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	DVD Review: Love Stinks
		The film has the feel of a "sitcom" as well; the humor, the acting, even the direction and cinematography scream "sitcom".
		Occasionally, "Love Stinks" throws out a funny line or situation, but overall, I couldn't help feeling like I was watching a weak sitcom.
		I'm not sure what kind of sound the film contained when it was released for a 2 week run in theaters, but the sound on this DVD is pretty dissapointing.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews/lovestinksdvd.html (871 words)

	Love Stinks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		While watching Love Stinks, the mind wanders to things less obnoxious, less ridiculous -- the construction on 465 North, Quayle's presidential run, the lack of rain.
		Love Stinks was written and directed by the obviously frustrated Jeff Franklin, who was a director of the late '80s TV show Full House.
		Early on in Love Stinks, before the mutual torture begins, the witch surprises her victim by dressing up as Elvis and lip synching to the movie Viva Las Vegas.
	www.nuvo.net /archive/091699/091699_bfilm.html (499 words)

	'Love Stinks': When Her Goal Is Marriage and His Sex
		The goal-oriented courtship of Seth (French Stewart) and Chelsea (Bridgette Wilson) constitutes the plot of "Love Stinks," a one-dimensional comedy that mostly falls flat.
		"Love Stinks," written and directed by Jeff Franklin, may actually be misogynist -- it certainly paints Chelsea and her female friends as grossly manipulative -- but it's hard to get worked up about it.
		Whether the film is meant as an attack on women or an affectionate portrait of men's fear of commitment, it doesn't make much of a statement.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/091099love-film-review.html (552 words)

	Love Stinks
		This film seems to be trying to express some of the fears that men might have in relationships.
		The film itself was not great, but the angle -- I am trying to think of another man vs woman film where the woman is the bad guy (and therefore loses).
		The main difference is that in the chick-flicks the revenge is completely over the top, a vegnefull hate-filled romp unbridled by any morality, whereas in Love Stinks the hero never loses track of simply extracting himself from her clutches.
	www.angelfire.com /nb/feminism/lovestinks.html (1690 words)

	Love Stinks reviewed
		On the big screen, he plays Seth, a tv sit-com scriptwriter who falls in love with Chelsea (Bridgette Wilson), who is not so much in love with him as she is in love with the idea of getting married.
		Not only is Love Stinks a mess, but it is a narrated mess, and narration of a mess or of a masterpiece has a mess of problems.
		Love Stinks is rated R, although I don't know why.
	www.peanut.org /users/mike/text/Lovestin.htm (844 words)

	Love Stinks - Review - Stumped? - Stumped At the Video Store is a Magazine About Movies, DVD releases, actors, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Love Stinks, and so does this movie, a joke that would have worked infinitely better if the title of this bomb was Love Sucks.
		Seth Winnick (French Stewart) is a comedy writer who is afraid of commitmentógee, Iíve never seen that beforeówho falls in love with the lecherous Chelsea Turner (Bridgette Wilson), a superficial woman who latches on to Seth for his moneyóanother character trait I havenít seen previously.
		It is impossible to capture the pathetic, draining, unfunny and stereotypical nature of this film in words, although removing the entertainment value from a UPN sit-com comes fairly close.
	stumpedmagazine.com /Reviews/love-stinks.shtml (135 words)

	Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: Love Stinks
		Which is a lovely diversion while French Stewart searches for the background of the character he's portraying.
		What makes Love Stinks different from, say, The War of the Roses is that all the battles are fought on a very small field.
		Love Stinks looks like a television shoot, all close-ups or medium close-ups shot well within the crop lines etched onto a film camera's viewfinder.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive99/lovestinks.html (671 words)

	Love Stinks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		What it does is rekindle the misogynistic notion that women are husband hunters who judge a guy by the size of his, uh, wallet -- and that they'll stop at nothing to achieve their goal.
		The sophomoric gags that in a Farrelly film would be considered brass-balled wit here just accentuate the inane writing and a flaccid plot.
		The story line does ultimately strike a cord of inspiration in the rompish conclusion, but by that time all the love is gone.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/99/09/09/LOVE_STINKS.html (209 words)

	Love Stinks
		Love Stinks is such a paean to television, it would have done better to go straight to video, where it belongs.
		Love Stinks offers up the very modest pleasures of a middling TV show, something you'd watch only if the cable went out on a Friday night.
		Love Stinks is proof that even an awful, poorly executed idea can be borderline entertaining if it has enough funny jokes.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/love_stinks (785 words)

	Orlando Weekly - Film Review - Love Stinks
		"Love Stinks" is odorous from the top down, with poor French Stewart (NBC hit "Third Rock From the Sun") miscast in the lead role of television writer Seth Winnick.
		"Love Stinks" next takes a detour into terrain right out of 1989's infinitely more sophisticated dark comedy "War of the Roses," as the two quarreling lovers utilize lawyers and a variety of dirty tricks in an effort to destroy one another, emotionally if not physically.
		"Love Stinks" is filled out with an occasionally funny subplot about a sitcom that begins to reflect Seth's personal life, and some brief, winning performances by small-screen types Steve Hytner ("Seinfeld"), Jason Bateman ("Chicago Sons") and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen ("Beverly Hills, 90210").
	www.orlandoweekly.com /film/review.asp?rid=4949 (460 words)

