Drop Dead Gorgeous

Pros: Kirsten Dunst
Cons: Obvious cheap shots

If any target is ripe for a mockumentary,
it is a teenage beauty pageant. Phoniness
from and condescension towards the contestants
is in full display, with wooden production
numbers and numbing conformity added to the
mix.
...

Pros: Kirsten Dunst is loveable, maybe a bit too loveable.
Cons: Muddled, confused satire, no laughs, very few brains

Here we have a movie that affirms that great Hollywood myth that good things happen to good people and the bad people always get theirs in the end. Ah yes, the warm fuzzies that true Hollywood movies deliver, without actually succeeding on any sort of...

Pros: Funny, irreverent and FUN!
Cons: It should have ended 5 minutes sooner.

DROP DEAD GORGEOUS

Genre: Comedy
Rating: PG-13
Running time: 97 minutes
Released by: New Line Cinema

A talented cast that takes their material very, very seriously is the reason that director Michael Patrick Jann's...

Pros: plot twists, Kirsten Dunst, mockumentary style
Cons: too predictable at times, cliched ending

To be honest with you, I haven't had this much guilty pleasure seeing a film in quite some time. The subject (Beauty Pageant's), the locale(small town Minnesota) and the class rivalries (rich obnoxious snob vs "trailer trash") have been done...

Pros: smart satire, occasional moments of true warmth
Cons: often gross, unnecessary, over the top and mean

I have no idea if this movie would be funny to someone who never did teen pageants. While it's over the top and often unnecessarily gross and crass it's so dead on in some of the smaller details (like interview questions such as "if you were a...

Pros: Denise Richards
Cons: Loses direction on to many occasions

With a line up like Kristie Alley, Denise Richards, and Kirsten Dunst you would think this would be a great movie.
Here we have the annual town teen beauty pageant, with a competition of two.
You have your 'loveable', down to earth Amber (K....

Pros: Better than you might have been led to expect ...
Cons: The whole doesn't quite add up to its parts ...

The Rutles begat Spinal Tap begat Man Bites Dog begat Waiting for Guffman begat Forgotten Silver, but if there's yet been a Year of the Mockumentary, 1999 was it. The Blair Witch Project, The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human, and even the year's...

Pros: dead-on portrait of small-town beauty pageants
Cons: not much of a script

If you've never been to a teen beauty pageant, this movie will go right under your head; Drop Dead Gorgeous adolescents (played mostly by grown women) spar for a crown in a morality play about bad rich girls and plucky trailer trash. If you've ever...

Pros: Great dark warped humor
Cons: Scene changes are a little slow to come

This movie was surprisingly enjoyable. It has a nasty twisted story and script that is delicious and very funny. There are scenes in it that make the most stern of movie watchers laugh out loud.

Kirstey Alley is great in it; likewise Kirsten...

Pros: Light, Funny, Keeps you laughing.
Cons: Not very deep, a little over the top.

Drop Dead Gorgeous is a light, funny comedy perfect for a night when you have a bunch of friends coming over. The movie takes place in Minnesota, and although Kirstie Ally's accent was horrendous, the northern location gives the movie a zany feel not...

Pros: Hot Women....nuff said
Cons: Kinda goofy plot

The story line in this movie was only mediocre. The comedy was alright. But the girls.....GOOD LORD!!! Wow. I went to see the movie because I like watching Denise Richards. I left thinking that Kristen Dunst was a goddess!!!!

As far as...

Pros: Satire
Cons: some of the jokes

I really enjoyed this film. The story was a bit of a stretch but so is the idea of wanting the title of Miss Anything. This film is a wonderful look at what young women live with regarding beauty, competition and the relationship they have with their...

Pros: Nothing
Cons: All You Could Ever Imagine

I could write you a review including major details of this film's plot, but won't, for there is absolutely nothing to write about. "Drop Dead Gorgeous" is without question, in my opinion, one of, if not the largest flops of 1999. The movie...

Pros: Hilarious plot, Denise Richards, Ellen Barkin
Cons: taking it too far, the ending

This movie is hilarious from beginning to end. It is also sad the way it exposes trailer park trash in America. What many may see as everyday life is ridiculed to the end in this flick. Denise Richards is fine as hell in this movie, but the snobbiest,...

Pros: Good acting performances and subject ripe for satire
Cons: It's been done - better - before

Don't be surprised if you find yourself wishing the "gorgeous" girls would just drop dead in this heavy-handed mock documentary. Set in Mount Rose, Minnesota, it purports to examine a small-town beauty pageant. Here in the hallowed...