"The Love Pill" is perhaps the worst British sex comedy I've seen, which is quite a statement. It's so inept it's impossible to watch. You can't focus on the screen for more than a moment. Scenes begin and end with no sense of purpose. Characters speak with bizarre accents, dress strangely, behave as no one ever has, and the effect is sinister and disturbing. The movie is like a home video filmed in a psychiatric ward, but nowhere near as interesting.
The "plot" - and I had to watch it three times to work this out - is about a lady and some other guy, who disappears from the story immediately, who go to a small town where a bumbling, unattractive young man sells sweets over the counter that are actually aphrodisiacs. The lady brings the young man back to the city where she introduces him to some crazy, repulsive rich guy, with the idea of selling the pills to a bigger market.
In one scene early in the movie, before the action leaves the small town, we see a man hunting with a shotgun. Apparently by accident, he shoots someone else dead. Scene over.
I have to remind you at this point that this is a comedy, and there's no comedy that's sillier than the British sex farce. So what is the above scene doing in the movie? What is the point of it? It would be the equivalent of a rape scene during an episode of "Sesame Street", except for the fact that the scene is shot so badly you can hardly tell what's going on, and you probably won't be paying attention when it happens anyway.
This is a movie about lollies that turn women into sex maniacs, with many scenes of women oh-so-hilariously attacking men in public. Oh, and it features an accidental homicide.
