Despite the slight novelty of having women as its main characters, The Sweetest Thing is a redundant exercise in gross-out humor. Cameron Diaz – returning to There’s Something About Mary territory, but without the benefit of an original script and a director with comic timing – stars as a single girl on the dating scene who stumbles from raunchy sex gag to raunchy sex gag, most of which we’ve been subjected to in some form before. Apparently Diaz plus bodily fluids doesn’t always equal comedic gold.
