Product Details

• Actors: Jonathan Abrahams, Zorie Barber, Bo Bazylevski, David J. Cohen (II), Marc Courtiol
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English, Italian
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• VHS Release Date: August 28, 2001
• Run Time: 82 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004Z1HZ
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #70,917 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Editorial Reviews

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Quite possibly the most insultingly stupid movie you will ever see. That's saying a lot, but Whipped earns this title through sheer, jaw-dropping narcissism. Writer/director/producer Peter M. Cohen aspires to make a witty and insightful comedy about the battle of the sexes and instead wallows in soggy clichés. Three friends meet every Sunday morning at a diner to discuss the weekend's "exploits." Two fancy themselves to be master scam artists, the other is a compulsive masturbator. All three meet and fall in love with the same woman, Mia (Amanda Peet, The Whole Nine Yards). The truth is swiftly discovered, but none of them want to give her up, so she dates them all while their friendship crumbles. The plot occasionally stops so that one of the characters can talk to the camera and espouse supposed scamster philosophies, and there are "hilarious" slapstick episodes, like when one of them drops Mia's vibrator down the toilet and spatters himself with urine trying to retrieve it. The dialogue is idiotic, the actors are charmless, the situations are labored beyond belief--and the filmmaker adores all of it, dwelling lovingly on every inane moment. Ghastly. For rabid fans of Amanda Peet only. --Bret Fetzer

From The New Yorker

Amanda Peet, who stole "The Whole Nine Yards" from an unbothered Bruce Willis, gets a lead role all to herself and won't let go. She plays Mia, a pleasure-hunting New Yorker, who causes three men-best friends, until she arrives on the scene-to fall in love with her simultaneously. Since the three essentially vie with one another to become the most objectionable, it is hard to work out what joy Mia finds in their company, apart from the satisfaction of watching the male ego, in conjunction with other organs, shrivel and shy away. The movie is a début for the writer and director Peter M. Cohen, and he's desperate to cram in as much as possible; both camera and soundtrack collude with an air of leering panic, and there's never a dull moment, although there's never an interesting one either. The moral is that women have their own strong sexual agenda; the joke is that the movie quaintly presents this as breaking news. -Anthony Lane
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A waste of the actors..., June 18, 2003

By	Ann Holding "ahaddadi" (Hopkinton, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Whipped (DVD)

Every Sunday, a trio of buds get together at a NYC diner to boast about their sexual conquests of the night before. Sometimes they're joined by a newlywed ex-comrade and hoochie hunter who hangs on them like a puling barnacle. They're unabashed horn dogs and corn dogs and Mia, who witnesses them on the prowl, decides that they need to be taught a lesson, dammit. So she'll date and dump - why not? All of them!

Gasp. What a wild idea. What a radical, naughty gal. Women now have the right to date and sleep around as much as they want to. As much as men do, even! Honey, we got the message. We read "Maxim" and "Cosmo" too, okay?

There is one solitary laughable element in "Whipped". Namely the fact that not once, during the amigo's detailed discussions of their bodily functions and the oral talents of the bed partners they trash, do the other customers in the diner turn around and say, "Dude, we're trying to EAT here."

To see quality gross-out humor, try a classic like "Blazing Saddles".

To see love-rat buddies hanging out, slagging and bragging on their women as they eat and imbibe, rent "Swingers". Priceless bits: "How long will you guys wait to call your babies?" "6 days." Plus the luminous Heather Graham.

To see the lovely Amanda Peet at her snarky, man-eating best, try "Saving Silverman", a.k.a. "Evil Woman". That flick also has the sweet Amanda Detmer ("Final Destination"). Plus the excellent Steve Zahn.

But this - merciful God, this. It's truly unfortunate that a buddy movie with a great setting, a smart, cute heroine and three possible pairings had to have such a cop-out ending.

The leads are very attractive and approach the material with relish - let's hope more worthy projects are in their future.

P.S. - 30 "whip-oosh" sound effects to the screenwriter for use of the phrase "You go, girl". It was tired in 2000, and it's tired now.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HILARIOUS, SEE THIS MOVIE, October 9, 2001

By	jen herman (NEW YORK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Whipped (DVD)

A hilarious and insightful perspective of the dating world is portrayed in this off beat comedy by first time writer/director Peter M. Cohen. The story unfolds as the four male protagonists meet weekly at the local diner to confer about their dating woes. We meet Brad: a good-looking, wall-street playboy with a quick-wit and sharp tongue; Zeek: a cynical, sensitive writer; Jonathan: a sexually perplexed nice guy with an affinity for hand creams; and Eric: the married guy, who cherishes his weekly encounters with his single friends in hope for some enlightenment to his boring and banal married existence. The trials and tribulations of the men’s single lives in New York are amusingly expressed, mirroring that of "Sex in the City" and HBO’s new comedy "The Mind of Married Man, and bring an astute light to scamming.
The story takes a twist as the three singletons meet Mia--wittily played by Amanda Peet—and all fall for her. She seduces them each with her uncanny ability to conform to the personalities’ they exhibit. When they come to realize they have all met and fallen in love with the same woman, they chose her over their friendship.
"Whipped" is a realistic portrayal of the dating world, one that the critic’s failed to recognize. In plain language, they missed the point. The protagonist’s here are caricatures of real people. The exaggerations are hysterical, mixing satire and humility, and are not to be taken as seriously as the critic’s disparagement suggests. See this movie, you’ll laugh from start to finish.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Whipped - Worth A Look, February 10, 2001

By	Ian Dark - See all my reviews

This review is from: Whipped (DVD)

If you saw "The Whole Nine Yards" and became an Amanda Peet fan, take heed. "Whipped" is nothing like "The Whole Nine Yards" and neither is Peet's character, Mia. If you're looking for Amanda to repeat the same type of character in this film, you'll be disappointed.

"Whipped" has similarities "In The Company of Men", but is a much lighter and funnier film. The story centers around three men in their twenties who look at sex like a sporting event. Every Sunday they gather at a diner and compare tales of their latest conquests. Everything is going well for the guys until Mia (played by Peet) comes into the picture.

While the script isn't 100% hilarious, it does have some great moments. There are some good lines and a smattering of funny scenes, albeit cynical humor. Rather than write about them, see the movie and judge for yourself.

"Whipped" is not a great film, but it does have some good laughs. If you liked comedies like "Love Stinks" and "After Hours", you'll most likely enjoy "Whipped".