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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask

1972
Comedy, Fantasy
1h 28m
Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book by David Reuben... (imdb)

Directed by:

Woody Allen

Screenwriter:

Woody Allen, David Reuben

Starring:

Lynn Redgrave, Woody Allen, Burt Reynolds, Gene Wilder, Tony Randall, Louise Lasser, John Carradine, Anthony Quayle, Lou Jacobi, Geoffrey Holder, Oscar Beregi Jr., Robert Walden

Genres:

Comedy, Fantasy

Country:

USA

Languages:

English, Italian
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask

1972
Comedy, Fantasy
1h 28m
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billyshearsBillyShears
Rated 16 Jul 2017
70
53rd
I wouldve been quite fine with a feature length Gene Wilder fucks a sheep movie or Burt Reynolds Inside Out
Rated 16 Jul 2017
kasperlKasperL
Rated 22 Jan 2017
60
50th
Some parts of this anthology are quite bad, but it's certainly highly memorable. There's a brilliant sketch in which Gene Wilder falls head over heels in love with a sheep. So ehm... there's that.
Rated 22 Jan 2017
suldrupSuldrup
Rated 23 Aug 2010
70
60th
The different segments range from pure genius to mediocrity. I espacially enjoyed "What's My Perversion?" and the part where Woody plays a sperm cell. And of course the best bit of the film, Gene Wilder falling in love with an Armenian sheep. Yes, that last sentence is correct.
Rated 23 Aug 2010
nathandarkoNathanDarko
Rated 14 Mar 2009
68
27th
I love Allen but this one was the worst Movie from Woody.Not compareable to his masterpieces Manhattan & Annie Hall.
Rated 14 Mar 2009
lethiaslethias
Rated 31 May 2018
73
24th
I simply cannot resist Gene Wilder, this man can play - and that eye work! Other parts are creative but not really that much attractive. I did like the last part about internal processes at sex, hah!
Rated 31 May 2018
trixrabbiTrixRabbi
Rated 31 Oct 2014
72
36th
A bit dated, especially the transvestite skit. The highlights are definitely the Gene Wilder sketch, the mad doctor sketch, and Regis Philbin asking "are you a child molester?" with a completely straight face. Like other middle-tier Allen it has a good number of laughs, but a lot of jokes fall flat as well.
Rated 31 Oct 2014
rufamRufam
Rated 15 Dec 2010
65
42nd
This early entry in Woody Allen's filmography is sporadically brilliant, consistently amusing, often stupid, rarely funny and never boring. It's a very minor achievement for Allen -some of the shorts are terrific of course (the final one is by far the best and one of the wittiest moments in Woody's career), but others just fall flat (the Italian couple? the transvestite?). Overall, it's a fun ride although merely a tease for the great Allen films that would follow in the coming years.
Rated 15 Dec 2010
petrostserPetrosTser
Rated 13 Dec 2010
50
23rd
This film could have been enormous fun. But, apart from the last segment and some sporadic good ideas (such as the giant breast that escaped the mad scientist's laboratory), it never really works.
Rated 13 Dec 2010
wetwillieswetwillies
Rated 13 Jul 2010
77
29th
Woody Allen gets ejaculated. A giant tit takes over a city. John Carradine is a mad sexual scientist. Gene Wilder falls in love with a sheep. Those are the kind of crazy things that are found in Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex, which is made of 7 different stories. Some of them fall flat, but when they work, the result is gold. "I don't know if you've read my book, 'Advanced Sexual Positions: How to Achieve Them Without Laughing.'"
Rated 13 Jul 2010
stainStain
Rated 02 Apr 2007
100
95th
Absolutely hilarious movie about a great truth: "Sex Is Funny"
Rated 02 Apr 2007
doyler29doyler29
Rated 02 Jan 2024
70
42nd
