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10/18/08
Sex and Death 101 (2008)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:10
Rotten:29
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Sex and Death 101 aspires to be a clever sex comedy, but has little life behind the sex or the death.
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: This amusing sex farce updates age-old concepts about love, sex, and hot lesbians. A new supercomputer (with vague ties to the afterlife) spits out random e-mails that tell when people will die, or... [More]
Starring: Winona Ryder, Simon Baker, Leslie Bibb, Mindy Cohn
Director: Daniel Waters
Reviews for Sex and Death 101
It’s got the makings of a wicked little sex romp, but this dull, wordy comedy lacks visual punch and the laser-sharp satire that made the Waters-penned Heathers a mini-classic.
04/04/08
There are a few sketchy laughs along the way but they never threaten the piece with such post-teen concerns as wit.
04/01/08
Unapologetically sexy, oddly unpredictable and ultimately kinda (yes) sweet, Sex and Death 101 is just a solid little comedy.
10/12/07
Admittedly, it doesn't have many belly laughs, but if you're tuned into Waters' peculiar, highly intelligent comedy style it's a fascinating watch.
07/17/08
From the strange and implausible premise to the low-brow humor that dips into the Farrelly Brothers well at its lowest, this silly misguided comedy serves even less purpose than it does strong laughs.
04/01/08
There are a lot of laughs, good performances, and points for creativity.
04/07/08
The comedy grows more and more gratingly cynical and unpleasant.
04/04/08
the monologues near the truly odd ending make you wonder whether Waters had an extreme fever when he was finishing up the script
07/06/08
A fun, sloppy treatment of a profound premise that, as a reunion project between Waters and Ryder, feels right.
04/10/08
It has some seriously subversive ambitions, wanting to take that most popular of genres, the funny romantic romp, and turn it into a black comedy, stripping away the sweetness while keeping the laughs. Nice idea, bad execution, worse result.
04/04/08
The 'Sex' in the title may entice the unwary, but what they will experience will come closer to the title's other noun.
04/04/08
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10/01/08
Unlike most genre blenders of this sort, there is nothing sophomoric about Sex & Death 101.
03/28/08
Despite two necrophilia gags, Sex and Death 101 feels like its feigning its misogyny, cynicism, and philosophical depth (though "karma sutra" is a great pun).
04/03/08
The film works hard to be a dark, grown up, romantic comedy (plenty of sex, nudity, bad language and philosophy) and yet it winds up being every bit as childish as most other pictures in the genre.
04/04/08
The movie aims to be an unbridled sex farce, but the sex is never all that hot and the jokes are rarely all that funny.
04/04/08
One of the most pointless films ever made about sex or death.
04/04/08
What a sorry reunion for Ryder and writer-director Daniel Waters, who scripted her far better dark comedy Heathers back in 1989.
04/04/08
The film has its moments of wit and lucidity, but these are few and far between.
04/02/08
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