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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid (1972)

Comedy  
Rayting:   6.8/10 38.2K votes
Country: USA
Language: English | Italian
Release date: 26 July 1973

Seven stories are trying to answer the question: what is sex? Or maybe they are not trying.

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SavvyDalmia 6 February 2018

I don't know why films like this one aren't made anymore. (Probably because PCness has made it really hard to get away with a lot of jokes.) Equal parts ridiculous and shocking, perhaps a bit too shocking for delicate sensibilities, the film does not have a boring moment. Thoroughly entertaining, extremely noneducational, and highly hilarious.

Lejink 5 April 2019

Fmovies: What do you think would age worst from 1972, maybe glam rock, possibly hot pants and tank-tops or a Woody Allen sex comedy? Well, after watching this excruciatingly unfunny movie, I know where I'm casting my vote.

Of course, sex permeates everything Allen ever wrote, often quite amusingly, but here with full rein on the subject, he turns out a series of badly misfiring extended sketches which in the end serve only to embarrass the actors playing them out.

Not only are the scenes shockingly infantile in both conception and execution, they would struggle to make the Cheshire Cat smile. Perhaps I would exempt from blame only the last of the seven vignettes, a mildly ribald skit on bodily functions, featuring cameos from the likes of Tony Randall and somewhat improbably Burt Reynolds. However the rest are bereft of either wit or humour with occasional moments of look-away badness. These include a crude, school-boyish episode surrounding a mediaeval queen's chastity, a dry-as-a-bone Italian comedy spoof with a sex-mad couple having sex in public places, all spoken in Italian, without subtitles, a weak 50's monster-movie parody where Allen is pursued by a massive mammary, a 50's quiz-show take-off entitled "What's My Perversion" ("Are you a rapist?" is one guess, another, which looks especially bad in the light of future events in Allen's own life is "Are you a child molestor?") and a middle-aged man frolicking about in women's clothes in a chapter entitled "Are transvestites homosexual?". Laugh, I nearly died.

However the worst of them must be the criminal waste of Gene Wilder in a thoroughly offensive sketch which sees him fall in love with a sheep which includes a scene where the sheep is got up in suspenders. Another lowlight scene is one where a young woman is set up for a gang-bang for a bunch of cub-scouts.

I'm going to stop here in case I remember any more from a movie I just want to forget. I usually champion Allen's early comedies over his later serious works but this is as bad as it gets and one which I'd like to think shames its maker now.

bross3 19 June 1999

My girlfriend and I rented this one expecting a lot of fun and hilarity about sex and relationships ala Annie Hall... and ended up with a movie filled largely with unfunny sketches. It wasn't long before we started hoping that the "next one will be funny" and it really never was all that funny. The main reason for renting the film was what I had heard about the final sketch about ejaculation. While I admit that bit was pretty hilarious it certainly wasn't worth sitting through the rest of this to see... if only we'd fast-forwarded through the first hour or so...

kokosnuss74 18 August 2003

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid fmovies. `Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex' is a landmark, and of course a great exercise in comedy. Dividing the movie in 7 different segments (with some not including himself in the leading role) was the best Woody Allen could do, and this movie works better than his previous attempt (Bananas) and his posterior `Sleeper'.

In a way, it's less ambitious and targets all audiences. All short films are hilarious, in a crescent order. My favorite is the last, which satirizes the humanly body functions during intercourse. A must see, for all generations of movie likers. Rate: 5/5

boycebrown-1 2 May 2004

This is a wildly hilarious comedy about sex and nothing less. One of the very under rated skits is Gene Wilder's love affair with a lamb. Of course, the one that can't be missed is the all famous medievil one with the fool. It has some very low points, (let's face it, the giant tit was awful), but overall a ten! Most people think that this movie appeals to guys, but I'm a girl and this is one of my favourite of Woody's films. If you're anxious about talking about sex, or highly religious perhaps this movie will not strike your fancy. However, if you like romance stories, alot of shagging from different points of the world, and above all, Woody himself then this is your movie! ****/****

The_Movie_Cat 8 January 2000

Everything You Always Wanted to Know... is frequently looked down upon as it fulfils its promise completely. That is, it contains a lot of sex.

To downplay the film on such a level is to do it a disservice: what may be overlooked is that, apart from the subject matter and the brevity with which such a topic is treated, this is shot extremely well.

A notable example of this is Allen's technique of having actors speaking with their backs to the camera. A very European style of filming, and one which, understandably, is most brought into play during the third vignette, a pitch-perfect satire of continental cinema. Also look out for the grand-scale surrealism that occupies the last two sequences: a 400-foot breast rolling down a well-shot hillside or a giant tongue may seem crude in context, but looked at solely for cinematic technique this is pure Fellini. This may seem to be overstating it, but never has a bawdy, slightly crass, comedy vehicle been so well conceived for the big screen. Even the opening sequence involving a multitude of white rabbits is shot with the screen in mind, a twitching nose and red eye the only objects punctuating an effective white counterpoint for the introductory credits.

And so to the content itself, which doesn't match the quality of the production and sags in the middle. The first three sketches are quite wonderful, the third, as mentioned, is exquisite, and the scenes with Gene Wilder romancing a sheep may not be as sophisticated, but are probably the funniest. The first sketch sees Woody as a medieval jester paraphrasing Shakespeare, though the gags really don't get any better (or more tasteful) than "T.B. or not T.B., that is the congestion". For this is a film that has no limits, and its content flirts with notions of bestiality, transvestism, the female orgasm, ejaculation and sex in public places. Not all of these are carried off particularly well, the transvestite sketch falling resolutely flat. There is also evidence of Woody's homophobia, casting himself as a sperm dreading being ejected during a "homosexual encounter". In fact, an eighth sketch was filmed, which suggested homosexuality arises as a direct consequence of fear of women. This was cut not on bounds of taste but due to the fact that Woody couldn't think of a good enough punchline.

Worst point of the film though, has to be the "What's My Perversion?" segment. While extremely satirical, this one leaves an extremely bad taste in the mouth as Woody seems to be going full-out to offend with this piece. While the basic idea could cause some amusement, seeing a panellist quizzing a contestant as to whether he's a rapist or a child molester is several stages beyond funny. Simarily, the sketch ends with a Rabbi's wife on her knees eating pork. An unnecessary addition to the film.

However, it is of importance in terms of Woody's screen "character". The rough edges, arrogance and pseudo-intellectualism of his mid-seventies work onwards has yet to emerge, and here we still have Woody very much as he was in "Casino Royale" - ie., a bit of a nerd and on the losing end of life. Amazing to think that in just two years time he was writing himself as a lothario who was exceptionally good in bed.

In conclusion, then, a worthwhile view if you're a student of film or a fan of Woody's, but if you're watching this one for the comedy then it's purely hit-and-miss.

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