	Movie Review - Love Stinks
		Love Stinks is the story of Seth, a successful television producer who thinks he has fallen in love with Chelsea, the woman of his dreams.
		However, in film AHA's mission is the protection of animal actors.
		No animal was harmed in the making of Love Stinks and many safety precautions were in place during the filming of the above scene.
	www.ahafilm.info /movies/moviereviews.phtml?fid=111 (231 words)

	Film & TV: Love Stinks (Austin Chronicle . 09-20-99)
		An "unromantic comedy" of deep marital paranoia, Love Stinks may spell relief for men whose bowels shake at the sight of baby booties, wedding rings, and SUVs.
		Yes, Love Stinks is often funny -- just not that funny.
		The film's gender humor would probably kill at a Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus conference.
	weeklywire.com /ww/09-20-99/austin_screens_film5.html (451 words)

	Love Stinks (1999)--The Lybarger Links Review
		Love Stinks fails this prerequisite miserably, so all of its flaws seem more glaring.
		What’s most irksome about Love Stinks is that it comes close to making an interesting point about the relationships where people are so eager to get married that they fail to check if their partners are good mates.
		Love Stinks proves that there are two types of independent films: The first offers material that mainstream studios wouldn’t touch; the other offers derivative fare that makes big studio product look golden in comparison.
	www.tipjar.com /dan/lovestinks.htm (405 words)

	Film & TV: Film Clips (Tucson Weekly . 09-20-99)
		Imagine a lead actor who delivers his lines in such an odd, stilted manner that no amusement is derived from his wretched quipping.
		Imagine a novice film critic gouging out his own eyes after just one horrifying glimpse into this strange, terrible universe.
		Its success at the box office will no doubt be directly proportional to the worldwide decline in sales of used rosary beads.
	weeklywire.com /ww/09-20-99/tw_filmclip.html (366 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Love Stinks at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Seth is a man who spends the greater part of the film trapped in an airplane lavatory with his face directly in front of the crotch of his friend Larry (Bill Bellamy) as Larry recounts the last year of Seth's life to.
		I wanted very much to like Love Stinks because I had heard it was a sort of spoof on romantic comedies.
		I'm sure I would have enjoyed Love Stinks more if I had had a neon sign in the corner of my living room that occasionally lit up to instruct me to laugh.
	www.epinions.com /content_14140280452 (1019 words)

	FilmHead.com
		Love Stinks starts with two couples taking a plane to Las Vegas.
		Within the film, there is a sitcom that Stewart and Bellamy are supposed to be writing.
		The film depends on the women, especially Wilson, to generate the comedy.
	www.filmhead.com /reviews/lovestinks.html (348 words)

	SCREEN IT! ARTISTIC REVIEW: LOVE STINKS
		The only problem is, he's not keen about tying the knot, no matter how much he loves her or enjoys the sex.
		A sporadically amusing look at love gone bad, the film has far more of a made for cable TV movie feel than that of a major theatrical release.
		In fact, one of the film's more amusing moments comes from left field when Warren Littlefield, the president of NBC Entertainment, who plays a TV executive here (yes, a big stretch), tells Seth that they shouldn't waste their sitcom on NBC.
	www.screenit.com /ourtake/1999/love_stinks.html (1138 words)

	LOVE STINKS - Production Notes...CinemaReview.com....Movie Reviews, Movie Contents, Moviegoer Opinions and Much More!
		LOVE STINKS is his feature film directorial debut.
		Bridgette Wilson's career has included a wide variety of roles including the films "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "Mortal Kombat." She says Chelsea is a mix of everything she’s done.
		While the film is certainly an outlandish take on love and relationships, there's more to the story.
	www.cinemareview.com /production.asp?prodid=720 (950 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Love Stinks \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		LOVE STINKS ** — French Stewart, Bridgette Wilson, Bill Bellamy, Tyra Banks, Jason Bateman; rated R (profanity, sex, vulgarity, violence); Carmike 12, Plaza 5400 and Ritz 15 Theaters; Century Theatres 16; Gateway 8 Cinemas; Loews Cineplex Holladay Center, South Towne Center and Trolley Square Mall Cinemas.
		A hateful little number that pretends to possess insight into modern mating rituals, the film is basically an excuse for someone — our guess would be writer-director Jeff Franklin — to work out rage against women.
		But despite the movie's profound drawbacks, Stewart, Wilson and Bellamy give the material all the commitment and comic zest they can muster, and however unappetizing this rancorous battle of the sexes gets, at least it sticks to its guns and never goes soft-hearted.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,70000045,00.html (394 words)

