YAS
Joined Nov 1999
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The original French release of this film contains, as you might expect from the title, lots of explicit sex. However, the US/British version was severely censored, with all the sex and most of the nudity removed, which, if you think about it, is pretty silly for a film with that title. The trouble is, most of the people selling this DVD/Blu-Ray don't tell you which it is they're offering. The ONLY way to know is to check the run time -- the French (complete) version is 85 minutes long, with no English subtitles, and the bowdlerized "safe" version is 79 minutes and has English subtitles. Still waiting for the full version WITH subtitles as my French is good but not that good.
At first I thought this was going to be one of those entertaining "seduction" (or "attempted seduction") movies, on the order of Radley Metzger's 1975 confection SCORE. Alas, in the 50 years since that one came out, timidity has overcome Hollywood and this poor lame tale, which probably started out as a clever stage play, becomes a fiesta of fake rubber genitalia and you can practically see all the scars in the screenplay where the timid makers said "Oh we better not say/do that, someone might be offended" so they take the vanilla road instead. Overall, a wasted opportunity to make a cutting black comedy turns into a piffling thing that could have been made for TV.
I wanted to like this, too (didn't everyone?), but, alas. It's like a compendium of all the things I DISlike about "Dr Who" without any of the redemptive things that kept me watching that series. A title character so flighty and twee that without the saving grace of any (discernible) humor, I just want to slap him and send him home. A plot that's all over the place without much of anything to tie it together. All it really lacks to be totally horrible is a laugh track, and I can't imagine how they missed that.
I got through the first two episodes, hoping it would pull itself together, but it never did, instead just piling on more apparently-unrelated characters and situations. It's like a bad sketch comedy without the comedy. Elijah Wood is wasted on this.
I got through the first two episodes, hoping it would pull itself together, but it never did, instead just piling on more apparently-unrelated characters and situations. It's like a bad sketch comedy without the comedy. Elijah Wood is wasted on this.