......and my wife and I really liked it.
The Link
We thought it was well made and hilarious, insightful and realistic, even while being raunchy and lewd.
We, of course, aren't offended by raunchy and lewd, especially after almost 38 years of marriage.
We didn't do every bit of of the stuff that was in this movie back in the day when we were the same age of the characters in this flick, but we did most of it and more.
If you found enjoyable entertainment and meaningful cinema in "Boogie Nights" and "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion," you could enjoy this movie unless using the f word or the p word or the c words in realistic, even while over the top, movie dialog completely turns you off.
The on screen conversations here would have certainly labored without those words.
And there was some nudity, both frontal and backal.
This is a realistic farce, wherein the plot and dialog are boiled down and condensed to set some boundaries and to move the story along.
That all worked for me and my partner.
The characters' stereotypes all worked for us too.
Have a couple of drinks and enjoy it unless you went to Baylor.
If you went to Baylor, have a couple of Dr. Peppers and enjoy it anyway.
Think of the Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney "Let's put on a show" classics and "The Break Up" with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Anniston to complete the vibe.
And the independent, low budget, clever soft core work from Baltimore's John Waters from the '70s and 80s, "Pink Flamingos," "Female Trouble" and "Mondo Trasho."
I believe the Marx Brothers would have starred in "Groucho and Chico Make a Porno" had the times they worked in allowed it.
It was tastefully beyond Shakespearean in bawdiness and like burlesque or even strip club humor, if literacy and meaning played a bigger part in what those bump and grind and lap dance venues offer.
I do this movie a disservice by typing so many words about its sexual aspects, because it's simply a relationship movie about good friends making a porno flick.
Remember "The Commitments," where out of work Brits formed and made music in a R&B band, or "The Full Monty," when unemployed English workers put on a Chippendale's show?
This movie is like those, just sexier and American.
In fact, I find this film OK to recommend to anyone who doesn't get immediately offended by the raunchy, lewd stuff I've mentioned and who feels free to go to bed naked whenever they want to.
The Link
We thought it was well made and hilarious, insightful and realistic, even while being raunchy and lewd.
We, of course, aren't offended by raunchy and lewd, especially after almost 38 years of marriage.
We didn't do every bit of of the stuff that was in this movie back in the day when we were the same age of the characters in this flick, but we did most of it and more.
If you found enjoyable entertainment and meaningful cinema in "Boogie Nights" and "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion," you could enjoy this movie unless using the f word or the p word or the c words in realistic, even while over the top, movie dialog completely turns you off.
The on screen conversations here would have certainly labored without those words.
And there was some nudity, both frontal and backal.
This is a realistic farce, wherein the plot and dialog are boiled down and condensed to set some boundaries and to move the story along.
That all worked for me and my partner.
The characters' stereotypes all worked for us too.
Have a couple of drinks and enjoy it unless you went to Baylor.
If you went to Baylor, have a couple of Dr. Peppers and enjoy it anyway.
Think of the Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney "Let's put on a show" classics and "The Break Up" with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Anniston to complete the vibe.
And the independent, low budget, clever soft core work from Baltimore's John Waters from the '70s and 80s, "Pink Flamingos," "Female Trouble" and "Mondo Trasho."
I believe the Marx Brothers would have starred in "Groucho and Chico Make a Porno" had the times they worked in allowed it.
It was tastefully beyond Shakespearean in bawdiness and like burlesque or even strip club humor, if literacy and meaning played a bigger part in what those bump and grind and lap dance venues offer.
I do this movie a disservice by typing so many words about its sexual aspects, because it's simply a relationship movie about good friends making a porno flick.
Remember "The Commitments," where out of work Brits formed and made music in a R&B band, or "The Full Monty," when unemployed English workers put on a Chippendale's show?
This movie is like those, just sexier and American.
In fact, I find this film OK to recommend to anyone who doesn't get immediately offended by the raunchy, lewd stuff I've mentioned and who feels free to go to bed naked whenever they want to.
