# A Movie With Dumbass Women and Her Dumbass Friends **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701 "2009-01-17T03:33:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/1 "2009-01-17T03:33:15Z")
I always see movies about a man and a woman. Now the man is usually teetering on being a good guy or a dumbass. Then, of course, something happens and his dumbass friend has to come live with the couple. And then more dumbass friends visit the dumbass friends and the man winds up becoming a dumbass. All with predictable hilarious results My question is this, is there a movie or movies with the reverse. Where you have a man and a woman, and the woman is the dumbass and has all her dumbass friends come over a wreak havoc ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/2 "2009-01-17T05:10:54Z")
My Best Friend’s Wedding? ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/3 "2009-01-17T05:16:31Z")
Sex and the City ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/4 "2009-01-17T05:19:35Z")
> [@Amp](#): > > Sex and the City I believe you missed the qualification of teetering between good and dumbass. 😉 (Manolo’s forgive me, but it had to be said) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/5 "2009-01-17T13:20:35Z")
**Anything Else** by Woody Allen, with Christina Ricci ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/6 "2009-01-17T13:36:19Z")
_House Bunny_, which I watched recently in the misplaced hope that the woman wouldn’t be a dumbass. She was, and so were the other women. The guy she liked wasn’t though. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/7 "2009-01-17T13:40:05Z")
Steel Magnolias. What? ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/8 "2009-01-17T13:51:39Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > My question is this, is there a movie or movies with the reverse. Where you have a man and a woman, and the woman is the dumbass and has all her dumbass friends come over a wreak havoc Porn? ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/9 "2009-01-17T14:30:18Z")
Let’s go with “My big fat greek wedding”. Partially because it’s written by a woman it’s very much the reverse of the male-centric rom-com: John Corbett plays the equivalent of the perfect pedestal-sitting girlfriend and is completely nice and caring and always right, while writer-star Nia Vardalos is a nervous wreck whose insecurities are accentuated by the supporting cast consisting of her family. ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/10 "2009-01-17T14:33:22Z")
_The Sweetest Thing_ is pretty much like this. But it’s hysterical. I thought it was going to be an irritating chick-flick but it wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/11 "2009-01-17T15:59:57Z")
Yeah, _The Sweetest Thing_ is what came to mind when I saw the thread title. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/12 "2009-01-17T18:36:34Z")
I think [Jenny McCarthy](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000189/) has a couple of these type of movies with such titles as [John Tucker Must Die](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455967/) and [Dirty Love](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455967/) That one where the cheerleaders rob a bank… [Sugar&Spice](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186589/). ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/13 "2009-01-17T18:39:07Z")
> [@Sr\_Siete](#): > > Let’s go with “My big fat greek wedding”. Partially because it’s written by a woman it’s very much the reverse of the male-centric rom-com: John Corbett plays the equivalent of the perfect pedestal-sitting girlfriend and is completely nice and caring and always right, while writer-star Nia Vardalos is a nervous wreck whose insecurities are accentuated by the supporting cast consisting of her family. _Male-centric romantic comedy_? I understand the definitions of all of those separately, but I don’t think they can be used together. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/14 "2009-01-17T21:37:16Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > _Male-centric romantic comedy_? I understand the definitions of all of those separately, but I don’t think they can be used together. There’s plenty of romantic comedies with guys as main characters. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/15 "2009-01-17T21:46:22Z")
> [@Sr\_Siete](#): > > There’s plenty of romantic comedies with guys as main characters. Name one. Just because a guy is on screen the majority of the time doesn’t exactly make it male-centric. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/16 "2009-01-17T21:56:27Z")
Surely the finest example of the genre would be a film with the plot: ‘When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school’. And she invokes the rest of her sorority to join her campaign… So of course we have the multi award-winning [Legally Blonde!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250494/) 😃 Plus the fine follow-up, imaginatively entitled … [Legally Blonde 2!!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0333780/) ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/17 "2009-01-17T22:11:01Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Surely the finest example of the genre would be a film with the plot: > > ‘When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school’. Except she turns out to be not at all a dumbass, and kicks her ex’s ass at Harvard Law school. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/18 "2009-01-17T22:14:00Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Name one. Just because a guy is on screen the majority of the time doesn’t exactly make it male-centric. **Roxanne** , Steve Martin is the main protagonist. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/19 "2009-01-17T22:47:05Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Name one. Just because a guy is on screen the majority of the time doesn’t exactly make it male-centric. Something About Mary Meet the Parents 50 First Dates Arthur ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701/20 "2009-01-17T22:56:14Z")
Just thought of a real answer: Clueless [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-movie-with-dumbass-women-and-her-dumbass-friends/481701.md?page=2)