So ... I liked this less than "Bananas", which I really don't like, until John Carradine saved the day: "Here I'm going to take the brain of a lesbian and put it into the body of a man who works for the telephone company." "But why? What good will this do anybody?" "It'll show those fools who called me mad!"
Rated 02 Jan 2024
ytadelYtadel
Rated 16 Nov 2022
3
28th
Sketch compilation movies are mid. Always have been, always will be. Tbh the funniest thing here for me was probably the spot on spoofing / impersonation of Italian cinema camerawork in the female orgasm segment - and even then it was more “heh, that’s clever” funny than laugh out loud funny.
Rated 16 Nov 2022
matthagenmatthagen
Rated 14 Mar 2020
47
34th
There are laughs to be had, and a couple of them may have been the biggest Allen has ever got out of me, but the whole experience is hit and miss. The neurotic style works ok here.
Rated 14 Mar 2020
nevejasnevejas
Rated 14 Jun 2018
60
38th
All through the movie I kept wondering if this was funnier and maybe somewhat uncomfortable in the seventies. Instead of the fun, it now had the strongest meh effect I felt in quite some time. Some 40-odd years of world wide sexualisation did not help this picture to age or did it belong to a bog standard collection from the get-go? In between thinking such jolly thoughts and yawning I could have stopped paying attention to all the frolicking but even this did not make the movie end quicker.
Rated 14 Jun 2018
neonmanNeonman
Rated 11 Nov 2017
69
35th
Obviously a mixed bag, especially as each segment doesn't even feel like it was directed by the same person. Although the first one is decent, the next few segments get tiresome quickly as they only rely on the one situational gag (which can be seen as quite outdated). The last few segments have more jokes going for them, especially 'Sexual Research', whose science experiment jokes are the film's highlight. The 'Ejaculation' one that ends this film is, although not hilarious, nicely amusing.
Rated 11 Nov 2017
chmulcr0nchmul_cr0n
Rated 20 May 2017
51
17th
Is this made for ten-year-olds? I mean, I actually had to laugh about 5 times or so, but otherwise this is pretty unfunny and cheap. Except for the cinematography.
Rated 20 May 2017
gnalkhereGnalkhere
Rated 25 Oct 2015
75
60th
The questions asked were nuts, and as tame as the answers were depicted, it was strange nonetheless
Rated 25 Oct 2015
ocelotOcelot
Rated 21 Oct 2014
70
73rd
Woody went five for seven on this one, and it's rated in kind. The Italian couple skit sucked (take your limp-wristed parody shit outta here, pal), as did the transvestite one. On the other hand, the game show and the sperm troops were great. Remember when Woody made movies like these instead of rich white couples in New York?
Rated 21 Oct 2014
nathan_sNathan S
Rated 12 Oct 2014
3
45th
The vignette-structure risks inconsistency, and indeed some sketches are funnier than others. But in general, this is an absurd and entertaining film, going out on a high note with a hilarious finale.
Rated 12 Oct 2014
moraesfelipemoraesfelipe
Rated 06 Jun 2014
67
67th
Nice collection of sex stories that depicts its auteur's troubled and ironic relationship with religion and pleasure. If the first five segments try too much -- despite Gene Wilder and his sheep lover --, the last two work perfectly -- one is a horror story in which a giant tit pursues Woody, as he fights it with a crucifix, and the other works as an industrial, space-age Osmosis Jones with actors posing as cells, sperms (Woody is the best) and even Christian guilt conscience.
Rated 06 Jun 2014
sirstuckeySirStuckey
Rated 06 Mar 2014
60
36th
A few funny moments but a lot of it didn't work for me.
Rated 06 Mar 2014
glm01glm01
Rated 22 Oct 2013
78
58th
78.000
Rated 22 Oct 2013
lodolfolodolfo
Rated 07 Sep 2013
80
42nd
Funny, except for the fool's story.
Rated 07 Sep 2013
susie_mauvesusie-mauve
Rated 13 Feb 2013
67
19th
