Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

moonspinner55 Three man-woman couples vacation for the weekend at a summer house in upstate New York in the early years of the 20th century. Writer-director-star Woody Allen doesn't merely tread his own familiar territory, he treads other filmmakers' as well. Aligning himself with the masters (Shakespeare, Bergman and Renoir), Allen confuses the austere and cerebral with farce. While even recycled Allen witticisms (and characters!) still manage to be funny most of the time, his themes here--choices and regret, love and sex and the afterlife--prove to be a heavy load for a summer fling in the country to carry. Only when Woody falls back on his very modern talk (predictably a barrage of sexual frustrations) does he hit his stride as a writer, and yet the ensemble cast here doesn't quite click. Cinematographer Gordon Willis lights the outdoor scenes with a magical glow, but none of these lustful but doubtful neurotics are very appealing. ** from ****

leonblackwood Review: I really wasn't that impressed with this movie because I didn't find it that funny or slightly interesting. The concept, which is basically about a group of friends who lust over each other in the wilderness, got a bit tedious after a while and Woody Allen's weak jokes and silly characters didn't have any depth or substance. The fact that everyone is lusting over Mia Farrow, didn't help because I really couldn't see what was so adorable about her. Woody Allen, who plays a mad inventor, was also quite annoying after a while and he just seemed to be running around, setting up rendezvous's with the different characters. The whole look and feel of the movie was quite dated and the storyline goes down some weird avenues that go a bit too far. Disappointing!Round-Up: With only one movie left in this Woody Allen series, I still haven't seen anything that amazing from this accomplished writer/director and I personally think that the movies with Diane Keaton are much better than the Mia Farrow ones. All of his films seem very similar to one another and the concepts, which are usually based around troubled relationships set in New York, aren't that imaginative. Before I got into this filmography, I was hoping to see the mind behind his unique work, but all I have seen is that he is definitely one for the ladies and he loves writing about relationships which are in turmoil, which shadows his own life in his latter years. Because I watched these films back to back, I honestly got fed up with them after a while and his humour is for a certain crowd which I am not part of.Budget: N/A Round-Up: $9millionI recommend this movie to people who are into there Woody Allen movies about a group of friends who get together in the wilderness and end up lusting for each other. 3/10

gridoon2018 "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" is, in my opinion, an improvement over Woody Allen's previous effort, "Stardust Memories", chiefly because Woody seems more sure of himself here; "Stardust Memories" was essentially all about his indecisiveness about whether he wants to make serious or funny films; with "Sex Comedy" he settles down to a strategy: a comedy with serious themes - a strategy that has since become his trademark. This movie has a couple of very funny scenes, but it also examines marital problems, love at first sight, missed opportunities, pragmatism vs. metaphysics, the possibility of an afterlife, etc. Above all, it succeeds in transporting the viewer to a different place and time - it feels like a vacation from the noise of modern cinema. Allen's usually right-on-target instinct about the music and the casting of his movies is in full evidence here, with him and Mia Farrow quickly developing the kind of connection that he only had with Diane Keaton in his previous films; Mary Steenburgen is amazingly lovely as his on-screen wife. But the real stars of this movie may be the beautiful locations where it was filmed, and Gordon Willis' cinematography which memorably captures that beauty. *** out of 4.

Red-125 A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) was written and directed by Woody Allen. Allen also stars in his iconic role as a more-or-less decent guy with the ability to say or do the wrong thing in almost any situation. Woody has surrounded himself with talent in this film. Jose Ferrer plays the pompous professor Leopold, and Tony Roberts plays the "fast" doctor Maxwell, who is Allen's best friend. The real clout comes from the female actors: Mia Farrow is Ariel--engaged to Leopold, but maybe in love with Woody, or maybe even with Roberts. Julie Hagerty plays Dulcy, a young but not-so-innocent nurse who has accompanied Maxwell for the weekend. Mary Steenburgen portrays Allen's wife Adrian, who has become frigid for reasons that she knows but we don't.Shakespeare realized the potential of midsummer's night for fantasy and for love, and so did Ingmar Bergman in his film "Smiles of a Summer Night." Allen has never been afraid of taking on a challenge, and he maintains the tradition with a script where almost every man wants almost every woman, and vice-versa. The film is all about love, and all about sex. However, because it's rated PG-13, you know that there won't be any on-screen nudity. Actors talk about sex, they arrange secret meetings and talk about sex some more, but we never see them without multi-layered early-1900's clothing. That's OK--this movie is about the chase, not the consummation.The film contains some beautiful scenery, so it would work marginally better on a large screen, but it was certainly satisfactory on DVD. Incidentally, the soundtrack is composed entirely of music by Felix Mendelssohn. You may not realize that Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream contains a melody we hear all the time. You'll recognize it instantly.