Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972)
One of Woody Allen's most uneven and least successful films -- a thin, one-note series of sex-related sketches that tries for the feel of Woody's comic essays but comes off like an average night on "Saturday Night Live". The nadir is the embarrassing transvestite sketch, which contains zero (0) jokes; it does get better from there, thankfully, culminating in A) a goofy parody of '50's monster movies, complete with John Carradine as the mad scientist, and B) a riotous depiction of the goings-on inside the male body during sex which almost redeems the entire picture right there. That it doesn't is a testament to how lame much of the rest of it is.
Grade: C+
One of Woody Allen's most uneven and least successful films -- a thin, one-note series of sex-related sketches that tries for the feel of Woody's comic essays but comes off like an average night on "Saturday Night Live". The nadir is the embarrassing transvestite sketch, which contains zero (0) jokes; it does get better from there, thankfully, culminating in A) a goofy parody of '50's monster movies, complete with John Carradine as the mad scientist, and B) a riotous depiction of the goings-on inside the male body during sex which almost redeems the entire picture right there. That it doesn't is a testament to how lame much of the rest of it is.
Grade: C+
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