Orgazmo Review
by Chuck Dowling (chuckd21 AT leading DOT net)May 20th, 1999
Orgazmo (1998)
***1/2 out of *****
Cast: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dian Bachar, Michael Dean Jacobs, Ron Jeremy, Lloyd Kaufman
Written and Directed by: Trey Parker
Running Time: 94 minutes
Crude, low-budget comedy from Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of Comedy Central's smash hit "South Park". Filmed before "South Park" became a big hit, but released after Stone and Parker's summer 1998 effort BASEketball, Orgazmo tells the tale of Joe Young (Trey Parker), a mormon on a trip to Hollywood who gets mixed up in the adult film industry after knocking on the wrong door. Eventually, Young becomes both a superstar in the business, as well as a crime fighting superhero.
Orgazmo is certainly crude (it's rated NC-17), but nothing in the film really offended me in any way. It's definately low-brow humor from start to finish, but even low-brow humor can be done well. Of course I could have done without seeing the "T-Rex" character or the rampant shots of naked male ass... which yes, I understand is part of the overall joke of the film, but still...
You'd probably never think that a parody of both porn and of martial arts films would be cohesive enough to be entertaining, but Orgazmo manages to pull it off. Sure with these kinds of movies most of the jokes are hit and miss, but enough of the jokes work here, therefore making it a pretty entertaining flick for fans of Parker and Stone. [NC-17]
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