Review: A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

3 Reviews:

Review by	CinemaBlend
Submitted on	2011-09-02 11:22:26
Rating	4
The upside of A Good Old Fashioned Orgy's long delay on its way to theaters is that many of its stars-- including Lucy Punch, Leslie Bibb and Nick Kroll-- are far more famous now than they were when the movie was filmed in 2008. But delayed movies, comedies especially, have a way of earning that kind of delay, and though there's plenty of talent and a handful of good jokes, it's largely a promising idea in search of writer-directors who know where to take it. Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory, making their screenwriting and directing debuts, consistently bungle everything from the timing of jokes to plot threads that seem insultingly obvious, making a film that's just good enough to set the audience up for laughs that just aren't there.

Review by	Time
Submitted on	2011-09-02 11:20:04
Many critics, including this one, lament the prudish attitude contemporary American movies tend to have toward sex. There's definitely plenty of raunch, but since the end of the '70s and the advent of a leering-through-the-peephole Porky's sensibility, sex itself gets less play than titillation and tittering about it. So a tip of the hat to A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, a frequently very funny movie about planning and executing exactly what the title describes.

Review by	Rotten Tomatoes
Submitted on	2011-09-02 11:18:57
Rating	4
Its titillating title promises ribald laughs, but the lazily written, indifferently acted, and only sporadically funny A Good Old Fashioned Orgy fails to consummate.