Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2004 Filmcritic.com

A minor classic and Woody Allen's most absurd film ever, this series of seven short vignettes is worth a look for its '70s fueled humor and sex-crazed hysterics. Based on (well, not really -- inspired by, let's say) the watershed book, Allen indulges in homages to everyone from Scorsese to Kubrick to Fellini, with stops along the way for his traditional neurotic filmmaking style. The stories are goofs on cross-dressing, beastiality, sex in public, and more. Perhaps the most notorious moment involves an enormous breast rampaging the countryside, and the "What's My Perversion?" sketch (a riff on What's My Line?, starring Jack Barry as himself) is classic. Pricelessly ridiculous.

Bookmark and Share

Rating

4.0 out of 5 Stars

Cast and Crew

  • Director: Woody Allen
  • Producer: Charles H. Joffe
  • Screenwriter: Woody Allen
  • Stars: Woody Allen, John Carradine, Lou Jacobi, Louise Lasser, Anthony Quayle, Tony Randall, Lynn Redgrave, Burt Reynolds, Gene Wilder, Jack Barry
  • MPAA Rating: R