132) Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 1972
Plot Summary: Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex by David Reuben.
While some would consider it an interesting concept to take a series of sex questions and adapt them into unconnected short stories, the serious lack of good gags makeEverything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex a difficult piece of work to endure.
Allen is clearly trying to recreate the kind of movies that Monty Python had just began making, but his jokes, contrary to the aforementioned British comedians, are simply slapstick, crude and, frankly, a little immature lacking any wit or insight whatsoever. Even those ones that are amusing - and they are few and far between - feel like outtakes from the far superior likes of Life Of Brian and The Holy Grail.
Therefore, because the film sacrifices story and character in favour of comedy and the jokes aren't actually very funny, there's little else to redeem the feature. It's not something well-made by any means, nor is it well acted by its cast, and as the narrative plays out like a series of long jokes, there's no character development to keep you remotely interested. Woody Allen obviously never intended to have any of these things in his movie and that is fair enough, but if you're going to simply make something that will make audiences laugh, then the famous American comedian has to, at the very least, make it funny.
Another very poor effort from Woody Allen who remains, in my opinion, one of the most overrated film-makers in cinema.
2/5
Year: 1972
Plot Summary: Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex by David Reuben.
While some would consider it an interesting concept to take a series of sex questions and adapt them into unconnected short stories, the serious lack of good gags makeEverything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex a difficult piece of work to endure.Allen is clearly trying to recreate the kind of movies that Monty Python had just began making, but his jokes, contrary to the aforementioned British comedians, are simply slapstick, crude and, frankly, a little immature lacking any wit or insight whatsoever. Even those ones that are amusing - and they are few and far between - feel like outtakes from the far superior likes of Life Of Brian and The Holy Grail.
Therefore, because the film sacrifices story and character in favour of comedy and the jokes aren't actually very funny, there's little else to redeem the feature. It's not something well-made by any means, nor is it well acted by its cast, and as the narrative plays out like a series of long jokes, there's no character development to keep you remotely interested. Woody Allen obviously never intended to have any of these things in his movie and that is fair enough, but if you're going to simply make something that will make audiences laugh, then the famous American comedian has to, at the very least, make it funny.
Another very poor effort from Woody Allen who remains, in my opinion, one of the most overrated film-makers in cinema.
2/5
4 comments:
I only really like the sperm bit.
I did laugh at that bit, I'll admit that. :P
You totally ballsed up a "that's what she said" moment. Go sit in the corner.
I totally did. Why I didn't see that I'll never know. Daaaaamn. :(
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