From Canada comes a fresh and often funny sex comedy. It is what it says it is: high concept applied to low regions. Thus you get sleeping sex, a bright and poppy production, and a jilted accountant flying off to Toronto for pictorial proof that other girls find him attractive. Did I mention that he’s an annoying fool?
My Awkward Sexual Adventure has plenty of high points amidst its lowbrow peregrinations.
More a conventional relationship movie than the title suggests, there’s more talking about sex than sex, though there is actual sex.
The fool’s girlfriend is hotter and hornier than him, creating issues all around. ISSUES!
Lesson 5 employs half a cantaloupe … and a tongue, as shown in the poster. Partly shown anyway.
There’s manscaping involved, perhaps a non-sequiter but you’ve got to know what you’re getting into.
This Canadian funded movie ends with dozens of Canadians thanked for “feedback on the script over the years.” Did they get laid for that? Could be a national service North of the Border. You never know.
Laid or not, their fresh and funny sex comedy delivers as promised. Just be careful what you wish for.
Jonas Chernick holds it together as Jordan Abrams, a Woody Allen nebbish, albeit more explicit. Chernick also wrote the movie, so he’s playing an idealized version of himself, a la the Woodman.
Emily Hampshire is game and sufficiently gamin as a Toronto stripper and latent restauranteur.
Sarah Manninen is cutely bitchy as a JCP who’s hotter and hornier than her betrothed. Trouble!
Vik Sahay is a revelation as the coolest Indian ever. Dude’s slept with most of the hotties at a happening party he throws on a moment’s notice. Lucky too. Melissa Marie Elias plays his smoking hot betrothed.
Supporters
Sean Garrity and writer Jonas Chernick’s au courant film employs a paint-by-numbers plot, but does it well.
Random Observations
An average guy sets about getting over-sexed, from which one might trace the downfall of the Western World in the descent of the RomCom, from Charade to My Awkward Sexual Adventure.
Cary Grant is turning over in his grave right now.
3, 2, 4 edginess pattern yields a deep sordidness, jaded territory as it were.
Au courant here means there’s an electric car appearance and iPhones galore.
Circumstantially, Winnipeg has swinger clubs? Sure.