Beginner's Guide to Sex (2015)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Simply Perfect

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Laugh-free, bizarrely-toned misfire unsure if it's a wild, raunchy sex comedy or a serious high school drama; unpleasant homophobic and racist stereotyping abound, not to mention an overload of profanity. Cast is mostly required to play things at the 2-dimensional level. This is the sort of thing that makes "Porky's"--or even "Wildcats"--look like "Citizen Kane" in comparison. To think of all the talented scripts out there in the world that lay languishing and never get made while something like this continues to circulate on pay cable is truly a discouraging thought; in case you haven't figured it out yet, this movie is not just bad--it's depressingly bad.

I happened to be on vacation at my cousin's and we had a lull with nothing to do and I just happened across this movie. If there had been anything on other than cupcake wars and other inane cooking shows, I wouldn't have bothered with this movie. I think I missed a few minutes of the beginning. The first thing I couldn't believe was students using lots of cuss words to each other and to the faculty. Second, I can't understand what the big deal is that the sex ed teacher is a virgin or why she feels the need to tell the students. There was a sequence where she was confiding in a student, her boyfriend had a stroke while making out with her, the school somehow felt his unreleased sexual tension was her fault and dropped a bucket of cum on her head. Really? Boys ejaculated into a bucket for a month to accumulate this? They actually showed a bucket of white slime falling on her head. Yuck. Another time she tried to get the top basketball star expelled, he caught her in the restroom and gave her (the teacher) a very graphic description of himself having sex with a girl in class, inch by inch and his 11". I'm no prude but I see nothing particularly amusing about the sex ed teacher's sister having sex with 147 guys or watching Tom Arnold's comedy. He may be an okay actor in other fields, but his performance techniques were exactly like they were in Roseanne. Very abrupt and curt. This movie was just an "excuse" to talk very dirty and was completely unreal and even ridiculous in many spots. "Roberta the squirter" had an intimate talk with the teacher about masturbating and she made a "mess." The sun shone through the window onto the liquid and made a rainbow that started on the edge of the bed and terminated in her vagina. Are you kidding me? Totally absurd. Oh yeah, as another said, it was unexplained why the teacher was acting like a child. This movie made no sense at all.

OK you see the title, you read the synopsis and you know exactly what you're getting into... They aren't lying to you, it really is a movie about a virgin teaching sex ed. It's not that funny, it is quite crass... but to be honest I did had a few "guffaw" type of chuckles so I couldn't go lower than a 4... the story being so typical, the acting a bit too much, the scenes are obnoxiously trying to make you feel uncomfortable... I wish I could give it a 1, but no... some parts, goodness help me I don't know why, were funny. Take it as it is... a really bad teen movie but with some really funny scenes (but not THAT many...)

I loved this comedy. I laughed really hard about eight times. It may have been a bit dumb at times but there were many really funny jokes. People who gave it a low rating must be offended by rather graphic explicit sexual language. But if you are not prudish and easily offended, I think you will agree this was some really humorous writing. The acting was also totally decent and the casting of characters was very good in my mind. The thing about comedies is they are very subjective and if you are into sophisticated ironic envelope pushing humor; you may like this as much as I did. I watch a lot of comedies and can hardly remember one that cracked me up as much as this did and I am fairly jaded. The only thing I can think of to compare the style of humor to might be the TV series "Maron"