Not an American Pie style comedy. Not a big sex romp. More an indy comedy about relationships. Stars Laura Silverman (sister of Sarah Silverman), Adam Busch (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Ted Beck, Edrick Browne, Aimee-Lynn Chadwick, Yasmine Kittles.The story: Three couples gather at one couple's rural house to have an orgy.
Was it good?
No...but it wasn't as bad as you might think and there was actually some interesting stuff, but it needed to either go more the indy route (which is where the interesting stuff was) or it needed better comedy because this just wasn't funny enough to recommend.
A lot of the story you can probably guess -- some people are all for the orgy, some people are hesitant, which will create conflict, and, of course, the full blown orgy never happens. (This is true of most movies -- the more the title promises sex the less it delivers.) It's one of the biggest problems of the movie is that nothing really special happens that will grab your attention. And while there are some parts that are amusing, nothing was really laugh out loud funny here. What did work was some of the surprising, more indy-feel, choices that were made. One of the best scenes has the characters talking about what parts of their body they don't like. This could have been played just for laughs, but when the married mom starts listing everything, well, it's actually a pretty powerful moment. Another interesting choice is that at the hour mark, when a proper comedy about an orgy should be getting to the down and dirty stuff, they instead have the characters seperate to talk -- one guy to one girl who are not already in a relationship. They focus on one guy and one girl, a girl he has a crush on, and we just watch them talk about their lives, their relationships and finally he tells her that he loves her. It's pure indy stuff -- it goes on way too long to ever be in a HW film -- but another great moment.
Unfortunately, after those two moments we get more wacky attempts at comedy, the whole collapse of the orgy, and lots of stuff that just doesn't go anywhere.
It's a shame...there might have been a very interesting movie here, and there are a couple moments, but not enough to recommend.
*** AVOID ****
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