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D.E.B.S.
Samuel Goldwyn Films / Sony Pictures Entertainment
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
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Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Angela Robinson
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Angela Robinson
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 7, 2005
Theatrical: March 25, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
91 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

70
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
It's so spoofy it's difficult to call 'good' or even 'bad'; just say it's smooth.

63
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The gags run thin after half an hour or so.

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.

60
Village Voice
Laura Sinagra
Aims for a mix of "Heathers" wit and "Batman" TV-show camp.

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.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
A lumpy concoction.

50
USA Today
Staff (Not credited)
But even by the dull standards of movies so far this year, it seems mighty piffling.

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.

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.

40
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
Doesn't live up to its genre-crossing, parodic ambitions.

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."

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.

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.

10
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
A hideously unfunny spy spoof with pretensions to social satire in its treatment of a lesbian relationship.

0
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The movie has no wit, no charm, no cleverness, no traction. Simply put, it is no fun.


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.
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.
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