Dirty Love (2004)

4% of critics liked it
(28 reviews)
65% of users liked it
(13,053 ratings)

A sexy woman discovers just how hard it can be to find a worthwhile man in this outrageous romantic comedy. Rebecca (Jenny McCarthy) is a beautiful blonde who thinks she has it made with her hunky boyfriend, Richard (Victor Webster); however, when she comes home early one day and finds him in bed… More A sexy woman discovers just how hard it can be to find a worthwhile man in this outrageous romantic comedy. Rebecca (Jenny McCarthy) is a beautiful blonde who thinks she has it made with her hunky boyfriend, Richard (Victor Webster); however, when she comes home early one day and finds him in bed with another woman, she realizes that isn't quite the case. Devastated, Rebecca takes the advice of her friends Carrie (Kam Heskin), a half-bright actress, and Michelle (Carmen Electra), a racially confused beautician, and throws herself back into the dating game to prove to Richard that she can do better. However, there's a problem -- Rebecca is a bit of a klutz, she keeps ending up with men who are either crazy or strange, and each date she goes on ends in disaster. Does Rebecca have any chance at either finding new love or winning Richard back? And is it possible her pal John (Eddie Kaye Thomas) might be interested in being more than just friends? Dirty Love was written by leading lady Jenny McCarthy and directed by John Asher, McCarthy's then-husband. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Rating, Runtime: R, 1 hr. 35 min.
Directed By: John Mallory Asher
Written By: Jenny McCarthy
Genres: Comedy

In Theaters: Sep 23, 2005 Wide
On DVD: Dec 6, 2005
Studio: First Look

Critic Reviews

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger
The shtick is desperately crude and not particularly funny. One wonders why any actress, even a retired MTV game show hostess, would stoop to such a disgraceful gig.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Even by the standards of its bottom-feeding genre, Dirty Love clings to the gutter like a rat in garbage.
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News
Comedy can be a deadly weapon in the wrong hands.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Jenny McCarthy's giddy charm is wasted by screen writer Jenny McCarthy.
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times
Attention, Razzie voters.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent.
Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed
McCarthy is still not funny, never was, never will be.
Ethan Alter, Film Journal International
It doesn't make a lick of sense, largely because none of these characters acts like a recognizable human being.
, Time Out
McCarthy is still a tremendously appealing presence, but her script about a gal who tries to move on after her himbo boyfriend kicks her to the curb is pure amateur hour.
Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com
When Carmen Electra as a ghetto body waxer is the highlight of your film, you've got trouble.
David Cornelius, eFilmCritic.com
Dirty Love is ninety mintes of soul-crushing idiocy, wrapped in incompetence and smothered in fart jokes.
Jeffrey Westhoff, Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
Aims to be the chick-flick answer to Deuce Bigalow, but even that turns out to be setting its sights too high.
Frank Ochieng, Movie Eye
Dreadfully lacking...about as awkwardly received as a training bra on Anna Nicole Smith's bouncy bosom...a cheap-minded farce aimed at the lowest common denominator
Kim Williamson, Boxoffice Magazine
You can't really like a movie that features a beautiful young woman who sometimes is naked and you end up leaving the theatre wishing you could see less of her.
Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Daily News
One thing you can say for McCarthy: The woman knows no vanity.
, E! Online
The shoddy script and train wreck of a supporting cast don't do much to win us over.
Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide's Movie Guide
This dyspeptic exploration of modern romance was written by TV-star Jenny McCarthy, who tailored its vulgar slapstick to her own apparently endless willingness to be the butt of raunchy gags.
JoBlo, JoBlo's Movie Emporium
I can remember only one other scene in the entire 90-minute movie that made me laugh...
Josh Larsen, Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)
McCarthy ... is so busy trying to prove she doesn't take herself seriously that she undersells what is actually some serious comedic talent.
Edward Havens, FilmJerk.com
An hour and a half of uninspired dreck.

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Dean M

Hilarious and cheeky comedy of sexy Jenny McCarthy who throws herself from one wild comic stituation into another. Jenny does an excellent job in her acting and script in this film.
Fascade F

Crazy insane and ridiculous humor all balled up into one boisterious adventure. Jenny McCarthy as the woman rejected by her ex-boyfriend and how she handles rejection is stuffed with forced laughter with the antics she goes through...See this if you dare...Ha ha...not.
Joseph E

Well is this film dumber than a doorknob, or what? This is a film that must've expected lowlights, and to be poorly recepted, but well, It is kind of worse than that..it is Hopeless and incompantant..well hopelessly without a cause for better judgement..and that is me being… More
Well is this film dumber than a doorknob, or what? This is a film that must've expected lowlights, and to be poorly recepted, but well, It is kind of worse than that..it is Hopeless and incompantant..well hopelessly without a cause for better judgement..and that is me being kind.
Yinalí R

Super funny!
Doctor S

Dirty indeed, from the content to the camera lenses. I can't recall if this was 'really bad' or just plain 'bad' so I'll split the difference. I did feel sorry for Jenny McCarthy who certainly tries hard here, unfortunately she was the only one.
Laurence C

You'll laugh loudly at this genuinely terrible comedy and then hate yourself for it. If anything needs to be said, it's that McCarthy knows no vanity whatsoever...