Joy of Sex

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Richard W. @rdwoolf May 13 Well, this isn’t the worst film I’ve seen…which isn’t a good way to start a review. I think I understand what they were hoping to make. It feels like they wanted another Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Or even another Valley Girl, which is a great film directed by Martha Coolidge the year before. But I might be giving it too much credit. After listening to interviews on the Cinématographe Blu-ray, and reading a little about it, they probably were going for a more raunchier Porky’s vibe. It’s a film trying to be a romantic comedy about teenage girl’s in high school and a raunchy comedy where the boys do anything to get laid and the adult men also try to end up in sexual situations with teenage undressed girls. In the 80s that was funny. In 2026, it’s just creepy. Either way they failed to be either. It kinda falls flat. Also, am I the only one who noticed the lead actors playing high school student look like they’re in their late 20s? It’s not terrible, but also not good. It’s meh. See more thiago s @Thiagostone 03/17/2025 Filme ruim, o roteiro é ruim, as cenas são ruins demais, o elenco é mais ou menos e ninguém ajudou a melhorar o filme, a história é fraca, o filme fala sobre sexo e nem tem cenas de sexo direito, vai toma no cu, eu não recomendo esse filme ruim. See more Horror fan 4 @Horrorfan4life 04/20/2024 This movie is Porky's without boob's. You'd think a rated R movie would have some but no. There was no sex no joy. However the cast is stacked and I recognized a lot of people. If it wasn't for the cast this movie would get a 1 star. I do recommend this movie just because it's a 1980's film. See more 06/08/2021 Did everybody's parents have a copy of Dr. Alex Comfort's The Joy of Sex? What a frightening book that was, what with its Chris Foss (Flash Gordon, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jodorowsky's Dune) illustrations of incredibly hairy flower children engaging in all manner of marital congress. Paramount Pictures thought that with the name of the book, they'd have a big movie, too. They spent all kinds of money to get the right and then paid Charles Grodin — who was told the movie could be about anything — to write the script. So he wrote a script about writing the script. That movie was eventually made as Movers & Shakers. Next, John Hughes was to write a script that Penny Marshall would have directed and John Belushi would have starred in, but then Belushi died. That would have been a National Lampoon movie and the studio tried to keep their name on the film before the publisher, Matty Simmons, made a huge deal of the Lampoon having nothing to do with the film. Finally, Paramount was running out of time and had just four months left on their option. They went to TV producer Frank Konigsberg, who said "They knew that in television you do things quickly. We threw together a script. They wanted me to use director Martha Coolidge, who'd just made Valley Girl. It was a job. We just had to get it done. I didn't think it was a successful movie at all. It was awful. Martha hated it. I hated it." As for Coolidge, she would say, "Paramount insisted on topless girls running down the hall because they thought the formula demanded it and it was totally gratuitous. I hated putting them in for no reason and argued against it. But when the film was previewed the audience, particularly young women and girls, hated the nudity so Paramount then asked me to cut as much of it out as I could!" She described that experience as miserable, telling her official site, "We were under constant pressure and scrutiny to do the impossible, we had eight days of prep, 20 days to shoot and my A.D. quit because he was so angry." By the end, she applied for an Alan Smithee credit for her directing. However, her name stayed on. She'd follow it up with Real Genius, which I hope was a more rewarding experience (It was — despite turning it down twice, once it was rewritten, she came around to the film and really got into it after producer Brian Grazer told her, "Making a movie should be fun!" She said that he ended up being "supportive, great to be around and knowledgeable about comedy and film production."). As for the movie, it's all about high school senior Leslie Hindenberg (Judy from Revenge of the Nerds, who left acting to practice Zen Buddhism), who gets a mole looked at and learns that she only has six months to live. That leaves her with one goal in life: to lose her virginity. There's a good cast with Cameron Dye (Valley Girl, Out of the Dark) as the love interest and Christopher Lloyd as Leslie's gym teacher dad, plus Colleen Camp, Ernie Hudson, Darren Dalton and Canadian scream queen Lisa Langlois (Happy Birthday to Me, Deadly Eyes). But otherwise, if you were expecting something better, this isn't it. I don't blame Coolidge for the failure of this film. See more 04/04/2012 taught me nothing about sex, but loved it any way. See more 01/20/2011 A great teen sex comedy, I really enjoyed it, it's both dramatic and hilarious, and the cast is perfect. I highly recommend it. See more Read all reviews

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