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Sex and Death 101 (2007)

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Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 40
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 30

Sex and Death 101 aspires to be a clever sex comedy, but has little life behind the sex or the death.

23

Average Rating: 3.7/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 10

Sex and Death 101 aspires to be a clever sex comedy, but has little life behind the sex or the death.

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Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 4,023

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Movie Info

Upon receiving an e-mail containing the names of every woman he has ever slept with and every women he will ever sleep with, a man set to be married in just one week eschews his wedding plans in favor of seeking out the truth behind the perplexing message in a black comedy written and directed by Heathers screenwriter Daniel Waters. Roderick Blank (Simon Baker) was prepared for a future of predictable, domesticated bliss -- but fate has a funny way of shaking things up when we least expect it.

R, 1 hr. 56 min.

Comedy

Daniel Waters

Jul 1, 2008

Anchor Bay Entertainment

Cast

All Critics (41) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (30) | DVD (6)

There are a lot of laughs, good performances, and points for creativity.

April 7, 2008 Comment
Ebert & Roeper
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Why not simply admit this is cheeseball porn, assembled with a slightly higher brand of cheese and nuts?

April 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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This film is headed quickly for DVD. In the video store, though, it isn't funny enough to be shelved in the comedy section nor dirty enough to be filed with the smut.

April 4, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Post | Comment
New York Post
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What a sorry reunion for Ryder and writer-director Daniel Waters, who scripted her far better dark comedy Heathers back in 1989.

April 4, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comment
New York Daily News
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Neither particularly dark nor even remotely funny.

April 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal | Comment
Wall Street Journal
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Even if it badly needs editing, runs almost a half-hour too long and chickens out totally in its final scenes, it's still miles above the Hollywood comedy median.

April 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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Heaven help a writer who turns a philanderer into a blank.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
Austin Chronicle

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.

July 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

the monologues near the truly odd ending make you wonder whether Waters had an extreme fever when he was finishing up the script

July 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

As a writer, Waters is best-known for creating Ryder's sharp black comedy, Heathers, and Bruce Willis' self-indulgent bomb, Hudson Hawk. As a director, he tends to waste actors, and he fails to establish a consistent comic tone.

April 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Seattle Times | Comment
Seattle Times

Sex and Death falls into the category of those unfortunate films in that it's a schoolboy's wet dream slathered in smug self-back patting and wish-fantasy run amok, all told with the deftness of a piano falling out of the sky and onto our heads.

April 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Comment
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

A fun, sloppy treatment of a profound premise that, as a reunion project between Waters and Ryder, feels right.

April 10, 2008 Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | Comment

Now we know how the dopes in the beer commercials spend their time when they are not drinking their beer. They laugh their socks off at movies like this.

April 4, 2008 Full Review Source: tonymedley.com | Comment

Waters is trying to have his cake and eat it out too.

April 4, 2008 Full Review Source: UGO | Comment

One of the most pointless films ever made about sex or death.

April 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Metromix.com | Comment
Metromix.com

It's all a pretentious bore that feels twice as long as it's two-hour running time.

April 4, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

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.

April 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | Comment
Los Angeles Daily News

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.

April 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | Comment
Jam! Movies

The comedy grows more and more gratingly cynical and unpleasant.

April 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International
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Audience Reviews for Sex and Death 101

I enjoyed Sex and Death 101 much more then I thought I would, not only because of Simon Baker but because I found the film itself was very enjoyable to watch and had a few good belly laughs to boot (one in particular had me laughing throughout most of the rest of the film). Don't watch Sex and Death 101 If you are

June 13, 2011
Cameron Sherwell

Super Reviewer

weird. not that funny, just sorta of meh. it was a good idea done in that horrible indie film way.

July 8, 2010
theylovealexis

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