Reception
On its opening weekend, it earned $9,430,667 on 2,670 screens, ranking #3 behind Changing Lanes and Panic Room. It eventually grossed $68,696,770 worldwide.
The Sweetest Thing received negative reviews from critics. The film currently has a 26% "rotten" rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 107 reviews with the consensus: "A collection of hit-or-miss gags tied together by a thin plot". At Metacritic, the film has an average score of 32 out of 100, based on 30 Critics. It was among Ebert & Roeper's "Worst of 2002", in the category "Big Stars in Big Bombs".
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“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
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