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Low-brow comedy from the USA.
I didn’t watch this one because life is short, too short to dance with ugly women or watch Dave Franco comedies. I watched enough to know that Shipka speaks in an Eastern European accent. I guess I don’t get the humor because there’s a lot of laughter on the sound track and I couldn’t figure out why. Your mileage may vary.
The ratings are incredibly consistent:
Metacritic: 62
Tomato Meter: 59%
Popcorn Meter: 61%
IMDb: 6.1
Critics’ consensus:
Crude, rude, and trying just a little too hard to be edgy, Idiots leaves a sour aftertaste but will satisfy those yearning for a pugnacious comedy full of inspired yucks.
The clip/images come from a CAM and the quality is not good.
Aussie Shore itself has nudity, and two of the contestants post additional material online.
I stumbled on this obscure rom-com while browsing Tuna’s archives. The Movie House review was written by Tuna, which is just about a sure sign that I’ve never seen it. I don’t remember it, period, which is surprising because it has a little nudity from two well-known stars, including Mariel’s factory originals.
Here’s what I know:
* There is no Tomato Meter.
* It scores 21% on the Popcorn Meter
* It tops out at 4.8 on IMDb.
* Tuna hated it (see below)
Fourplay is a comedy set in London and starring Mariel Hemingway, Irene Jacob, Mike Binder and Colin Firth. Binder also wrote and directed the film. The original release was called Londinium, and it has been variously known as Fourplay, Four Play, Love Affairs and Love After Sex. Seems like about one title for each viewer who has seen it.
Binder plays a TV scriptwriter who is brought to London to work on a sitcom starring Hemingway’s character. He is introduced to Jacob, who’s playing a make-up girl, but is also working on a book about London (“Londinium”). They become a couple. Hemingway is married to her producer, played by Firth, but the relationship is going stale. Eventually, the couples end up switching partners. That is pretty much it, except for Colin Firth’s method of letting off steam. He gets pissed in a pub with his mates, then takes them outside and kicks the crap out of them.
The message seems to be that marriage will always go stale. If you find that a humorless theme for a comedy, I agree with you. Fourplay is competently filmed with good production values, and does make London look very inviting, but has no other merit. It is a complete failure even at simple storytelling, much less being amusing. Don’t look to the sexy premise and stars for some guilty pleasures, either. For a film that is entirely about sex, marriage and infidelity, than is not much in the way of sex or nudity.
Irene Jacob
Mariel Hemingway
There was no nudity in the season finale of Furious.
It has been renewed for a second season.
An innocent Chicago food delivery boy, after having sex for money, finds himself involved in a series of murders that can be traced back to someone who was in his bed.
This is an ’80s-style exploitation film, right down to the presence of some actual porn actresses from that era. Sixty-three-year-old Ginger Lynn Allen and 67-year-old Nina Hartley join the naked youngsters by doffing their tops.
I can’t tell whether the film is trying to be funny. It certainly makes no attempt at realism, so perhaps the over-the-top elements are supposed to be comedic. More than anything, it reminds me of those early attempts to make porn films with actual plots and characters. If this were a 1970s hardcore movie, you might say, “Hey, that wasn’t bad for a porno. At least they made an effort.” But it isn’t hardcore, and the ’70s are long gone. Judged as an actual movie, it’s terrible — a real ordeal to get through.
Still, there is plenty of soft-core nudity, so I suppose we can be thankful for that and appreciate the film as an oasis in the nudity desert that is 2026. It’s not a very good oasis, but the thirsty don’t insist on Evian.
Jiana Nicole
Jade Perry
Andrea Huber
Ginger Lynn Allen
Nina Hartley