rating:
(out of
4 stars)United States; 1998
Directed by Don Roos; produced by Michael Besman, David Kirkpatrick; written by Don Roos
Starring Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Galecki, William Lee Scott
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
The best thing in 'The Opposite of Sex' is Christina Ricci's voice-over.
Most of the jokes come from her spoken lines. She even comments on her own
comments, and on the movie itself. Other things are nice as well in this
story about a pregnant girl named Dede (Christine Ricci), her gay brother
Bill (Martin Donovan), his old boyfriend Tom who died of AIDS, Tom's sister
Lucia (Lisa Kudrow) who is probably in love with Bill and Bill's new
boyfriend Matt (Ivan Sergei) who runs away with Dede and 10,000 dollars from
Bill.
This is the set-up for the movie that also involves a cop named Carl (Lyle
Lovett), who wants to know whether a boy named Jason (Johnny Galecki) tells
the truth or not. He says that Bill, a teacher, made him do stuff. I could
explain the story a little more but it jumps up and forth so many times I
wouldn't really help you. Although it seems a little mess from time to time,
it is fun to watch a movie where you sometimes have no idea what will happen
next.
So the story, although a mess, makes sure we have other funny moments. Most
of them come from comments, by Dede's voice-over, but also from Lucia who
seems to be the only person who understands how stupid everybody is acting.
Although I was reminded a couple of times of her Phoebe-character in
'Friends', Kudrow did a pretty good job with her performance. Others, like
Donovan and Lovett, did their job pretty nice as well.
The comments made by Dede show us that the movie understand itself, doesn't
take itself too seriously, and therefore we are able to like it. At least I
was.