A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
2011 Directed by Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck
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A comedy about old friends in new positions.
A close group of 30-somethings spend every weekend throwing elaborate theme parties at their friend Eric's (Jason Sudeikis) family home in the Hamptons. When Eric's dad decides to sell off their summer playground, the friends agree there is only one way to have the biggest and brashest send off party, a good old fashioned orgy.
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Another vapid, smarmy, droll, mechanical film about thirty-somethings acting like twenty-somethings. Is there anything less endearing? Talk about a crisis of the imagination. Between this, "Horrible Bosses", and the interminable "Hall Pass", Jason Sudeikis owns half of the real estate for these films. These jokes are so bad the Broken Lizard crew would leave them on the cutting room floor.
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Epic movie title, not so epic movie. Entertaining though.
Tyler Labine picks up the thread where Jack Black left it.
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A crappy old fashioned orgy.
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Did you see Old School? No? How about The 40 Year Old Virgin? Do you watch The League? No? Have you seen any middle-of-the-road-adolescent-adult-male comedy in the last 5-10 years? Really!? Well, just watch this then. It won't take long, it's pretty damn funny and you'll be caught up. You have a penis, right?
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I had a really good review for this one.
It was gonna break down the films structure and explore how it utterly fails at pace, how the characters have no motivations, how it's weirdly sexless. It was gonna touch on genre theory and the fundamentals of the three act structure and I was gonna talk abour she's all that and it was probably gonna end up rivaling my 21 Jump Street review in terms of length.
And then I sat down to write it and all I could think was "Why bother?"
This movie didn't put in any effort, why should I?
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Setting the tone early on, the film opens with our leads throwing a party, lovingly entitled the 'White Trash Bash'. Hmm, seems we are not aiming high then. Still, this never pretends to be anything else. The clue is in the title after all. And for all of the lonely internet perverts hoping to get lucky, this is not exactly what it says on the box.
This immediately uninspiring offering actually has some fire in its belly. Cast liberally with some of today's most coveted comedic talent (and a couple of surprising cameos), Orgy is quite the hoot. It is sharply written and delivered with admirable timing.
Lest we forget though, this is a story about a group of thirtysomething…
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A very light, ineffectual comedy that unfortunately is so light that it left out all the laughs. It's not bad I guess?
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A likable ensemble tackles a comic script that is refreshingly sex-positive. The film also has brief flashes of wisdom about transitioning from slackerhood to adulthood (not perfectly but in a less cursory manner than most mainstream comedies). I'd speculate that Sudekis spent a lot of time watching Vince Vaughn as he approaches his lead position in a similarly low key manner. Comic stand out is David Koechner who makes the most out of two scenes.
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Not a particularly outstanding comedy, but it was less raunchy and had more heart than I was expecting, and it did make me laugh a good number of times. All in all, it was a pleasant viewing experience.
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I should have known from the title or the fact that the TV channel it was on listed its rating as 1 star...I should have known. But the thing is, I like Nick Kroll. And I wanted to find him or Jason Sudeikis funny in this movie, but it didn't happen. This is a real piece of trash.
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I was all greased up and everything.
What a terribly misleading title. Calling something like this 'A Good Old Fashioned Orgy' is like telling people cigarettes will give you super powers.
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Nothing too special, didn't have very many big laughs, but it was kinda a feel good movie and the orgy looming over us (only shown at the end) definitely kept me watching lol, as I'm sure it will you. It was kinda hot, but nothing too racy. I think it would have been a lot better if they weren't afraid to get an NC-17 rating, but they obviously cut out a lot of stuff to make it rated R. Don't go rushing to see it, but it's fun.
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Teema -illoista diggaileva hemmo pitää kavereineen orgiat. Jee.
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A unconventional group comedy that hits the right notes when needed. Sure, it's predictable, had the typical comedy characters, but y'know, it's just really good fun.
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I like all the people in this movie. I don't like this movie.