There are so many good reasons to like this movie, it’s hard to know where to begin. First, it has a top notch comedy cast: Jason Sudeikis from SNL, Lake Bell from Children’s Hospital, Nick Kroll from The League and Tyler Lebine from Sons of Tuscon and Reaper. It’s really hard to go wrong with a funny line up like that. The movie was very funny. The basic premise: Sudeikis has been throwing parties in the Hamptoms at his dad’s house for his friends for years. But now his dad, who never really used the house, is selling it. The gang will lose their clubhouse and in between foiling realtors, Sudeikis and Lebine decide one last blowout (an orgy) is the way to go.
Second, there is a lot of hot chicks and nudity. Angela Sarafyan breasts are spectacular. There is a scene of dudity, but it’s for comic effect and very short.
But third, and maybe most importantly, this is a smart script. Writers Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck (in what looks like their first movie screenplay) really create a fully realized world. The characters all have good and positive traits. Plus, the ensemble cast has a long history together. The movie doesn’t waste a lot of time introducing people or creating uncomfortable moments where unknown characters need to interact with one another. The duo also directed the movie and it is tight. It seamlessly cuts from one group of characters to another.
This movie could’ve easily spiraled into cheesiness or wimped out when it was orgy time, but it doesn’t. Very little cheese here. You get the feeling that these characters are long time friends and the movie focuses on them and their history. And although the orgy is an important event in the movie, the focus is not so over the top, you wonder what the characters do outside of those events. For instance, there’s a wedding right in the middle of the movie, that isn’t super crucial to the story. It just happens and then the events continue.
Is there a romance? Of course. A Hollywood movie like this has to have one, but it’s not unusually obnoxious and easily could’ve been. Very little focus is given to the romance. Tyler Lebine nearly steals the show and Nick Kroll plays a character decidedly different from his one in The League. The movie was a good time. Boobies and comedy, what more could you ask? And although it had a sort of standard “Swingers-are-crazy” scene, for the most part, the movie treats sex and swinging in an adult and positive manner, which is nice to see.
I give A Good Old Fashioned Orgy 9 out of 10 keggers. Don’t miss some hilarious boobies.
