Whipped (2000)

13% of critics liked it
(68 reviews)
31% of users liked it
(4,472 ratings)

In this independent comedy, three buddies who have been sharing their thoughts on love and sex suddenly find that that's not all they're sharing. Stylish stockbroker Brad (Brian Van Holt), bohemian hipster Zeke (Zorie Barber), and socially inept Jonathan (Jonathan Abrahams) get together with their… More In this independent comedy, three buddies who have been sharing their thoughts on love and sex suddenly find that that's not all they're sharing. Stylish stockbroker Brad (Brian Van Holt), bohemian hipster Zeke (Zorie Barber), and socially inept Jonathan (Jonathan Abrahams) get together with their married friend Eric (Judah Domke) every Sunday at the same coffee shop to discuss whatever is on their minds -- which usually turns out to be women. While most weeks the conversation quickly turns to a crude exchange of views on "the art of seduction," one Sunday Brad, Zeke, and Jonathan all have the same remarkable bit of news for Eric: They've fallen in love. After comparing notes, however, they realize that they are all in love with the same woman, Mia (Amanda Peet). Whipped was the feature debut for writer and director Peter M. Cohen. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Rating, Runtime: R, 1 hr. 25 min.
Directed By: Peter M. Cohen
Written By: Peter M. Cohen
Genres: Comedy

In Theaters: Jun 1, 1999 Wide
On DVD: Feb 6, 2001
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

Robert Horton, Film.com
This movie has straight-to-video written all over it.
Tom Keogh, Film.com
Cohen, an experienced feature producer but first-time director, is hung up on superficial production values over substance.
David Germain, Associated Press
A caustic, raunchy, often hilarious examination of how men use women, and how easy it is for a determined female to do the same to a passel of self-centered males.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
The trouble with Whipped isn't that its characters are dirty mouthed horndog jerks -- it's that they're phony dirty mouthed horndog jerks.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
The dirty talk is so painfully forced and emphatic it lacks any comic spontaneity.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
An insult to anyone who pays money to see it.
Christopher Smith, Bangor Daily News (Maine)
After just 30 minutes of "Whipped," you either want to hose down the screen with Lysol or dip yourself in bleach. It's that offensive, that rotten, and it easily stands as the worst film in years.
Scott Nash, Three Movie Buffs
Funny at times, but never makes you care.
David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews
...after a while, the whole thing just becomes tiresome.
James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette
Amazingly, humor in the movies has become so much cruder and ruder in the past two years that "Whipped" already seems about as scandalous as "Getting Gertie's Garter"...

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Leigh R

Guys are stupid...
Emily A

I find something endearing about this profane, broad, low-brow and vaguely sexist movie. Maybe I just really love the fact that it's almost the antithesis of Sex and The City. Both take place in New York, both feature four friends who ike to sit in retaurants together and talk… More
I find something endearing about this profane, broad, low-brow and vaguely sexist movie. Maybe I just really love the fact that it's almost the antithesis of Sex and The City. Both take place in New York, both feature four friends who ike to sit in retaurants together and talk about sex. It's just that there is almost no romance in this, except possibly between the friends themselves. This movie is not for everyone - almost no one, I imagine - but I liked it.
Michael G

I think I saw this but if it's the one I'm thinking of, it seemed to think that just because it was an indie film that it would automatically be interesting. If this is the same one I'm thinking of then yes, it sucked.
Nate Z

[font=Arial][color=darkred]The ailing problems with 'Whipped' aren't with its inept acting, writing, and direction - though those do add up. The true problem is that 'Whipped' isn't just a bad movie as say 'Battlefield Earth' is; no my friends… More
[font=Arial][color=darkred]The ailing problems with 'Whipped' aren't with its inept acting, writing, and direction - though those do add up. The true problem is that 'Whipped' isn't just a bad movie as say 'Battlefield Earth' is; no my friends 'Whipped' is a viciously ugly movie, the type of which that force you to take an hour long shower afterwards and scrub your skin with salt and steel wool.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=darkred]The story of 'Whipped' unspools over a familiar diner over four friends bantering over female conquests, misognistic games and chest pounding, and general nastiness. Our core of characters the ususal stereotypes of these "men" with the supposedly sensitve one, the yuppie Wall Street kid, the playa' etc. Writer/director Cohen tries his darndest to raise eyebrowels with vulgarity and raunch, but minus any wit, just making it seem shallow and inane. Which is a perfect description of 'Whipped' in any kind of masochistic nutshell.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=darkred]The three guys eventually fall head over heels for the same woman in the big-teethed Amanda Peet, who somehow beyond my comprehension does have an air about her. Eventually these crass individuals all learn some kind of lesson when Peet plays each of them for the same kicks the men derive. Is this supposed to be a feministic statement in the end of a movie so full of underground hatred for women that it could have been 'In the Company of Men' minus the quality? 'Whipped' is billed to expose the politics of dating but what it perceives as breaking new ground and insights in the war of dating we all learned many years ago, some of it on the school yard playground.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=darkred]'Whipped' has such ugly contempt for basically anything living as we carry along with the four pathetic human examples of life. The humor is dead-on-arrival and horribly bad. The acting is so amatuerish these people's only other experience must have come from an uncle's home movies. Yet Cohen gets crucified the worst for his flat and lifless direction and most importantly for his ugly story.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=darkred]'Whipped' may prove not to be the worst movie of this year already full of its fair share of garbage, but I defy anyone to discover a film that is more ugly, spiteful, and horribly uncomfortable to sit through. 'Whipped' just isn't bad, it's one of the very few movies you would sell your soul for to erase from your memory banks.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=darkred]Nate's Grade: F[/color][/font]
Chosen 7

Very entertaining film..