The Worst Film Ever

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

"The Opposite of Sex" tells a metalinguistic story in which a half-sister comes to a man's life and turns everything upside down. That happens because the girl is completely insane, with all the bad adjectives you can imagine, so she does lots of mean stuff that make you frizz your hair. The story is, for what it matters, a little confusing and implausible, since sexuality is dealt with a little incongruence-- for some point, I believed the movie was trying to show there would be an ex-gay person. What I liked about it is that the movie doesn't have a main character; they're all important to the story-telling and each one with its own singularity. Jason and Lucia are two great characters portrayed by two great actors, and sometimes Lucia appears to be the most reasonable one, given that all the others are dumb most of the time. I just don't give it a better rating because the story is too crazy for my taste, but it entertains for some while, with an original subject, for sure.

I saw this movie because a friend of mine said that it was pretty good. I generally listen to suggestions from people, unless of course it is one particular person and I don't really want to see the movie, as this person has an uncanny ability to become incredibly annoying when trying to convince somebody to do something they really do not want to do. But he's a good bloke anyway.This movie is about a woman who runs away from home after her step-dad dies. She goes and stays with her half-brother, seduces his boyfriend and then leaves for Los Angeles. This begins numerous problems as he is blackmailed by a rather suspicious kid who claims to be this guy's boyfriend as well. It might also be noted to state that the half-brother's former boyfriend, Tom, has died of aids and left him with a lot of money. Tom's sister also hangs around him, and is infatuated with him, but the guy never really takes on. He is gay and he doesn't change, no matter how much we want him to.This movie explores sex, what it is, why people do it, and whether it is bad. The end of the movie sums it all up when she says, I don't want sex, it brings to many bad things such as babies, relationships, commitments and lots of other annoying things. Images of relationships then flash before you, both hetro and homo sexual, and one comes to see the beauty in relationships. It is then that she sits down and says, I guess there are some good things about it.That is the conclusion of this movie - sex is about relationships, though relationships are not always about sex. As is pointed out to the homosexual, he doesn't want his boyfriend for some intellectual type relationship, he wants him for sex, pure and simple. This is something that he does not want to admit, he would rather see it is a side thing for something deeper, but he is kidding himself. What we see is that he doesn't want the intellectual type of thing, he wants sex and he wants it with a man.The girl is different though. She wants the sex without all of the problems, but realises that these problems are not everything. It is the relationships that count. She looks at the relationships and realises that it is a beautiful thing that we have, and sex is just an added bonus.The question of procreation is raised in conjunction with relationships in another clever quote. 'It is interesting how whoever created us made sex so good, and as a means of procreation, because we want sex we will procreate. If it was something like talking on the telephone then nobody would want it and we would die out in a few short years.' I guess this really attacks the heart of humanity - we want sex but we don't want the burdens that come with it: burdens such as babies, relationships, commitments, and even reputation. Just as the gay guy argued that he wanted the intellectual side of the relationship to protect his reputation, it was only a dream. It was only when the woman confronted him with it that he came to accept that it was the sex he was after.I feel that this is a very intelligent film with deep character development and a running commentary on what is going on. My only criticism is when the two guys kiss and the narrator says, now girls, if your boyfriend groaned at what just happened then he is definitely a closet. She then proceeded to run off a number of redneck attributes, indicating that if you are anti-homosexual the you must be gay. This is only supported by the fact that some of the most powerful men in America were very anti-homosexual and also closet homosexuals. Just because you don't agree with it does not mean you are a closet homosexual.

I am only about half way though this movie, I don't think I'll last the rest. I have a weakness for those movies like St Elmo's Fire, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink and About Last Night. I have only scanned the first page of reviews but has anyone else noticed this is a complete rip off of About Last Night except the leading man is NO Rob Lowe. It's pretty bad really. Courtney Cox is pretty woeful too but I guess no worse than Cougar Town. She is in her Bruce Springsteen/Family Ties kind of look. I'm assuming they get married in the end and the two friends get together too. This is not a spoiler as I haven't seen the end yet and perhaps won't. Yawn..

This is a great comedy which at first seems very non-PC with Ricci's character making various comments about gay people, or 'mos as she calls them, but in reality it is the opposite; the most decent and sensible character is her gay half-brother played by Martin Donovan. All the acting was of a high standard, Lisa Kudrow shows that she is not just a television actress and Christina Ricci is great as Dedee.Dedee Truitt is a sixteen year old who leaves her home in Louisiana and turns up at the door of the Bill, gay half brother in Indiana who she has only met once before many years ago. She hasn't been there long when she seduces his boy friend Matt and claims to be pregnant by him. Soon after the two of them leave taking some of Bill's money with them.The attention of the film now switches to Bill, although Dedee continues to narrate. Bill's problems mount after Matt and Dedee leave when somebody claiming to be Matt's other boyfriend tries to blackmail Bill into saying where he is by telling the police that Bill molested him when he was a student at the school Bill teaches at. When Matt phones trying to get more money Bill and Lucia (Bill's dead former boyfriend's sister, played by Lisa Kudrow) set off to LA to confront Matt and Dedee... things don't get any simpler after they meet up, I would say more but don't want to spoiler the whole film.The relationships between the characters is fairly convoluted but not confusing and most are likable, even Dedee who in real life would probably be be a nightmare to know is shown in a reasonable light. If you want a grown up comedy about sexual relationships that doesn't descend into smuttiness or need to actually show the sex then this is the film for you... well worth watching.