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D.E.B.S.
Samuel Goldwyn Films / Sony Pictures Entertainment

D.E.B.S. reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 42 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
6.8 out of 10
based on 21 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual content and language

Starring Sara Foster, Jordana Brewster, Devon Aoki, Jill Ritchie, Meagan Good, Michael Clarke Duncan, Holland Taylor, and Geoff Stults

Recruited by the U.S. Government for their unique ability to lie, cheat and fight, Amy, Max, Janet and Dominique join an underground academy of secret agents known only as D.E.B.S. These crime fighting hotties set out to save the world and keep their lipstick perfectly applied while doing so. (Sony)


GENRE(S): Action  |  Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Angela Robinson  
DIRECTED BY: Angela Robinson  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: June 7, 2005 
Theatrical: March 25, 2005 
RUNNING TIME: 91 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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80
The Hollywood Reporter Duane Byrge
Splashed and accessorized with brainy nonsense, "D.E.B.S." is a "H.O.O.T."
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75
Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt
So what started as a female "Agent Cody Banks" happily and seamlessly becomes so much more, with style and substance existing in unusual harmony for a spy spoof.
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75
New York Daily News Staff (Not credited)
Cute, campy and as proudly insubstantial as its heroines' micro-miniskirts, D.E.B.S. deftly fulfills its Jane Bond fantasies without so much as breaking a nail.
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70
TV Guide Ken Fox
The terrific soundtrack, which includes the Only Ones' "Another Girl, Another Planet" and New Order's most excellent "Temptation," is heavily weighted towards the '80s, which is exactly as it should be.
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70
Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
For an unabashedly silly spoof of a girly action flick, D.E.B.S. is unexpectedly fresh, thanks mostly to the sweetly exuberant love story at its center.
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70
Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
If you didn't like "Charlie’s Angels," there’s a good chance you'll enjoy the smarter, sexier D.E.B.S.
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70
Washington Post Stephen Hunter
It's so spoofy it's difficult to call 'good' or even 'bad'; just say it's smooth.
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63
New York Post Kyle Smith
The gags run thin after half an hour or so.
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63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jennie Punter
The most endearing aspect of D.E.B.S., a sweet-spirited spoof, is that the lesbian romance is played for real, with no nudge-nudge wink-wink irony.
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60
Village Voice Laura Sinagra
Aims for a mix of "Heathers" wit and "Batman" TV-show camp.
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50
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Alas, the movie isn't nearly as amusing as its premise, but it's refreshingly different from most run-of-the-mill teenage fare.
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50
San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
A lumpy concoction.
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50
USA Today Staff (Not credited)
But even by the dull standards of movies so far this year, it seems mighty piffling.
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40
Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
This forced spoof seems to be targeted at lesbian couples and hetero men with severe schoolgirl fetishes; that may be a legitimate market, but I'd hate to be sitting between them.
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40
The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
An incorrigible tease. It baits its audience with the promise of fluffy, light-footed cotton-candy fare, but delivers a clumsy, talky, indifferently filmed lesbian romance.
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40
LA Weekly Ernest Hardy
Doesn't live up to its genre-crossing, parodic ambitions.
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38
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
At some point during the pitch meetings for D.E.B.S. someone must certainly have used the words "Charlie's Lesbians."
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25
Rolling Stone Peter Travers
You might think there's no downside to a movie that peeks up the skirts of babes in micro-minis, but writer-director Angela Robinson's dimwitted satire is libido-killing proof to the contrary.
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20
The New York Times Stephen Holden
The film has no idea of how to develop its one-joke premise. The tepid love scenes are as erotically charged as a home movie of a little girl hugging her Barbie doll, and the satire as cutting as the blunt edge of a plastic butter knife.
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10
Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
A hideously unfunny spy spoof with pretensions to social satire in its treatment of a lesbian relationship.
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0
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The movie has no wit, no charm, no cleverness, no traction. Simply put, it is no fun.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 6.8 (out of 10) based on 14 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Sa L. gave it a1:
The worst movie i have ever seen in my life!!! 2 those who give it better then 5... were u watching the same movie? it has a horrible, stupid, irashinale plot.. the vilan is just plain dumb! the villan isnt even evil

Zack L. gave it a0:
I wasn't expecting to see a masterful film when I rented this movie, but was hoping to have fun with it. Instead, I had 0 fun. This is as dull, charmless, idiotic and unentertaining as movies will ever get.

sheila c gave it a10:
This film works when viewed with an open heart and with your sense of humour switched on. On one level a warm gentle lesbian love story, and on another a really good example of a genre that works best when (as here) it doesn't take itself too seriously. Total fun.

Kat K. gave it a9:
People get it or don't get it. It's a light hearted spoof, doesn't take it'self serious movie, played for campy fun and a smile on your face. I found it a hoot in some places and put a smile on my face for the most part.

Cheryl S. gave it a10:
You need to be a lesbian to love it.>

Alexis R. gave it a10:
I liked very much... lite funny, excelent actresses and real romance performance. Specially Jordana Brewster she is beautiful and ext. sexy.

Les D. gave it a3:
Likes to think its a lot smarter,but in the end is just another conventional dumb teen movie with all the usual stereotypes and one note characters maybe if joss whedon had wrote it.

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