Getting Any?

One of the stupidest, most bizarre, and straight up perverted movies I've seen in a long time, but it was friggin' funny as hell. If you can handle 'stupid funny' then this movie is definitely enjoyable. Loosely organized around the fact that this perverted guy wants to score badly.... so he goes off and tries many different means to accomplish this task. The end degenerates into a big of a Godzilla parody, but still funny. be sure to stick around for the end of the credits too.

I don't ever recall writing a user comment for a film before, but considering some other comments here say it is garbage, I thought I would defend it. While this film CAN be considered garbage because it is so stupid and has some of the weirdest parts, you really have to watch this for what it is worth. This film is the single most funny movie I have ever seen in my life. If you can get over the fact at how slap stick and how unlikely it is, this is comic genius. There are so many references in this film also, to thinks like power rangers, road runner and coyote etc. It really is truly funny. This movie is so crazy you'll be on the floor dying of laughter, the comic timing is impeccable, the situations are insane and the outcomes are even more insane. This is the zaniest movie ever made. No it won't change your life, it wont enlighten you, but you WILL laugh.

The general consensus doesn't seem to be that Getting Any? Is Takeshi Kitano's best film by any means, but it might be the one I've enjoyed the most of those I've seen so far. It starts as an increasingly absurd movie about a lonely man going to great lengths to get with girls, only for nothing to work. His life becomes more and more of a joke, with the film becoming a series of movie parodies throughout the second half, including samurai movies, yakuza movies, sci-fi/horror movies, and kaiju movies (there's a pretty fun spin on the Mothra summoning song near the end).

I found its sense of humor to be largely hilarious, but it's probably not for everyone. I found the earlier, more random sequences funnier, even if the later ones did feel more targeted, given it gradually became clearer what certain scenes were intending to parody. But the madness of the first half-hour or so really caught me off guard in the best way possible, and that opening third of Getting Any? Is probably like a 10/10, as far as comedies go.

There aren't many comedies that can keep that kind of energy up for 90 or more minutes, and so it's sad to say that Getting Any? Gets a little less funny as it goes along. But it never lost me, and it never went long without landing a well-executed joke, and so overall, I'd still say it's pretty great... but again, clearly not for everyone. Those who like absurd, cartoonish comedy presented in a blunt and/or awkward fashion will find a lot to like here, and at its best, it honestly has a comparable style of comedy to something like The Blues Brothers.

This Takeshi Kitano movie is all over the map and suffers because of it. He tells a "full-out" comedy that tries to cram everything and the kitchen sink re: other Japanese movies. It starts out with Asao looking for sex and doing every weird thing in the world to try to get it but failing; And ends with him becoming the Flyman. There are funny moments when he is mistaken for a hitman and when he auditions as an actor; but many other moments are tedious. Nowhere as good as Kids Return( 9/10) or Fireworks. Overall, a 5 out of 10.

Takeshi Kitano is worldwide known because of his violent movies such as Brother, Hana-bi, Violent Cop, etc. However in Japan is the other way around, he is mostly known by his comedy tv shows or duo-comedy shows (the two beats), where he got the name "Beat".

Minna Yatteruka! could be Kitano's masterpiece in comedy, but still very difficult to import. At least, Image has released in Hong Kong and USA the DVD of Minna Yatteruka (getting any?) with English subtitles, and we've been able to see the unknown Kitano in a hilarious movie.

First of all, I have to say that I've seen all Kitano movies, even Dolls, and this movie has nothing to do with them, it's a completely different story, has more to do with tv shows he directed like Takeshi's Castle.

So, the movie is just astonishing, it comes from the most stupid situation and developes through gag to gag. One hour and a half of cinema parody fullfiled with Japanese Manga stupidity. The rhythm of the movie is slow, very slow at some points for a comedy, but it's still a good movie. I found parodies from his other yakuza movies, Ultraman, even the gohstbusters! and I'm sure I missed a lot.

Overall Review: A very funny movie, a fresh product, but might be too weird for the general audience. So, if you are interested in the Japanese culture, in Kitano, or if you are openminded for new experiences in comedy, check for it, unless , discard it and look for American Pie.