The Sweetest Thing is what happens when you try to expand the hair gel scene in There’s Something About Mary to an entire movie and make the women the protagonists. There are three women on the poster, but Selma Blair’s character is barely present except as a butt of jokes. As I watched The Sweetest Thing, I wondered how it ended up in my queue. Answer: Parker Posey appears in it briefly and brilliantly! The Sweetest Thing has funny moments and was clearly going for a postmodern pastiche of self-aware cinematic allusions in a rom com, which I normally love, but it felt forced, self-conscious and like it had a crass quota per scene. Seriously an exploding urinal AND a glory hole in one scene may be a bit much. Also there were two scenes where the title was worked into the scene self-consciously, which left me more confused than I was initially. Were the filmmakers trying for a deeper meaning to The Sweetest Thing than I initially thought and perhaps overlooked? Maybe. Don’t care. If I was feeling generous, I would perhaps call it Sex and the City meets the Farrelly Brothers, but it felt more like a sketch comedy tied together with the thinnest of threads. I enjoyed the cast. The material was theoretically hilarious, but The Sweetest Thing needed to gel together more as a cohesive whole. Definitely don’t watch The Sweetest Thing if you have a low tolerance for sexual humor.