	(DVD Review) Love Stinks
		Love Stinks is the quirky story of Chelsea Turner's (Bridgette Wilson) quest to win her reluctant lover Seth Winnik's (3rd Rock from the Sun's French Stewart) hand in holy matrimony.
		Seth's friend and co-worker Larry (Bill Bellamy) is about to get married to the love of his life Holly (Tyra Banks), and Seth is going to be in the wedding party.
		This is not a distraction, but on a transfer of a film that is this new, completely uncalled for.
	www.yanman.com /HomeTheater/Reviews/LoveStinksReview.htm (465 words)

	Love Stinks
		Love stinks is a movie that's hard to review.
		Love Stinks -- The J. Geils Band You love her, but she loves him And he loves somebody else You just can't win And so it goes till the day you die This thing they call love is gonna make you cry I...
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	www.nwlove.com /6/love-stinks.html (409 words)

	Love stinks... - The Superhero Hype! Boards
		The love story is an integral element to the first two Bat films.
		It's important because from the first film, Blade's always struggled with being half-vampire, so a romance in the context of the woman actually being a vampire, makes it interesting and serves the story, as it gives more insight into what Blade is feeling.
		He must mean the whole I love you,I love you not,I love you again dull crap that Peter and MJ went thru in SM-2.
	www.superherohype.com /forums/showthread.php?t=226409 (1378 words)

	SCREEN IT! PARENTAL REVIEW: LOVE STINKS
		Nonetheless, should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness, we suggest that you take a closer look at the more detailed content listings.
		Some viewers -- especially women -- may be offended by the film's portrayal of women as sex objects (thus the plentiful and blatant cleavage) or greedy, manipulative bitches.
		Both Chelsea and Holly show tremendous amounts of cleavage in the various low-cut or skimpy outfits they wear throughout most of the film (including lingerie and Holly's wedding dress that shows part of the side of her bare breasts).
	www.screenit.com /movies/1999/love_stinks.html (2130 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Love Stinks" review (1999)
		The most laughable thing about "Love Stinks" -- a romance- gone- wrong comedy featuring a sitcom writer trying to break up with his deranged girlfriend -- is that nobody in the movie thinks the plot is funny.
		In theory, this could be rich comedic material, but "Love Stinks" expects us to sympathize with Stewart when he's too thick to see this fate coming.
		Almost enjoyable until this twist of fate, the picture suddenly changes tone and takes a failed stab at a low-brow rehash of the ugly divorce dark comedy "War of the Roses." Wilson files a palimony suit, but refuses to move out, and the former couple try to make each other's lives a living hell.
	www.splicedonline.com /99reviews/lovestinks.html (715 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Film Listings
		In this animated film that takes place during the Depression, a baseball-crazy, 10-year-old boy learns that he can make a difference if he only perseveres.
		The House of Sand is a quintessentially moderate art film: panoramic and symbolic, epic in scope, technically accomplished, and miraculously acted by the mother-daughter team of Fernandas Montenegro and Torres in showy dual roles.
		Jan Svankmajer's creepy-crawl slowly becomes one of the most mordantly beautiful of the director's films, an asylum-set anti-love story with mobile body parts and splashy theatrics.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gbase/Calendar/Film?Film=139890 (773 words)

	Cinemax
		Love can be a many splendored thing...or it can really bite.
		Stanley Kubrick took on the task of directing the film version of Vladimir Nabokov's scandalous novel, and the result was a masterpiece.
		Friends star David Schwimmer plays a going-nowhere college grad whose drab life takes a strange turn when he's asked to be a pallbearer at the funeral of a high-school classmate whom he doesn't remember.
	www.cinemax.com /special/lovestinks.html (710 words)

	CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 1999
		IA's first film is "unromantic" comedy Love Stinks.
		The company is the vision of award-winning commercial director Lee Lacy, who wants to establish the Los Angeles-based firm as one of the few "real" alternatives to the major studios.
		IA is designed to customise the marketing and distribution for each of its theatrical releases so as to target the core audience for each film.
	www.filmfestivals.com /cannes99/html/marcheus4.htm (223 words)

	LOVE STINKS movie review (with photos and clips where possible)
		But it's at Chelsea's instigation: Though she's there with another date, Chelsea has already decided she wants to be Mrs.
		This film examines the old saw, "He chased her until she caught him." Though he thinks he's the aggressor, Seth can't believe his luck with Chelsea sleeps with him on their first date.
		The next thing he knows, she's clinging to him like a vine, interrupting his business meetings for jealous explosions, talking about moving in and doing whatever it takes to convince (or force) the reticent Seth to marry her.
	www.rochestergoesout.com /mov/l/lovest.html (433 words)

	Mutant Reviewers from Hell do "Love Stinks"
		There was a LOT of room for Love Stinks to go really wrong.
		I mean, the opening half is all Romanticom (tm) stuff, but the great, believable chemistry between Stewart and Wilson really made it work for me. The jokes crackle, the characters keep fightin' on, and the laughs don't stop.
		Not the act itself, nor the commitment level, nor even the deep seated desire to be one with the women you care most about.
	www.mutantreviewers.com /rlovestinks.html (1056 words)

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