R, 95 min.
Directors/Writers: Alex
Gregory, Peter Huyck
Starring: Jason Sudeikis,
Tyler Labine, Leslie Bibb, Lake Bell, Michelle Borth, Nick Kroll, Lindsay
Sloane, Angela Sarafyan, Martin Starr, Rhys Coiro, Will Forte, Lucy Punch
I’m not sure how old
fashioned the orgy in “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” is. That’s not an area of
expertise I posses. What I do know is movies, and what “A Good Old Fashioned
Orgy” is not is a good old-fashioned raunchy sex comedy. In fact, it does a
rare thing in comedy today. It takes itself seriously—perhaps a little too
seriously.
The biggest problem with “A
Good Old Fashioned Orgy” is that it just isn’t funny enough. It follows a group
of old high school friends that have a grand tradition of throwing the most
amazing summer house parties. They are afforded this ability because one of
them has a family summerhouse that is never occupied by either of his separated
parents. Their tradition makes for a great escape from the daily grind of their
adult lives. All of this is threatened, however, when the guy’s father decides
to sell the house. They’ll have to have one last bash. To make it special, they
decide to make it an orgy.
The movie seriously deals
with all the implications involved when a group of close friends decides to do
the whole naked sharing thing. This makes the movie interesting, if not as
entertaining as it might have otherwise been. The movie loses its momentum in
the build up to the special event. The orgy itself is much funnier than the
rest of the movie without ever descending into full raunch and without
compromising the more realistic approach to the subject. Unfortunately, the
movie has already lost its spark long before it gets to the orgy.
Jason Sudeikis and company
try their best, but most of the material dealing with the character’s
relationships leading up to the orgy is kind of worn and flat. Sudeikis has
some funny moments with his natural ability to make fun of uncomfortable
situations, but it’s not enough to carry the film through to its comedic focal
point. Frankly, this movie could’ve used a much higher dose of “Caddyshack” and
less of how these people really felt about it.
Warning! Red Band trailer
contains explicit language that could only be expected in a movie with the
title “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy”.
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