Rent Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
3.3 of 5 from 105 ratings
1h 24min
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- Synopsis:
- Allen rises to the occasion with several hysterical vignettes that probe sexuality's stickiest issues! Aphrodisiacs prove effective for a court jester (Woody Allen) who finds the key to the Queen's (Lynn Redgrave) heart - but learns that the key to her chastity belt might be more useful. Unnatural acts get wild and woolly when a good doctor (Gene Wilder) falls for a fickle sheep. Jack Barry gives fetishism 20 questions on a wacky TV show called "What's My Perversion?" Sex-research goes under the microscope when a mad scientist (John Carradine) unleashes a monstrous, marauding breast. And the absurdity comes to a frenzied climax with Tony Randall, Burt Reynolds and Allen as sperm...having second thoughts about ejaculation!
- Actors:
- Woody Allen, Gene Wilder, Louise Lasser, John Carradine, Lou Jacobi, Anthony Quayle, Tony Randall, Lynn Redgrave, Burt Reynolds, Jack Barry, Erin Fleming, Elaine Giftos, Toni Holt Kramer, Robert Q. Lewis, Heather MacRae, Pamela Mason, Sidney Miller, Regis Philbin, Titos Vandis, Stanley Adams
- Directors:
- Woody Allen
- Producers:
- Charles H. Joffe
- Writers:
- David Reuben, Woody Allen
- Studio:
- MGM
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Romance
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Films About Television: Part 1, A Few More Screen Princes, All the Twos: 1972-2012, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 Films of 1972, Top Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 26/09/2016
- Run Time:
- 88 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (2) of Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask
Just TOO dated - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask review by PL
There was a time when this might have been considered a cool and humorous glimpse of sexual taboos. Alas, time has not been kind to this film which now is so dated, unprovocatively un-pc and simply not funny. Gene Wilder briefly brings a smile to the Sheep sketch but otherwise there are better ways to spend 90 minutes.
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Sex Comedy. - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask review by Steve
Woody Allen took the title and some of the chapter headings from a contemporary non fiction book addressing sexual anxiety and constructed a collection of comic sketches on the theme of erotic diversity. Time has taken the edge off how outrageous they once seemed, but that's partly because this was so influential.
It's Woody at his most farcical. There's little verbal wit. They are pastiches which operate on the edge of good taste; what we now call gross-out comedy. Like Gene Wilder's affair with a sheep. The characters explore their ludicrous fetishes and the actors play it very straight and the comedy is the contrast between the two.
My favourite episode is the one where where Woody and Louise Lasser engage in public sex, in a very close pastiche of the arthouse films of Michelangelo Antonioni. More typical is the Universal horror send up with the locals smothered to death by an enormous rampant breast.
It works because the cast gets the surreal tone of the comedy just right. Lynn Redgrave stands out as a medieval queen stuck in her chastity belt- having been given an aphrodisiac. It was a genre that arrived more fully with the National Lampoon franchise (such as Animal House) and The Kentucky Fried Movie in the late '70s.
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