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Dirty Love (2005) First Look Pictures 1 hr. 35 mins. Starring: Jenny McCarthy, Victor Webster, Carmen Electra, Kam Heskin, Eddie Kaye Thomas Directed by: John Asher Dirty Love Rating:  
E-MAIL FRANK OCHIENG When did looking at a piece of convincing eye candy in the curvaceous likes of Jenny McCarthy become an inexplicable eyesore? How about when she agreed to write and star in what perhaps is one of the most excruciating embarrassments of the year in the woefully sexual comedy Dirty Love? Dreadfully lacking in creative substance and about as awkwardly received as a training bra on Anna Nicole Smith’s bouncy bosom, Dirty Love is a cheap-minded farce aimed at the lowest common denominator. There’s absolutely nothing endearing or remotely original about the former giggly MTV hostess McCarthy and her putrid pet project meant as a vanity piece of sorts. Sorely unimaginative and about as involving as a blocked nasal passage, McCarthy indulges the audience with a tremendously inane and flavorless romantic flick that drastically searches for its intended chuckles only to come up convincingly short in the process. There’s no doubt that McCarthy is a fun-loving beauty that embraces her goofy-minded charm as she’s not afraid to make herself look silly. However, the relentless shenanigans in Dirty Love takes its toll as her self-deprecating act wears extremely thin at the expense of the simplistic, shoddy script. With the adage of gross-out gags such as body fluids and other unfunny deplorable antics that rule in this terminable ruse, Dirty Love can’t even muster up enough interest to engage the viewer in its tedious toilet humor. As much as McCarthy struggles to make a fool out of herself for the sake of the forced humor, one cannot stop to feel sorry for a knockout babe wanting to generate more than a hormonal response from her ardent carnal admirers. McCarthy plays Rebecca, a New York-based photographer who feels understandably betrayed when her roguish boyfriend Richard (Victor Webster) decided to step out and cheat on her. Feeling the need to side-step her humiliation based on Richard’s betrayal, Rebecca embarks on a scheme to make her philandering man jealous by entertaining the company of various studs. But Rebecca finds her mission to humble a wretched Richard quite daunting as she faces all kinds of mischievousness as the escapades keep rolling along. We get a lot of tiresome scenes where Rebecca is relegated to making funny faces and tripping all over the place as if she’s the feminine stand-in for Chevy Chase playing Gerald Ford in the old Saturday Night Live sketches. The silliness abounds but McCarthy insistence on milking the manufactured mishaps which comes off as utterly strained and exhausting. As McCarthy’s craving cohorts in this stilted laugher, Carmen Electra and Kam Heskin are the bimbo-minded sidekicks that try to contribute further sex appeal and hilarity to this toothless flesh fable. As with their lead harlot, both Electra and Heskin grate on the nerves with their one-note performances. Even Webster’s Richard is too bland and inconsequential to digest as the insensitive cad who dared to cheat on our harried heroine. Director John Asher is persistently clueless when overseeing the severely middling material. He has no idea how to present his leading lady McCarthy as a deliciously dizzy dish and turns her over to the comatose script that submerges the ex pin-up girl’s bubbly persona. It’s safe to say that the late Lucille Ball or Carol Burnett for that matter won’t have any problems losing sleep over McCarthy’s anemic cinematic bid as the Queen of Comedy. For the treacherous 95 minutes that moviegoers are asked to sit through the enormously irritating Dirty Love, they could have done something more productive with their time—maybe taking in a Pauly Shore film festival perhaps? Click here to comment on this review or post your own thoughts. Frank Ochieng © TheWorldJournal.com |
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