Orgazmo (1998)

Simply A Masterpiece

Good concept, poorly executed.

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

This movie stars Trey Parker and was co-written by him. So, I expected it to be crude and offensive (and it was). However, I also expected it to be really funny, as Parker's other projects ("South Park", "Cannibal the Musical", "BASEketball" and "Team America: World Police") are brilliant and hilarious. Sadly, the film mostly just succeeds in being very offensive--but not at all funny. It's a film filled with potentially funny situations but few punchlines or laughs.Parker stars as a Mormon missionary in Hollywood. He stumbles into the porno industry and soon becomes a sensation in adult films--though it never really made much sense why a committed Mormon would do this or why he was successful. Regardless, once in the industry, he only plans on being there a short time--but the evil man in charge isn't about to let him leave and resume his life in Utah. So, using an orgasm ray that his porn star friend, Ben, made, they wage a two-man war against evil. In many ways, the plot is reminiscent of Parker's play, "The Book of Mormon", that has taken Broadway by storm--though "Orgazmo" is light-years different when it comes to laughs.The film is filled with ample adult toys and sexual situations, though not nearly as much nudity as you might expect--though it is still no exactly 'family-friendly'. But where is the humor? You might laugh a bit at the crude situations and toys but soon they become a bit tiring and the film never really seems brilliant or inspired...just rather dumb. My advice is stick with Parker's other projects. Even for a raunchy comedy, this one is pretty bad.By the way, Parker's "South Park" partner, Matt Stone, has a small role as a mullet-wearing idiot. Unfortunately, he's mostly wasted and his character comes off as very broad and annoying. I guess you can't win 'em all.

Is an intentionally bad movie really better than an accidentally bad movie, if the intentionally bad movie is bad at being bad? That's the sort of philosophical question posed by Orgazmo.Coming straight out of the brain of one of the guys who created South Park, Orgazmo is the story of Joe Young (Trey Parker) a young Mormon who desperately needs money to pay for his wedding ceremony in the great temple in Salt Lake City. He gets offered $20,000 dollars to star in a porno movie about a super-hero with an orgasm-ray and a sidekick with a utility belt of sex toys. He takes the job, on the condition that he never actually has to have sex with anyone. So, with the use of a stunt penis, the film is made. Then there's a sequel and something about the Japanese wannabe gangster rapper that owns the local sushi bar being menaced by some thugs, so Joe Young must become the super-hero Orgazmo in real life, complete with a real orgasm-ray. And his sidekick practices "hamster style" kung-fu.While it's filled with profanity and naked man ass by the metric ton, you shouldn't think that Orgazmo is anything like South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut or Team America: World Police. Those films, made by Parker and his partner Matt Stone, are really filthy but really, really funny. Orgazmo is funny at times, as it breaches all barriers and crosses into new levels of stupidity, but it is a bad movie. I t's badly acted, badly written and badly filmed. It barely even resembles a professionally made movie. It's closer to something a bunch of college students wrote one night when they were drunk and tried to shoot the next day when they were hung over.But absolutely every single bit of this movie's suckiness is 100% intentional. Trey Parker deliberately made the film in a crude and substandard fashion as part of the overall joke. But there's really no point to that joke, so you're just left with a stupid, poorly made film. I'm not sure if the problem is that Parker's humor doesn't translate to human beings or if it's that Orgazmo never tries to be more than funny. Both the South Park movie (censorship and personal responsibility) and Team America (American foreign policy…yes it was about American foreign policy) had themes of broader social commentary running through them. Orgazmo has none and perhaps that hollowness is what keeps the purposely lame humor from working.Oh, and a word of warning. Orgazmo definitely wins the award for "Movie About The Porn Industry That Contains The Least Female Nudity", so don't rent it thinking you're going to get a cheap thrill. Unless you thrill to the sight of multiple, hairy man asses

For all the love I have for South Park, I must say this movie is horrible without even the redeeming factor of being horribly horrible. It just sucks! And no pun intended.Juvenile, concocted (again no pun intended), poorly written, amateuristic direction and very predictable.From the get go I felt no empathy whatsoever with our mormon idiot. Halfway through I was wondering why I was still watching this. And by the end I was wishing for my life back.Even now I waste time writing this review, hoping to save some of you from this colossal waste of time.

Orgazmo is one of those movies that have a stupid and unrealistic storyline, yet are just so funny you cannot hate them.The movie is from Trey Parker and Matt Stone(creators of South Park).The movie stars Trey Parker and Dian Bachar(Cannibal The Musical & BASEketball).Trey Parker is a young Mormon named Joe who is about to get married to his fiancé.One day, after a porn director sends guards out to beat up on him when he goes door to door preaching, Joe beats both of them up.The director sees his great martial-arts skills and pays him $20,000 to act in his porno film called "Orgazmo" about a super-hero who fights crime and has sex with various women.Joe befriends his on-screen sidekick Chowda Boy and the two go eat sushi together.Chowda boy is also an inventor and invents a real life version of Orgazmo's orgasm ray.The movie gives an interesting look at the porn industry and shows how Orgazmo becomes the most popular porn film of all time.Joe tries to hide this from his fiancé, but she eventually finds out and wants him to quit.The director will not let him and kidnaps his fiancé.So now Joe and Chowda Boy must save her.They also help a Chinese-wankster keep his sushi bar.Orgazmo is stupid and unrealistic but is also funny and entertaining.It's no South Park or BASEketball but I liked it more than Team America and Cannibal The Musical.If you are a fan of South Park, or other stupid comedies, check out Orgazmo.The film is Rated NC-17 but should be R-rated.