ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Loui Blair It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Sandoz If you expect to be taken seriously and claim that your film is a DOCUMENTARY, including dramatic re-creations with actors playing the real-life persons in ridiculously staged "greatest hits" of events in their lives instantly destroys any semblance of credibility.Either make a bio-pic, or a true documentary. You can't have it both ways.Worthless.

BoomerDT If you are old enough to remember the Playboy magazine's Golden Era, they used to run ad's in the magazine with that question, designed to show potential advertisers how cool, hip and sophisticated the readers were. Typically a very successful guy, maybe in his 30's, who drives a luxury sports car, has the best stereo equipment, drinks top shelf booze, dresses stylishly, takes vacations to exotic locations and is of course always surrounded by a beautiful woman. So in a National Lampoon parody of the early 70's they ran the "What Sort of Man Reads Playboy" ad that had a picture of a bathroom stall, with the magazine on the bathroom floor opened to the centerfold spread, in front of a pair of legs with their jeans and underwear pulled down by their ankles above their Converse tennis shoes, obviously belonging to an adolescent boy and you can obviously guess what he's doing.Which at the heart of it was what Playboy in its day was really about. For every reader who was the hip, good looking guy with plenty of disposable income who attracted gorgeous women, there were at least a dozen other readers who didn't fit into that peg. Teenage (and pre) boys who lived with their parents and kept their issues hidden from mom. College boys who had the centerfolds decorating the walls of their dorm or fraternity residence. GI's, sailors, prisoners. While Playboy did have some interesting articles, the superbly photographed pictorials of the semi-nude, drop dead beautiful women is what kept men buying the magazine at a time when any type of soft core erotica wasn't readily available."American Playboy" does a decent job of recapturing the history of the magazine and what was, at one time, truly a business empire and a delightfully hedonistic lifestyle Hugh Hefner indulged. It is done in a documentary style, with plenty of photos, rare film clips and cinematic reanactments. Matt Whelan does a good job of portraying Hef; he sounds exactly like him although their physical resemblance is slight as Whelan is a fairly big guy and Hef was a skinny runt. The story focuses heavily on the era of the 50's and 60's, the "Mad Men" period of Playboy and for the most part wraps up about 1980 after Playboy had its 25th anniversary. The final episode encompasses the past nearly 40 years as Hef handed over the reins of Playboy to his daughter, decided to get married and have kids (the marriage lasted 9 years) and then, in his 70's, deciding once again to self- indulge in the party lifestyle of his prime. Which brought us to the absolute silliness of the "Girls Next Door" reality TV series that lasted a few years in the 2000's decade.If you read Playboy during their golden era you will enjoy this. Snowflakes be warned, plenty of T&A and I'm sure you will offended by what you would consider to be sexism and exploitation of females. As a historical piece, not sure of the accuracy of everything because it is produced by Playboy and as a result if presented from their POV.

wotsonurmind This starts of very well with a hint of glamorous journey as Playboy ticks of the decades with the changes in culture with a sense of fun. By the third episode it has descended into a documentary -style BORING recap of events.What cannot be ignored or pardoned is the ridiculous foray into Martin Luther Kings Life,racism and how Playboy had a role in that! There is even a line saying' the MLK walk began a few months after the Playboy interview'! Give me a break. The attempts to show that the nudie magazine helped feminism ,sexism,Vietnam war,Kennedysetc in its own way is vomit-inducing to say the least!What would America do without Playboy!This should have been a journey through the culture (60s,70s,80s) and a fun journey with a wink to the viewer.Instead it takes itself too seriously and dare I say BORING to say the least!The attempts to extend each strand of story just a bit longer just to extend to a few seasons has the the opposite effect where the viewer has lost interest if any further seasons are ever produced!Expected better from both Amazon and Hefner.

vapingcookie This series would've been a 10/10 for me except for the last episode. I absolutely loved seeing the story of Hef's life--there was so much I didn't know about him. I just can't get past the fact that he never even named his girlfriends before Crystal--when Holly, Bridget, and Kendra were a huge part of his life (and revenue!) for years. The show makes it seem like Holly and company were just some of the random girls he was around, yet he didn't mind making a whole show about their lives. I get that he and Holly didn't end on good terms--but that should have been a part of the story. I have a hard time believing the other parts of it now. Such a shame, it was perfection before the BS of the last episode.