That was an excellent one.

Purely Joyful Movie!

Highly Overrated But Still Good

A Masterpiece!

I really loved this movie. But I went into it expecting something else because of what I'd read in the IMDb summary.While there are moments that will make you feel like you'll die laughing, this is, actually, a very serious movie. It shows different sides to people through the one denominator that binds us all - our sexuality. And, while there are some scenes of sex - I feel like I have to mention it - they weren't made to arouse (so skip the movie if you wanted to get that out of it).This movie shows how far people will go in their selfish need to get their own satisfaction, but it also shows how far people will go to satisfy the ones they love. It shows the lengths they'll go to re- connect with the ones they love, and how easily they can lose contact with the world around them.All of this, of course, would not have been possible without the cast, which was chosen superbly and it shows why, IMHO, Aussie actors are taking over the world stage.

I'm not here to write a novel so I'll get to the point. There were too many characters, and although there was some link between them there was no real connection. The end left me typically flabbergasted as with many Australian films where a late comer ends up in love with a man in a span of ten minutes. It ends with two people dead. I repeat because I need 10 lines. I'm not here to write a novel so I'll get to the point. There were too many characters, and although there was some link between them there was no real connection. The end left me typically flabbergasted as with many Australian films where a late comer ends up in love with a man in a span of ten minutes. It ends with two people dead.

The epitome of a good romantic comedy is usually a Woody Allen for me, and even though I also enjoy the cheaper flicks, I didn't quite think this film would come close to the former, but it does. This film is heart warming and very cleverly written. It was (actually) touching at times and in general really funny. One would think, since it tackles the subject of sex, there would be at least a couple of dumb jokes in there, but there aren't, it's quite amazing. Through it's non-linear writing the movie stays interesting until the end. The acting of all parties involved was stellar!And here comes my spoiler: it's partly tragic! How refreshing, to not sit through a movie that is completely foreseeable and relies on poor plot twists the closer it comes to the end, just in order to wrap up everything nice and neatly. The makers consider the viewer mature enough to not be completely at loss when there is not "happy end" spelled out at the end, figuratively and literally. (And yet there is a happy end...) I can see that some people might have trouble with these open ends for some of the story lines, but they ultimately make the film believable, and, to me, staying realistic is a desirable quality in film and not of disadvantage. Seeing this in a romantic comedy is a healthy change from the norm.

I expected good things from this film that seemed on the surface like it was about exploring love and fetishes. I was shocked by the disturbing messages of mysogyny. The director did a Q&A and talked about how the things in the film were "harmless" yet it involves a vignette that depicts a husband that drugs his wife and drags her around the house unconscious and tries to depict him as a loving spouse. Yeah, the movie got its laughs, but I think a lot of the women in the audience were laughing more out of shock and bandwagon approach than laughing because they thought this was in any way acceptable. It goes to show how far off-base the disconnect really is between a man's perception and humor and the reality of the world women live in. This was telling a sexist joke to a group of women and expecting them to "see it your way". I don't think story lines like this do anything to make the world a more positive place and exemplify how far we still need to go as a society. I also didn't like how reductive and basic fetishes were made out to be. What I saw here was a bunch of cheap shots at humor and jokes that were just immature. There were some decent vignettes and laughs mixed in but as a woman (and a very liberal one at that), even I found these scenes (and passing them off as harmless or funny) very disturbing, as I did the sex offender character and how no one seemed to care about his crimes over something as small as cookies. Totally unrealistic. To be honest, that storyline didn't feel too different to me from the drugged woman, just really creepy unacceptable behavior being passed off as funny, amusing, or no big deal. Yikes. I really have to worry about what messages this person is sending out.