everyone involved in the creative process of the film should never be allowed to work in the industry ever again. I feel as if I have been robbed of 90 minutes of my life. I sat through the whole film on the odd chance that it might get better but unfortunately it just got worse. I did laugh at several points throughout the movie, but these were at the quality of the acting or the stupidity of the storyline.

Given the choice of either a repeat viewing or having my fingernails slowly ripped off, one by one,without painkillers whist listening to Kenny G, I would choose the latter.

this movie was horrible. Who the hell is Jenny McCarthy to mock Woody Allen, in a comedy no less? Lewd jokes, which, are not really jokes at all, and crass sight gags, do automatically make something funny. The Farrelly Brothers use this kind of comedy well because hidden within the toilet humor is some form of wit or intelligence. These jokes, which, are thrown at us relentlessly, are devoid of any true comedy, relying on shock-value and funny faces to makes us laugh(which they don't. The over-acting compounds this; the constant "funny" hysterical crying of McCarthy(she obviously thinks she's a comic genius, which, only further irritates the viewer,) the ghetto shtick of Carmen Electra (she was better than i expected) and the airhead-Hollywood-stereotype of the other best friend; all of it tires after five minutes. It is not that I think this type of comedy is always awful; it's just awful in the hands of a lazy writer like McCarthy. In all, a very unfunny, boring movie.

Dirty Love (2005)

BOMB (out of 4)

After reading Ebert's "No Star" review and seeing him rank this as the third worst movie of 2005, I just had to try it out for myself. Not only is this the worst film I've seen from 2005 but I'd also go as far as to say this is the most embarrassing piece of trash I've seen from a known actress. Jenny McCarthy catches her boyfriend banging another chick so she has a nervous breakdown while trying to find another guy. Everything in this film from the horrid direction to the horrid acting is downright bad but it tries to set itself apart with some disgusting humor. This humor includes McCarthy having her period in a supermarket and the blood leaking all over the place, people slipping in it and so on. McCarthy wrote the screenplay, which is quite bad and it's rather sad to see how far she went to embarrass herself. A horrible movie that isn't even worth the scene where McCarthy shows off her breast.

I saw this, and for the life of me, cannot remember why. THE WORST MOVIE EVER MADE. Every single comment that praises this film has got to be from people in it, I took a look at the box office, all but 2 theaters showing this film dropped it after it's first week.

It grossed $58,000 dollars.

That's not a typo.

$822 it's second weekend. Eight hundred and twenty two dollars. I made more that weekend.

That's not a typo, either.

Gigli is Oscar-worthy compared to this.

Not one of the characters were remotely believable, which wouldn't matter so much if they were funny. They were not funny. Perhaps this will be the torpedo that sinks what's left of Jenny and Carmen's careers, but I doubt it.