Drop Dead Gorgeous Reviews

[Highly rated reviewer]

superb..................

this dvd is superb. This is a documentary spoof style film, about a teenage beauty pageant. It centres around what is supposed to be the oldest such pageant in existence, the Mount Rose American Teen Pageant in Minnesota.

There are superb performances from Kirsten Dunst, as the pretty, but poor, girl who would be Queen, Ellen Barkin, as her trailer trash mum, Allison Janney, as their supportive and endearing neighbour, and last, but certainly not least, Kirstie Alley, with a priceless Minnesota type accent, who is nothing short of fabulous as the rich, manical, beauty pageant director who will stop at nothing to see her daughter, effectively played by Denise Richards, win the pageant.

well worth watching.

Sick..Sick...Sick...but FUNNY !!

A lot of people don't find this as funny as I do. It just seems to smack my funny bone full on. The humour is mignight black with jokes about anorexia, trailer park trash and perverts all included. The cast are a famous bunch and give it their all, look out for Alison Janney who is almost unrecognisable from her role in the West Wing. Not for the sensitive.

totally surprising!

Me and my husband sat down to watch this - him with that "Oh god its a chick flick" look on his face - and then we both laughed our heads off. Not your average chick flick by far and one of the best black comedy laughs we have had this year. Recommended.

A good laugh at middle america

Okay, the plot may be a bit clunky at times, but this is a good, dark dig at all those things that terrify us about modern America heartland: christian fundamentalism (some great gags), American nationalism and that wholesome apple pie-ness that we smug Brits all love to hate.

Heck - this is just a funny film with some great one-liners and it's not the girly film you might think it is at all.

Americans are learning decent humor!!!

I used to watch this film a lot when I ran a video shop a few years ago, and rented just to see if it was as funny as I remember.......it is.

If your into 'the office' and other comedies where the gags arnt thrown right in your face in an all to obvious way then you should love this film. If not just for the local accent alone.

Funny as hell

Sooo funny! One of the best black comedies I've seen in a while.

Funny

This is a classic mockumentary. Great casting and very funny script. Great mocking of American beauty pagents. Not too serious, fun that everyone could enjoy.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Blacker than black!!!!

This is just brilliant from start to finish! This black comedy centres around the trailer trash world of Beauty Competions, and the frankly brilliant cast includes pushy mothers, spoilt little rich girls and the right amount of murder and mystery to keep you intreaged.

Who says American satire is dead?

This is a seriously funny film, deeply subversive and a great piece of work. What it's not is a satire on the vacuousness of beauty pageants.

DDG aims at the emptiness of our whole materialistic culture and the way we have traded in the more valuable things in life for the pursuit of a perfect self image and will even cash in that perverted, limited objective for a few minutes of fame on TV. Life is a house of cards with hidden truths under every shiny surface.

The humour is so dense and the jokes are so profligately thrown around that it occasionally feels like an incarnation of The Simpsons,. Surprise, surprise. 54 Simpsons episodes benefited from the efforts of DDG scriptwriter Lona Williams. She may have written your favourite. Every you time you watch you get something new, enabling you to rejoice further in the fact that half the people who watch it don't get any of it at all.

In fact it's so sharp that even people who like this type of thing can get cut to pieces by it. Watch your fingers . . .

Funniest American film since The Producers. Yes, it's THAT good.

Funny

A black comedy that I was not to sure about before renting. It is a good laugh and worth a watch.