A good example of why sometimes sketchy means "by the dozen". Still, some bits of the bundle are really, really juicy. Especially that last one.
Rated 13 Feb 2013
prowlerprowler
Rated 13 Feb 2013
37
31st
While it does have a lot of irreverent charm and some good ideas, it really makes you appreciate stuff like the Monty Python films where they actually get it right.
Rated 13 Feb 2013
beautyblissBeautyBliss
Rated 30 Jan 2013
75
42nd
A very strange, interesting film. Innovative, but not great.
Rated 30 Jan 2013
graveyardtangraveyardtan
Rated 07 Oct 2012
85
71st
Hit or miss (as is all sketch comedy), but what hits, hits hard, and the giant tit/Blob segment is one of the funnier things I've seen in a long time.
Rated 07 Oct 2012
deadmarshDeadmarsh
Rated 12 Jul 2012
40
5th
Some points for the final scene, rest was just bad.
Rated 12 Jul 2012
obtiosovobtiosov
Rated 15 Apr 2012
55
16th
I feel sick because of all Woody Allen movies I've seen in an arguably short amount of time. This one had its moments, though. "What if he is masturbating?"
Rated 15 Apr 2012
luna6ixLuna6ix
Rated 07 Mar 2012
80
74th
A fairly entertaining hodgepodge selection from Allen, none of the parts are bad, but none of them are as fleshed out as i would have liked. That last bit was utterly uproarious and I would have much rather had an entire feature made out of it.
Rated 07 Mar 2012
nandorizzinandorizzi
Rated 30 Jun 2011
70
61st
Hit and miss. It has some brilliant and some others not so nice, with a very exaggerated humour, but then the final result is just good.
Rated 30 Jun 2011
velikiVeLiKi
Rated 28 Mar 2011
40
18th
An overall failure at humour, with the honest exception with the last part.
Rated 28 Mar 2011
vahidartvahidart
Rated 13 Jan 2011
100
94th
excellent!5*
Rated 13 Jan 2011
sofielykkesofielykke
Rated 25 Dec 2010
85
73rd
Allen's depiction of the pleasure center is one of the funniest things I've ever seen...unfortunately, the film is very inconsistent: sky high highs (in the part of the film where Allen plays a sperm cell) but also very low lows.
Rated 25 Dec 2010
johnnydarkjohnnydark
Rated 17 Dec 2010
79
33rd
Back when Woody Allen was doing straight up comedy.
Rated 17 Dec 2010
henrikHenrik
Rated 09 Dec 2010
70
57th
Very uneven sketch-film, but the "What happens during ejaculation?"-part is a stroke of comedic genius.
Rated 09 Dec 2010
tjekhovTjekhov
Rated 23 Nov 2010
60
54th
the best comedian of all-time? Woody Allens 70's films is all our worst attributes as human-beings, dissected and then put to pieces again, without returning them in their right places - and that is what makes them hysterical and hysterically funny.
Rated 23 Nov 2010
tangooooooTangoooooo
Rated 19 Sep 2010
70
36th
I liked it, quite funny.
Rated 19 Sep 2010
burkayadaligburkayadalig
Rated 09 Aug 2010
100
98th
one of the funniest movies ever...
Rated 09 Aug 2010
treyatwoodTreyAtwood
Rated 09 Jul 2010
39
6th
sem graça
Rated 09 Jul 2010
derekstarDerekstar
Rated 12 Apr 2010
30
12th
This shit is not very funny. I laughed once, and that was at a sheep wearing lingerie. Derek does not recommend this film! It's pretty much a waste of time. My PSI was way off on this one.
Rated 12 Apr 2010
jeffvjeff_v
Rated 28 Feb 2010
60
22nd
This sketch comedy from Woody Allen doesn't hold up as well as Monty Python. Compare this movie to The Meaning of Life. Which is funnier? More transgressive? Which puts sperm to better comedic use? The Gene Wilder-sheep sketch is definitely the best. It has a "How far will he take this thing?" quality to it that the other sketches, which are dead on arrival, don't have. (The other really funny bit is the hair gel commercial.)
Rated 28 Feb 2010
zeytounzeytoun
Rated 07 Jan 2010
75
79th
Hilarious genre-parodying vignettes.
Rated 07 Jan 2010
billkerwinbillkerwin
Rated 21 Dec 2009
83
56th
Uneven, but very funny in parts.
Rated 21 Dec 2009
frederFreder
Rated 21 Sep 2009
70
54th
