
Celeste Talbert has been the queen of the soaps for over two decades. Montana Moorehead needs to get her out of her way before she can move on and begins her program to get her to leave. She hires an old boyfriend of Celeste to be on the show and has Celeste become a murderer in the script, but each attempt has unforseen consequences.... (Full plot summary below)
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Celeste Talbert has been the queen of the soaps for over two decades. Montana Moorehead needs to get her out of her way before she can move on and begins her program to get her to leave. She hires an old boyfriend of Celeste to be on the show and has Celeste become a murderer in the script, but each attempt has unforseen consequences.
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| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleA spirited and amusing comedy that posits the engaging notion that the stars of TV soap operas have lives as screwed up and crazy as the characters they play, if not more so. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksA riotous spoof of TV soap operas and the people who create them, the clever foundation being that the backstage lives of the principles are more sudsy than the TV program they work on. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIf it doesn't work, it fails spectacularly, but it does work, and it succeeds in making its plot clear even though the basic story device is unending confusion. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenSoapdish, directed with good-natured zest by Michael Hoffman, has as serious a split-personality problem as any of its characters, perhaps because its screenplay is the work of Robert Harling (who wrote the story) and Andrew Bergman, two screenwriters with decidedly different comic sensibilities. |
| Needcoffee.comWidgett WallsStarts off funny, ends up ludicrously funny. Recommended. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfSoapdish is a flurry of activity without a dedicated core, neutering displays of slapstick and the force of the satiric crescent kick. |
| Hollywood.comBetsy BozdechHilarious '90s soap opera spoof: sexual innuendo, cursing. |
| Common Sense MediaRenee SchonfeldHilarious '90s soap opera spoof; sexual innuendo, cursing. |
| Film4Richard LuckA funny, sharply-written film more pertinent in the Noughties than it was upon its first release. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonLines like this are amusing, but they pop instantly, like soap bubbles. |