Getting Any?

This is a truly funny film that crosses all boundaries... despite not having English subtitles I was totally gripped by the insanity of the images on display, and Takeshi Kitano's brilliant deadpan performance. It's incredible how such a simplistic tale of a man stumbling from one bizarre situation to another, with little or no rhyme or reason, can be so laugh-out-loud funny.

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.

Not my favourite Takeshi movie but then he did make so many good ones so it's hard to pick. This one has a more scattershot approach and it also goes on a bit too long; the yakuza material around the middle part feels stretched and repetitive as a result. What starts out as a wacky sex comedy becomes more and more wacky as it goes on, leading to spoofs of various film genres as well as the Japanese film industry in and of itself. Quite unlike anything I've seen, even other Takeshi films.

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.

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.