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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 12686
Released: July 5, 2000 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Woody Allen pushes the frontiers of comedy by consolidating his madcap sensibility and wickedly funny irreverence with his developing penchant for visually arresting humor. Giving complete indulgenceto the zany eccentricity of his medium, Allen reveals himself as a filmmaker of "wit, sophistication, and comic insight" (Cue). Allen rises to the occasion with several hysterical vignettes that probe sexuality's stickiest issues! Aphrodisiacs prove effective for a court jester (Allen) who finds the key to the Queen's (Lynn Redgrave) heartbut learns that the key to her chastitybelt might be more useful. Unnatural acts get wild and wooly when a good doctor (Gene Wilder) fallsfor a fickle sheep. Jack Barry gives fetishism 20 questions on a wacky TV show called "What's My Perversion?" Sex-research goes under the microscope when a mad scientist (John Carradine) unleashes a monstrous, marauding breast. And the absurdity comes to a frenzied climax with Tony Randall, Burt Reynolds and Allen as sperm having second thoughts about ejaculation!
Description of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask:
A collection of vignettes, loosely based on the book by Dr. David Rueben, written and directed by Woody Allen, Everything contains some very funny moments. It's easy to forget that the cerebral Allen excelled at the type of broad, Catskill, dirty jokes and visual gags that run amok here. It's also remarkable how dirty this 1972 movie really was--bestiality, exposure, perversion, and S&M get their moments to shine. The Woody Allen here, who appears in many of the sketches, is a portent of the seedy old Allen of Deconstructing Harry. Although the final bit, which takes place inside a man's body during a very hot date, is hilarious, most of Everything feels like the screen adaptation of a '70s bathroom joke book. Still, a must for Allen fans. --Keith Simanton
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask Reviews:
Good condition 
2009-06-30 - DVD arrived quickly, factory sealed and in good condition. It was fun to watch again!
Some very funny stuff here! 
2009-04-08 - The price of the movie is worth it just for the Gene Wilder scene! And What's My Perversion, too! It's perhaps a little uneven, but it has some very funny stuff in it. Good early Allen, with great performances.
Humor -unlatched again
2009-03-14 - I will move with dispatch to unlatch the catch to this humorous rematch...
This movie was a howl when it first came out as a parody on the book of the same name.
'not the same impact now, but still funny -especially the last chapter.
This is a very funny parody of pop sex-psychology literature... 
2009-01-18 - The film is entirely about sexual perversions, even though it is not technically erotic... Allen has taken some of the most popular clinical treatments of sexual fetishes and has placed them into very unusual situations...
Gene Wilder, for example, falls in love with a sheep; Woody Allen plays a medieval court jester who gets his lance stuck in his lady's chastity belt while the king is off fighting in the Crusades; a giant breast is released upon the countryside; an Italian couple can only find happiness in public sex; and we are taken into the inner labors of a male human body as it tries to seduce a woman in a car...
Each individual scene is quite well done... The tales are rapid filled with irony about the overly exaggerated importance of sex in our culture...
Typical dry and senseless Woody allen humor! 
2008-05-08 - This is a film that will leave a lasting impression on the viewer, but not because of it's clever writing, content and filming. It will be because of some of the most low based and stupid humor on film. There are some funny moments, but they are so few that you wonder why you even spent time watching it. This film does not show the best of Woody Allen, in fact, almost just the opposite.
