- Release Date: 1972
- Runtime: 87 min
- Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
- Starring: Woody Allen, John Carradine, Lou Jacobi, Louise Lasser ... see all
- Director: Woody Allen
- Plot: Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book by David Reuben. The segments range from "Do Aphrodisiacs Work?"... Read more
User Reviews
This is a very funny parody of pop sex-psychology literature
Sep 29, 2008
ironside - imdb.com
Sep 29, 2008ironside - imdb.com
The film is entirely about sexual perversions, even though it is not technically erotic
Allen has taken some of the most popular clinical treatments of sexual fetishes and has placed them into very unusual situations
Gene Wilder, for example, falls in... Full review
Tasteless but funny
Sep 21, 2007
Wayne Malin - imdb.com
Sep 21, 2007Wayne Malin - imdb.com
The title comes from a silly sex book that came out in the early 1970s and was a big hit. Read today the book is hilariously naive and full of misinformation. Anyway, Woody Allen took some chapters from the book... Full review
Allen's real breakthrough
Jan 07, 2007
Deny Hermawan - imdb.com
Jan 07, 2007Deny Hermawan - imdb.com
Well, it's quite interesting to watch this classic. The title of the film itself really catchy. Every segments of the film is "different", although it's related on sex issue. It's like been done by several directors. Here in "Do Some... Full review
When Woody Allen was funny
Jul 18, 2004
William J. Fickling - imdb.com
Jul 18, 2004William J. Fickling - imdb.com
Ever since the mid-70s, I have had a nostalgia for Woody Allen's early films. Everyone needs to grow, it's just that I think Woody has grown in the wrong direction. In the films that followed "Annie Hall" he seemed to... Full review
Everything you wanted to know, indeed.
Aug 18, 2003
Luis Crespo - imdb.com
Aug 18, 2003Luis Crespo - imdb.com
`Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex' is a landmark, and of course a great exercise in comedy. Dividing the movie in 7 different segments (with some not including himself in the leading role) was the best Woody Allen... Full review
Rabbits, sperm, giant breasts and a woody!
Jan 28, 2003
Lord Arthur Nameless - imdb.com
Jan 28, 2003Lord Arthur Nameless - imdb.com
Representing something of an early high point in Woody Allen's career, this scattershot spoof of David Rueben's highly popular sex-manual has become somewhat sadly overlooked in favour of the more mature and whimsical charms of 'Annie Hall' and 'Manhattan', but... Full review
Some work, some don't
Sep 15, 2002
bob the moo - imdb.com
Sep 15, 2002bob the moo - imdb.com
In a series of sketches Woody Allen looks at aphrodisiacs, bestiality, cross dressing, perversions, sexual experiments and the functioning of the body during intercourse. All this answers key questions about sex that perhaps we were all to afraid to ask.Woody... Full review
Skits range from flat to masterpiece.
May 15, 2002
pliegeoi - imdb.com
May 15, 2002pliegeoi - imdb.com
The different skits in this move, directed by the great Woody Allen, aren't all funny, but sometimes you have to go through stupid stuff to get to the funny material. The movie opens with a pretty funny skit, but after... Full review
EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX: 3/4 stars.
May 12, 2002
scriptwriter88 - imdb.com
May 12, 2002scriptwriter88 - imdb.com
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask is hysterical romp that makes the book look even more shameful. The sketches are hit and miss but the ones that hit are brilliant and will have... Full review
Hit & Miss, But What Hits Is Hysterical
Feb 28, 2002
shark-43 - imdb.com
Feb 28, 2002shark-43 - imdb.com
An uneven early work of Allen's, really just a series of sketches tied around the unbelievable popularity of the "sex" book "Everything You Wantedto Know About Sex, But Was Afraid To Ask" which in the early 1970's was THE book... Full review
Critics Reviews
eFilmCritic.com
Good idea, lame execution; Allens imagination exceeds his ability to shape it effectively.
Featuring Allen as a parachute-jumping spermand Burt Reynolds, making a rare appearance in a decent movieits clever AND hilarious, a nifty blending of social commentary and rapid-fire comedy.
... Full Review
filmcritic.com
Filmcritic.com A minor classic and Woody Allen's most absurd film ever, this series of seven short vignettes is worth a look for its '70s fueled humor and sex-crazed hysterics. ... Full Review
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Continuing in this vein, Allen becomes Fabrizio (an Italian sophisticate who has problems with his wife), Victor (a budding sexologist) and a sperm! Squeezed between these revealing segments comes "What's my perversion?", a Fifties style TV quiz show, and a... ... Full Article


