Amy's Orgasm (2001)

the audience applauded

Sick Product of a Sick System

Admirable film.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

There were enough take-offs on both male and female behavior in relationships that neither gender need feel neglected. Witty tongue-in-cheek dialog that becomes funnier with each viewing. Performances by Julie Davis as Amy and Nick Chinlund as Matthew are realistically or perhaps even stereotypically contrasting but in an enjoyable way. The story says something too about our pop psychology, now hopefully more past than present, way of looking at human behavior. Worth a good look for laughs. I thought it was hilarious! Perky, well-shot, well-cut ... for a little film with a very limited budget. Julie Davis certainly shows her versatility as writer, director and star.

My favorite line from the movie is "I need love like water and food." Julie Davis wrote, directed and starred in this movie. Usually, when someone tries this, it becomes a vanity production with poor acting, poor direction and poor writing. That is what makes this film so amazing, it manages to have great acting, great direction and great writing all together. Julie Davis is a female Orson Welles.I do not believe that there is a better romantic comedy around. It has the perfect blend of romance and comedy and even a few very soft-core sexy moments that put it above "Must Love Dogs" and "The Holiday".It is now seven years since the movie was made and Julie Davis has not acted, written or directed anything since. That is truly sad. She deserved to become a superstar after this fabulous film.

Cute, slightly offbeat romantic comedy is funny and I recognize some of the lead's attitudes and actions from girls I've known, so it kind of helps me figure out why they do some of the things they do, and I liked the way they would move from what was happening to what she was hearing and imagining, as when a guy's comments about having stayed with an ex for the good sex translating in her mind to a diatribe about her being fat. Movie has a rather cynical view towards self-help pop psychology books, which I think is justified. The big speech near the end of pretty stupid, the sort of unrealistic thing you see in Hollywood movies all the time. Not successful on all levels, and if I felt like it I could pick apart this or that, but overall it just works and is quite entertaining.

First, ask yourself, 'If all these reviewers hated the movie so much why did they bother to write a review?' Because it sparked them.I just saw it, and I really liked it. I found it witty and entertaining, as a the movie was intended. Was the movie factual on every account like some of these reviewer anally pointed out? No, but it's NOT a documentary, it's a comedy....geez...lighten up.I think Ms Davis did a great job, and at the end when I found out that she wrote and directed as well as acted in it, I was impressed. I think she is a better Director/Writer then Actor, but her acting didn't take away from the film.This movie is a light-hearted comedy about the differences between men and women.....simple as that.