Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

I've enjoyed most of David O. Russell's movies and I know it's supposed to be screwball comedy and all, but this one had a few too many goofy, contrived plot twists for my taste—like when gay ATF agent Richard Jenkins impulsively decides to follow a guy he's never met before (and whose wife his committed gay partner's been flirting with) all the way to New Mexico to help him find his birth parents. I liked the scenes where Stiller and Téa Leoni get so wrapped up in each other that they start knocking over the furniture, but it didn't seem like Téa was really pulling her weight the rest of the time, and though I was impressed by the outside-the-box casting choice of MTM as the nudzhy Jewish mother, I was kind of hoping her character wouldn't show up again after the opening scenes. Finally, I couldn't really buy Alan Alda and Lily Tomlin as desert-rat drug dealers, though I enjoyed the antics of their sociopathic teenage son. I know Russell goes in for these big ensemble comedies with everybody yelling and carrying on, but this time, as with "Silver Linings Playbook" a few years back, it seemed like the plot was already spinning out of control with 20 or 30 frantic, not-sot-funny minutes left to go. Eight stars for the first 45′, four for the second.

Non stop hilarity from start to finish - if you haven't seen this movie you really need to ASAP.Great script, and the amazing ensemble cast is fantastic. David O Russell's first film is his best, as well as one of the seminal comedies of the 1990s.One of those rare comedies that I can watch over and over - the soundtrack fits the film like a glove. Ben Stiller has made quite a few movies since this early one, but none come close to this one (with the exception of There's Something About Mary).See this film - you won't be sorry.

This movie was what I would call "Okay" but some of the scenes were a little too contrived and too predictable. I did like Lilly Tomlin and Alan Alda, and Patricia Arquette was good also. But I found the direction rather odd. Some scenes done with a hand held camera come off as amateurish - like they couldn't afford a steady came so they had the guy walk with the camera. Also several shots seem to be done from a moving car - again, kind of amateurish. The strangest thing i thought was the lighting and over all feel of the film. There is absolutely no warmth to the filming at all. It almost looked like the entire thing was shot for television on video. Ben Stiller was good though. I usually like his films and characters.

I don't want to rehash what others have said so all I'm gonna say is this: Flirting with Disaster is a phenomenal funny movie and truly one of my all time favorites. It has never gotten the respect it deserves. It was ahead of it's time in 1996 and even now, I guess some people just don't get it. When I read reviews that pan this an say it's not funny - well.... I have to question the reviewer. I'm starting to think that anyone who DOESN'T see the humor in this movie must not have a sense of humor at all. If you don't get the funny in Flirting - you may have lost your funny bone somewhere. How can anyone NOT laugh at this movie???????????It makes me feel...... vivid.....