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duane wrote on 08/16/2011:

"Getting Played" is, quite simply, a pure and utter joy, a freewheeling, high-spirited romantic/sex comedy that evokes equal portions of laughter and lust. Vivica A. Fox--here, to her great credit, toning down her frequently-annoying sistah-from-the-'hood style--Carmen Electra, and Stacey Dash are magnificently sexy and magnificently engaging as the three L. A. she-babes who make a bet that they can seduce a man on sight. Mark Bellamy cuts a handsome and appealing figure as the man very much in question (Also contributing: this one sequence--it turns out that it's part of a film Vivica's character is making--between her and this one cheerful, sexy, intensely drool-worthy bare-chested black dude when she breaks into his house). The entire film deftly maintains a tone of good-humored camaraderie and playful sexiness (although there is, alas, a sequence between Vivica's character and the character of Vivica's agent--Vivica portrays an actress in the picture--where the two engage in "street" yammer that mightily intrudes upon the flick's adroit tone of light-hearted good-naturedness). And, at the end, when Bellamy winds up with Stacey, who is depicted throughout as a fiercely reluctant participant in the exercise, we join Vivica and Carmen in looking on warmly and happily, greatly pleased at the happy ending. Really and truly, "Getting Played" provides 79 firmly pleasing minutes of laughs and sex appeal and just may be the sexiest, most charming, most altogether appealing film since "Boomerang."