EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX * BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK (1972) - ♦♦♦♦

Directed by - Woody Allen

Written by - Woody Allen (based on the book by David Reuben)

Starring - Woody Allen, John Carradine, Lou Jacobi, Gene Wilder, Louise Lasser, Lynn Redgrave, Burt Reynolds

"WOODY ALLEN at the peak of his early cinematic days was dishing out comedies where intelligence often crossed the line with stupidity. Of course, his concerns with sex and all things sexual would be a prevailing theme throughout his whole filmography, but were never dealt with as blatantly as they were in his film EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX * BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK. 

The film is episodic, some better and more clever than others. Perhaps the most memorable is that in which Allen shows the machinations of workers inside the human body of a male as they labour to make it function during sexual intercourse. It also has the rare feat of being the most credible representation of the absurd infatuation between a doctor and a sheep, in one of the episodes starring GENE WILDER in the leading role. 

Colourful and only occasionally too silly to handle, this everything you've always wanted to know about sex is probably the film that ost directly draws inspiration from ALLEN's comedic short story and essay writer, as anyone who has ever read his books from the fifties and sixties will testify."

Comedy, USA