Decent idea not carried out well. Loser dork buys a sex appeal "how to" book and decides to do everything it says. He starts by renting his own apartment from a weirdo landlord who wants to write the all American novel.The landlord spies on his new tenant to get ideas for his book and mistakenly believes this loser is a Casanova with women and ends up writing a hit book. Meanwhile our loser dork is actually trying and failing at everything in the book that is supposed to make him score,while lusting for his new blonde neighbor. What little humor there is falls flat,the print is dark and the sets are plain and drab while the acting is average for this type of film. There is some nudity but most of the girls are not very attractive. This is one of the many 80's teen sex comedy's that can be avoided even for fans of the genre.
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zep-325 August 2012
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jellopuke4 September 2020Imagine if someone tried to film a sex comedy version of The Apartment but forgot to include: plot, laughs, likeable characters, ANYTHING resembling a joke. BUT they did manage to include heavy New YAWK accents, boobs of all shapes and sizes, and a short run time. Normally, boobs would be worth at least two stars, but this was so unfunny that it was nearly unwatchable.
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akoaytao123412 April 2023A film about a twentysomething ready to go full base but his trials would not left unheard. As he tumbles, his tales of failure became more famous AND his and his family's sex life gets complicated.
Awful and almost Z level in quality. No one can act. The write cannot write anything sensible AND the direction is amateurish.
To be honest, I just wrote this review since I looked up the actors and found that one of the actor had became a cult/spiritual guru under the name of "LOUIX DOR DEMPRIEY" and almost all of the principal cast having their career going into a halt after the 80s, which is sad but the industry is tough.
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th-562343 January 2024It's one thing to start watching a movie and think "hey, I've seen this before...this is so familiar" and then to look up the people behind the film and look at their body of work and realize it's not just a remake, it's a remake by the same people. Chuck Vincent rehashes a film from the hard side of the industry that he made back in 1980 and simply takes the hard core aspects out with newer and even less capable actors in the main roles. Ron Jeremy played the main character in FASCINATION from 1980 and the overbearing mom was there, the philandering father, the obnoxious sis, all of it. The same supporting characters are there too...some of them reprising their roles from the FIRST!
This is not worth the views people. The acting is totally uninspired, the film making skills are totally void and the fact that CV remade it and did it WORSE is rather criminal. AVOID. I would demand my money back if there were money involved. -
sunking6 October 1998I couldn't stop laughing throughout this whole movie.
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I love old comedy's like this. I wasn't around when this came ou of course but I always have found older movies to be good. If you like rom coms or sex comedy's then this is definitely for you. I could do without the mother being so attached to him. My mom and me were pretty close before she passed in 2020 but the mom in this movie is ridiculous. Plus, there is nothing wrong with having sex with people so anyone who thinks this movie is bad for that has no idea what they are talking about. I guess what I'm saying is if you don't like talking about sex or seeing sex in a movie then don't watch this movie and keep your comments to yourself cause I like this movie and I don't appreciate bad comments about a good movie. After all, movies are magic and that magic is eternal l.
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lor_13 March 2023My review was written in July 1986 after watching the movie at a Times Square screening room.
"Sex Appeal" is a farcical comedy let down by its script. Yet another opus about a young man trying anything to get laid, picture went into regional release in May but is best suited to the less demanding ancillary markets.
Filmmaker Chuck Vincent has remade his 1980 hardcore porn production "Fascination" (which was directed by Larry Revene, who returns as cinematographer this time) that starred Ron Jeremy as a Jewish kid consulting a how-to book on getting dates. This time around Louie Bonanno toplines as Tony Cannelloni, an Italian kid from New Jersey who buys the book "Sex Appeal" as a guide to sexual conquests. Key element of the strategy is to move out of his parents' home to a bachelor pad in Manhattan, where his landlord/neighbor Donald (Jeff Eagle a/k/a Jeffrey Hurst) eavesdrops and uses Tony's misadventures as the basis for writing a lucrative series of articles for Playhouse magazine about the New Jersey Casanova.
Film briefly moves into the territory of Billy Wilder's "The Apartment" as Tony's father and sister separately try to use his pad for their own secret trysts, but essentially it's a bedroom farce without enough laughs. Early scenes at home around the dinner table are particularly flat, in the vein of "Saturday Night Fever" ethnicity.
A supporting cast loaded with talent familiar from Adult films turns in good performances, particularly two actresses who also appeared in "Fascination": Merle Michaels, cute as a nonstop talker with a Judy Holliday accent, and Veronica Hart ("Fascination" was her screen debut), hilariously spoofing the false passion of erotic scenes as she squeals loudly and endlessly at the slightest touch. Lead actor Bonanno is not very interesting and his terrifically-built leading lady Tally Brittany (a/k/a Tally Chanel) is unfortunately consigned to a small role that is more tease than necessary.
Cast employs a variety of pseudonyms, real names and alternate stage names arising from each thesp's attitude to the demarcation between Adult and mainstream filmmaking. Fans will easily sort it all out by recognizing familiar faces.