A devout Mormon living in L.A. becomes a pornographic actor after his martial arts moves impress a big-time director.
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Simply A Masterpiece
good film but with many flaws
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Is an intentionally bad movie really better than an accidentally bad movie, if the intentionally bad movie is bad at being bad? That's the sort of philosophical question posed by Orgazmo.Coming straight out of the brain of one of the guys who created South Park, Orgazmo is the story of Joe Young (Trey Parker) a young Mormon who desperately needs money to pay for his wedding ceremony in the great temple in Salt Lake City. He gets offered $20,000 dollars to star in a porno movie about a super-hero with an orgasm-ray and a sidekick with a utility belt of sex toys. He takes the job, on the condition that he never actually has to have sex with anyone. So, with the use of a stunt penis, the film is made. Then there's a sequel and something about the Japanese wannabe gangster rapper that owns the local sushi bar being menaced by some thugs, so Joe Young must become the super-hero Orgazmo in real life, complete with a real orgasm-ray. And his sidekick practices "hamster style" kung-fu.While it's filled with profanity and naked man ass by the metric ton, you shouldn't think that Orgazmo is anything like South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut or Team America: World Police. Those films, made by Parker and his partner Matt Stone, are really filthy but really, really funny. Orgazmo is funny at times, as it breaches all barriers and crosses into new levels of stupidity, but it is a bad movie. I t's badly acted, badly written and badly filmed. It barely even resembles a professionally made movie. It's closer to something a bunch of college students wrote one night when they were drunk and tried to shoot the next day when they were hung over.But absolutely every single bit of this movie's suckiness is 100% intentional. Trey Parker deliberately made the film in a crude and substandard fashion as part of the overall joke. But there's really no point to that joke, so you're just left with a stupid, poorly made film. I'm not sure if the problem is that Parker's humor doesn't translate to human beings or if it's that Orgazmo never tries to be more than funny. Both the South Park movie (censorship and personal responsibility) and Team America (American foreign policy yes it was about American foreign policy) had themes of broader social commentary running through them. Orgazmo has none and perhaps that hollowness is what keeps the purposely lame humor from working.Oh, and a word of warning. Orgazmo definitely wins the award for "Movie About The Porn Industry That Contains The Least Female Nudity", so don't rent it thinking you're going to get a cheap thrill. Unless you thrill to the sight of multiple, hairy man asses
Orgazmo is a truly bad movie about a Mormon who goes into pornography to raise enough money to build his own temple. Now perhaps this movie would have worked, if it was a real porno with sex scenes. But unfortunately, it has no sex scenes whatsoever. On top of that, the plot is dull and the acting is terrible.It is the sort of film that gives even bad pornographic films a bad name. So if you are into the sort of thing that the creators of orgazmo are into, I would take a pass on Orgazmo and rent some other porno film, like Forbidden Science or Co-ed Confidential. You are your drinking friends will have a lot of more fun and your evening would not be ruined by this crap.
I have not even seen the entire film, but I have seen enough to know that this is a piece of garbage. I am thoroughly unimpressed by everything I have seen spew from the minds of Trey Parker and Matt Stone. If I had my way, they would not be allowed to make films for everything I have seen from them is pure trash, but this is America and we have freedom of speech; they have the right to spew this filth into our media. I personally am offended by their constant mockery of religion, even though I do disagree with the Mormon faith. And their sick and disturbing fixation on sex and all things distastefully sexual make this film inappropriate for anything but private home viewing. Also, the constant use of profanity, (and I mean constant) shows that the writers have nothing to say and are either putting it in there for filler, or insulting your intelligence by thinking that's all you want to hear. Either way, it benefits nobody and adds nothing to the story. It shows bad writing.This is probably going to be one of the few films that I can review without seeing the whole thing. And that is sad, that I can come up with enough to write ten lines about a film after seeing only ten minutes.See my profile for my rating philosophy.
When people think of Trey Parker & Matt Stone, they usually think of South Park, but this film is just as good in all aspects. after watching this film you will never forget the term 'stunt cock' or the phrase "Now, I don't want to sound like a queer or nothing..." this film may not be a box-office smash, but it as suitable for a Saturday night with some friends as Airplane. It was originally slated to be a musical, much like Parker's first work, Cannibal! The Musical but they felt that it wouldn't come across with audiences as well. There are a lot of good ties with other works but Parker & Stone, such as T-Rex's voice. (Which is so obviously dubbed by Parker)So all in all, this film is an underrated comedy another of their films, BASEketball and for any South Park fans, this is the perfect film for you because it has that recognisable wit and tongue-in-cheek offensiveness.