Drop Dead Gorgeous: Critic Reviews

A graceless mockumentary!

Allison Janney is tacky incarnate as Barkin's good-time gal pal.

This kind of genre is already an overdone deal.

Drop Dead Gorgeous hasn't enough structural savvy to make it a winner.

Funny and sharply satiric!

Beneath its mean-spiritedness is a sharp-clawed wit.

So passe that the movie is virtually dead on arrival!

The ideas are funnier than the images.

Incompetent and silly!

As mean-spirited as movies come!

Fitfully amusing!

Crude and witless!

The target may be a bit obvious, but the laughs are often there.

Drop Dead Gorgeous is a satire of beauty contests, which is simultaneously beating a dead horse and kicking a stubborn mule.

Although the satire is biting and the tone is irreverent, Drop Dead Gorgeous lacks the killer script and top notch performances necessary to make this a wholly successful production.

A mockumentary of numbingly unfunny proportions!

Williams, however, thinks we should be tickled just by the mere mention of cow-tipping, lutefisk and Melissa Manchester. ... Poor people living in trailer parks and wearing polyester -- pretty witty stuff, this.

If a movie billed as a comedy has not a single laugh, can it still be called a comedy?

Relentlessly defective!

In this movie you can literally spot the seam where it crosses the line from the really good section to the completely botched one.

Viciously funny!

It all feels a bit like an uninspired take on Christopher Guest's genuinely hilarious Waiting for Guffman.

Drop Dead Gorgeous is drop dead hysterical!

simply silly fun

Humorously effective!