Waste of time

i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

This movie is not funny and not sexy. The story is ultra basic and so are the jokes and the characters. None of them are likable and the entire movie could have been summed up in a four minute short. Avoid unless you need something to put you to sleep. A real waste of one of my fave actresses, who normally is very funny. I can't believe she's in this.

It took me two attempts to get through this movie, and the only reason I did is that I'm the type of person who absolutely insists on watching an entire movie unless it is completely unwatchable. I fell asleep on the first attempt, and got through the second time though it wasn't any better. I was wide awake on both attempts.This movie is not that horrid, but it is quite boring with a predictable and unfunny script. The acting is not great but I've seen the stars of this (the two main female leads) in other movies where they were fantastic, so I think the real problem here is that they didn't have much to work with (again, the script).It just seems like a lazy, boring movie, where they probably got funding from a studio based entirely on walking in and saying "hey we can get these two sexy women to be in a movie that's about an orgy" and then they coasted on that.It's not at all funny and even less sexy.

Foremost: there are no orgies in How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town. Well, there are a few failed attempts, but they tend to be more tragicomic than sensual. And, after all, that's the point of the movie. Instead of making a vulgar comedy (something which would have surely been more lucrative), director and screenwriter Jeremy LaLonde made an analysis on the sexual politics of an idyllic Canadian community, simultaneously more repressed and perverse than what many people would suppose. Sure, it isn't a newfangled idea... the turbulent secrets under the placid surface of a small town are a recurrent theme in cinema from its origins themselves (some of my favorite examples: Blue Velvet, The Wicker Man -1973-, Village of the Damned -1960-); and even though How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town isn't particularly "erotic", I found it moderately interesting... but not very satisfactory. The main pro of this film is the competent performances from the whole cast, highlighting Jewel Staite, Katharine Isabelle and Kristian Bruun. As for the result of the failed orgies, it's quite predictable: love for some ones, repaired (or destroyed) relationship for other ones and emotional catharsis to those who were hiding some painful sexual secret. In other words, it might have the title of a sexual comedy, but the truth is that How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town ends up preaching the same monogamous fantasies of conventional romantic cinema. In conclusion, this movie is much more innocuous than it seems, but I have to say it never bored me. I just wish the screenplay was funnier, or genuinely subversive, instead of staying into a lukewarm niche which doesn't want to offend anyone... except the ones who were expecting the attractive actresses to show up naked.

If your say, in your late teens or maybe early twenties you might just like this film. Younger people are easier to please in my experience. I'm sure that's the audience target because much over that age group and I think you'll probably be too sophisticated to find this film entertaining. The film is really let down by the script which is neither clever, insightful or funny, it's just juvenile. It's verbal Slapstick. The 'plot line' and I use the term advisedly, doesn't quite hold up or ring true. It contradicts itself as does the characters. With a better script and direction it could have been far better. I'm not sure what it was trying to say,I expect nothing.