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Thursday 25 January 2018

Getting Any? (1995)

Comedy doesn't always travel well, especially when many of the gags are reliant on cultural knowledge that a foreign audience may lack. But even when taking that into account Getting Any? misfires on multiple levels.
The comedy, though well-timed, just isn't funny; and its structure is little more than a series of absurd sketches loosely documenting a hopeless man's desire to have sex in a car. But first he needs a car. His leaps of logic in service of his lascivious goal make no sense, but perhaps that's part of the joke(?).
Along the way it parodies other films/characters, including Lone Wolf and Cub, Zatoichi, the roles of actor Jô Shishido, kaijū (specifically Mothra), The Fly (1986), and, bizarrely, Ghostbusters (1984), all of which are much better films.

1 labolatory [sic] failure out of 5

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