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Created Sep 13, 2013 12:13AM PST • Edited Nov 20, 2016 08:27PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Good 3.0

   From Canada comes a fresh and often funny sex comedy. It is what it says it is: high concept applied to low regions. Thus you get sleeping sex, a bright and poppy production, and a jilted accountant flying off to Toronto for pictorial proof that other girls find him attractive. Did I mention that he’s an annoying fool?

   My Awkward Sexual Adventure has plenty of high points amidst its lowbrow peregrinations.

   • LOL when the fool talks to a pretty girl at the party.
   • The Man Whore is the smoothest guy ever. Vik Sahay take a bow. You’re the real Desi Sinatra.
   • It finishes with a real climax.

   More a conventional relationship movie than the title suggests, there’s more talking about sex than sex, though there is actual sex.

   The fool’s girlfriend is hotter and hornier than him, creating issues all around. ISSUES!

   Lesson 5 employs half a cantaloupe … and a tongue, as shown in the poster. Partly shown anyway.

   There’s manscaping involved, perhaps a non-sequiter but you’ve got to know what you’re getting into.

   This Canadian funded movie ends with dozens of Canadians thanked for “feedback on the script over the years.” Did they get laid for that? Could be a national service North of the Border. You never know.

   Laid or not, their fresh and funny sex comedy delivers as promised. Just be careful what you wish for.

4. Acting

   Very Good 3.5

   Jonas Chernick holds it together as Jordan Abrams, a Woody Allen nebbish, albeit more explicit. Chernick also wrote the movie, so he’s playing an idealized version of himself, a la the Woodman.

   Emily Hampshire is game and sufficiently gamin as a Toronto stripper and latent restauranteur.

   Sarah Manninen is cutely bitchy as a JCP who’s hotter and hornier than her betrothed. Trouble!

   Vik Sahay is a revelation as the coolest Indian ever. Dude’s slept with most of the hotties at a happening party he throws on a moment’s notice. Lucky too. Melissa Marie Elias plays his smoking hot betrothed.

   Supporters

   • Mike Bell as Naked Tom. He has an impressive penis.
   • Onalee Ames as Gypsy the Stripper
   • Randy Apostle as Rabbi Finklestein. Really, they got a guy named Apostle to play a Rabbi – Jewish as ham-on-white.

5. Male Stars Very Good 3.5

6. Female Stars Very Good 3.5

7. Female Costars Very Good 3.5

8. Male Costars Very Good 3.5

10. Film

    Good 3.0

    Sean Garrity and writer Jonas Chernick’s au courant film employs a paint-by-numbers plot, but does it well.

    Random Observations

    • Fancy production credits are the first thing you see. Lots of Canadians gave up lots of booty for this poodle to see the silver screen.
    • The lead guy is anal, a bit of a schlemiel, which gets annoying.
    • His girlfriend’s more sexually ambitious than him.
    • He’s Jewish, but his totemic text is Star Wars.
    • His fated lover has leather cuffs and vibrating toys.
    • Calling his girlfriend the C Word is a breakthrough of sorts.
    • She needs him but doesn’t love him.
    • Rule #2
    • They have an F Bomb breakup battle for the ages.
    • Love the airline gate guy. Love his buddy even more.
    • Secrets are revealed, very publicly. Cross dressing and everything.
    • Same section of Netflix as Zack and Miri Make a Porno.

11. Direction Good 3.0

12. Play Good 3.0

13. Music Good 3.0

14. Visuals Good 3.0

    You can tell it’s from Canada because of the plaid skirt.

15. Content

16. Edge

    Sordid 3.0

    An average guy sets about getting over-sexed, from which one might trace the downfall of the Western World in the descent of the RomCom, from Charade to My Awkward Sexual Adventure.

    Cary Grant is turning over in his grave right now.

    3, 2, 4 edginess pattern yields a deep sordidness, jaded territory as it were.

17. Sex Erotic 3.0

18. Violence Fierce 2.0

19. Rudeness Nasty 4.0

21. Reality

    Glib 1.6

    Au courant here means there’s an electric car appearance and iPhones galore.

    Circumstantially, Winnipeg has swinger clubs? Sure.

22. Circumstantial Surreal 2.7

23. Biological Natural 1.0

24. Physical Natural 1.0