最美好的事 The Sweetest Thing review by TOR THORSEN 英文影评

最美好的事，The Sweetest Thing

Women are often termed "the fairer ." Besides the fact that they are arguably more aesthetically pleasing, the phrase also implies that the XX-chromosomed are somehow less prone to the base instincts which make their XY-bearing brethren buy swimsuit calendars, pay to see movies starring Denise Richards, and watch Cinemax late on Friday night.

This is, of course, nonsense. Every week on HBO, the mavens of Sex and the City prove that even the classiest women rut in the same gutter as men when it comes to affairs of the crotch. Another, even more sordid piece of evidence to this fact is The Sweetest Thing, a Farrelly brothers-esque crass-a-thon posing as a My Best Friend's Wedding-like romantic comedy. Sure, the film has has the trappings of your typical chick flick, with the requisite female bonding and pop-ditty soundtrack. But the unexceptional story is dotted with enough moments of sheer hilarity to set it just above its estrogen-oozing ilk.

 

If you met Christina Walters (Cameron Diaz) in real life, you'd probably want to strangle her. Tall, gorgeous, and emptier than an alcoholic's liquor cabinet, she's one of those totally successful people who never seems to have to work. Instead, her existence revolves around hitting the San Francisco club scene in skimpy outfits with her surgically enhanced fellow man-killer, Courtney (Christina Applegate). Together, they tease every heteroual male in the place by shaking their groove thangs but remaining completely unattainable. "Distance is your safety net," Christina coos to her recently dumped roommate, Jane (Selma Blair), reasoning that if you don't let any man past your emotional defenses, you can never get hurt.

 

But once she utters these words, you know Christina is going to fall for a guy hard. That lucky fellow is Peter Donahue (Thomas Jane), a salesman from California's wine country who bumps into our heroine while living it up in the city for a bachelor party. They get off to a shaky start: She grabs his butt and then tries to fob him off on Jane; he promptly tells her off, summing up her shallow existence in a piercing burst of on-the-spot psychoanalysis. After that, the sparks fly until Peter's brother, Roger ('80s teeny-bopper relic Jason Bateman), drags the poor sap away before he can even give the girl some phone digits.  更多 www.130q.com

 

Naturally, Christina pines for the only man who's ever stood up to her, and she sets out to find him. The only clue she has to go on is that Peter's brother is getting married the following weekend up north. So, without further ado, she and Courtney hit the road to track Peter down, engaging in no end of typical road-trip mischief along the way.

 

The Sweetest Thing is completely derivative, and Christina and Courtney's hijinks don't break any new ground. While shopping for dresses at a secondhand shop, Christina actually says, "Do we have time for a movie montage?" The pair then dance around dressed up as their favorite icons from the 1970s and 1980s, including Madonna, Jennifer Beals in Flashdance, and Rizzo from Grease. They also end up in a compromising position in the car while wearing only their skivvies, causing a horny biker driving alongside to crash his hog.

 

But while many gags are as dumb as they come, a good chunk are undeniably funny. The best is a wild ual encounter between Jane and her new boy-toy, a clueless hunk who dresses up in an elephant suit to entertain a children's cancer ward. When he shows up to the boutique where Jane works, the two get it on inside a dressing room while he's still in costume. It's a riotous coupling that will have the stuffed-animal fetishists called "furries" trembling in their foam-rubber underwear.

 

What ultimately saves The Sweetest Thing is the charisma of its stars. Diaz remains as appealing as ever, even if her lowbrow shtick occasionally veers into Jenny McCarthy territory. The real winner here is Applegate, whose mercenary pursuit of hedonism is more Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall than Married with Children's Kelly Bundy. The actress comes off as poised and classy, even when she's letting curious gawkers in the ladies' room take her silicone-enhanced goods for a test drive. Every minute Applegate is on-screen, The Sweetest Thing is irresistible, and her turn will leave viewers — particularly romantically frustrated male ones — clamoring for more.

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