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Evil Woman
(Saving Silverman)

Review by James Anthony


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We've all met them, people who drop their friends like hot rocks as soon as a new boy/girl appears on the scene.

Usually they are horrendously desperate types who have so little self esteem - or are just so lonely - that even the appearance of a tosser (or absolute cow) is better than nothing.

In Evil Woman, Darren (Jason Biggs) is just a loser. A nice guy, but a loser nonetheless. He's desperate for a gal and when he meets Judith (Amanda Peet) he's head over heels.

Not that he should be, because the girl is an absolute bee-ach who regards him as her puppet. He has to do as he's told, drop his mates and is not allowed to have sex - although I have to 'fess up to one of his tasks being an extremely interesting prospect.

Horrified by what they see, his also-loser friends Wayne (Steve Zahn) and JD (Jack Black) vow to save their mate from a chick they see as Hannibal Lector.

Peet's role is very similar to the one she played in Whipped, although this movie is not as basic and is aimed more at the American Pie audience than the Whipped mob.

Her outfits are just stunningly over the top - or should that be only just around her top. But, it has to be said, her talents are not exactly pushed in this and another role like her one in The Whole Nine Yards must be getting close.

Wayne and JD's plan involves everything - including kidnapping the evil one - and, as luck would have it, a long-lost love of Darren's arrives back on the scene.

She is Sandy Perkus (Amanda Detmer) and what starts off as old firends meeting turns into begins a nice little romance.

The usually ever-so-serious, drill-sergeant-like R. Lee Ermey also appears in Evil Woman as the rather misguided coach and he is unbelievably off-beat (and funny).

Sorry people, I quite enjoyed this movie - and unleashed more than a few loud guffaws throughout it. It will amuse chaps more than the gals, although I have no doubts that many women would want to have the sort of control Peet's character has over a bloke.

Conclusion: Movie 75%, Extras 50%

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