I call this Woody's entry into the Cinema of Squirm. Many laugh-out-loud moments, but much like some horror movies, the laughs come out of a sense of discomfort. Much of the cast is better than the material, i.e. Lou Jacoby prancing about in drag -- HAW! The message that comes through is -- what an awful lot of WORK sex is! And, man o man, is Woody right about that!
Rated 21 Sep 2009
okkervilOkkervil
Rated 01 Aug 2009
67
61st
Succeeds more than it fails.
Rated 01 Aug 2009
puyaPuya
Rated 11 May 2009
88
88th
lets misbehave!
Rated 11 May 2009
jacoiiiJacoIII
Rated 26 Apr 2009
35
32nd
There are a few hilarious segments and a few that just fall flat. In my opinion, the film is actually worth watching just for the final sequence.
Rated 26 Apr 2009
chemical404chemical404
Rated 24 Apr 2009
55
47th
Mixed bag. Some part are fun, some are boring. I kept thinking that I'm watching Mel Brooks film, and that's not a good thing. A charm and wisdom that Woody Allen demonstrated in later films aren't present. Even given a bit controversial topics films feels old.
Rated 24 Apr 2009
seryxaSeryxa
Rated 10 Apr 2009
25
43rd
Disheveled revue with a reasonable number of laughs
Rated 10 Apr 2009
marc01marc01
Rated 13 Feb 2009
72
44th
Some parts are excellent. Other, not so much. Definitely worth watching.
Rated 13 Feb 2009
joojooJooJoo
Rated 15 Jan 2009
4
56th
Gives me flashbacks of The Meaning of Life with its inconsistent, disorganized sketch format (but to an even more chaotic degree). After the first two segments I thought the general consensus here was completely off, the next two came off lame, the two others after gave a mixed reaction [the 'What's My Perversion' being the exception - hilarious], & the final segment being a brand of comedy you don't see from Woody Allen anymore. On par with his early works, all-in-all
Rated 15 Jan 2009
voodoomailvoodoomail
Rated 29 Dec 2008
55
26th
Not too good for Allen.
Rated 29 Dec 2008
shmendrekShmendrek
Rated 18 Oct 2008
3
61st
Hit or miss. The final scene with Woody Allen as a sperm is easily the best part. Other sections have not aged very well and drag on interminably.
Rated 18 Oct 2008
teeceeteecee
Rated 19 Sep 2008
66
93rd
Nogle af kapitlerne er skønne
Rated 19 Sep 2008
jwestjwest
Rated 20 Aug 2008
65
40th
Entertaining in spots, but very dated.
Rated 20 Aug 2008
caocaocaocao
Rated 04 Aug 2008
70
55th
It's fragmented and definitely a hit and miss experiment but some of the highlights make it well worthwhile the watch.
Rated 04 Aug 2008
uksubsUKSubs
Rated 13 Jul 2008
68
65th
A fine series of comedies strung together around a thin premise, but since the premise is sex and you get to see Tony Randall and Burt Reynolds work the same scene, this can be forgiven.
Rated 13 Jul 2008
mlightle3mlightle3
Rated 27 Mar 2008
85
70th
Hit and miss. Gene Wilder falling in love with a sheep? Hit. Medieval-set tale about aphrodisiacs? Miss. Female orgasm story, completely in Italian? Hit.
Rated 27 Mar 2008
bojanpopicbojanpopic
Rated 24 Feb 2008
84
71st
You can fight it, but you must watch this movie till the end.
Rated 24 Feb 2008
shephardShephard
Rated 26 Oct 2007
33
12th
Mildly entertaining and very dated.
Rated 26 Oct 2007
heandhishairheandhishair
Rated 14 Aug 2007
44
23rd
Some segments are good. Other segments are not. These equate to a so-so movie.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
thedenizenTheDenizen
Rated 14 Aug 2007
65
51st
It has a giant boob. Pretty much the only watchable Woody Allen film I've seen.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
peaceanarchyPeaceAnarchy
Rated 07 May 2007
75
44th
A good well executed premise with a lot of funny moments. Even so, it does feel a bit dated and not as outrageous as I'm sure it once was.
Rated 07 May 2007
thedicemanTheDiceman
Rated 11 Feb 2007
60
62nd
Has its moments.
Rated 11 Feb 2007

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