09/04/2012: A Good Old Fashioned Orgy [2011]

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy is definitely a movie that a lot of people misunderstood going into it, and as such, the reviews were all over the board. This comedy uses the orgy simply as a device with which to create a story about a group of friends and there relationship.






There are a couple of ways people could have interpreted what this movie was about and what that meant. Of course the trailers made the general premise clear, a group of long-time friends who enjoy a good party decide to throw one last party, and to go out with a bang, decide to have a good old fashioned orgy. So how could this possibly be taken wrongly eh? So I will first start off with what this movie isn't.

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy is not a raunchy sex movie à la American Pie or other such movies. It is definitely not a PG teen comedy either. However this does not make it some kind of porno with a story. A Good Old Fashioned Orgy is a strong comedy, with multiple levels that simply uses the orgy to explore the character relationships and create humour.

The story is pretty predictable once you know the movie is about a bunch of friends have an orgy. Of course there is some debate, and then everyone eventually comes around. Then when it actually starts to happen everything is awkward and uncomfortable and it all seem for naught. However AGOFO does give us an orgy in the end as as expected everything works out for the best in the end.


AGOFO ( that's fun to say) does have a lot of good laughs and I think most of them were rather tasteful. They are not the raunchy jokes that you would find in American Pie. Most of the movie comprises of developing the characters and explaining their reasoning for deciding to participate in the orgy and as such the movie greatly depends on the cast.

It's good to see a group of mentally challenged friends having fun.

The cast is in fact a very good one and features some lesser known but very good comedians. The lead role is played by Jason Sudeikis, who is a great comedian, who is really getting more and more popular and it was good to see him as the lead. Leslie Bibb also shows up, and while she appears high up on the credits she isn't really as involved as you might think, regardless she does great. Lake Bell plays her usual self, and Michelle Borth, Nick Kroll, Angela Sarafyan, and Martin Starr are all good comedians I didn't recognize. The other two I recognized were Tyler Labine and Lindsay Sloan who are both very funny. All in all it is the great cast of comedians that really makes AGOFO work.

I won't say much more, as while it's a simple movie, it is more complex than your average sex comedy.The important thing to remember is that A Good Old Fashioned orgy is not the tasteless sex comedy that is American Pie and the like, and it does definitely feature some more mature adult subject matter.

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