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Virtual Sexuality | Year: 1998 Classification: Comedy Directed: - Nick Hurran Cute movie! At first this film seemed like it wasn't going to be that great - it was coming across to me as puerile and unoriginal. However, ten minutes later I decided I was completely wrong - it's an excellent movie! All right, it's never going to be great art, but it was still very enjoyable. All three leads were brilliant, interacting really well together and making me laugh out loud lots of times, and the slightly offbeat humour was refreshingly different from a lot of chick flick movies.<BR>I read the novel this film is based on (Virtual Sexual Reality, by Chloe Rayban) and really enjoyed it, so I was worried that the film would completely ruin it. I worried needlessly - the two are completely different, because while the book makes you think more, the film is more entertaining and has a better pace.<BR>Overall, my only gripe with this film is the ending. I just felt really annoyed that we know Justine and Chas didn't stay together forever (oops, spoiler). All right, that would be unrealistic, but I'm a romantic - I need to feel there's some hope for me! <BR>Overall, though, this film is really enjoyable - just right for a girls' night in, and some guys might enjoy it too. Maybe rent it rather than buy it, but definitely give it a go! sexual Virtuality This little no name film was a delight....originally I had thought it was going to be some b-movie bore, but in actuality, it proved to be a DVD Champ! Something has to be said about the wonderful cinematography.....don't get me wrong this film is most definitely not an oscar contender, but it does have some vivid footage....with wonderful camera angles as well as an infectious array of well played and thought out characters.... I recommend this DVD to anyone who wants a cleverly written comedic and charming teeny bop love story, which just so happens to have a groovy soundtrack, which is produced and utilized in a very hip and audibly enjoyable fashion... for what it's worth, I paid $9.25 for this, but had I known that it was this entertaining, I would have paid up to $20.00 for it.... Enjoy...and i hope this helps.... Don't get out much, do you. My first observation is that a lot of your 4/5 star reviews of Virtual Sexuality are from american viewers. All I can assume is you have a slightly tainted view of British humour, and assume this garbage passes as decent movie fair here in Blighty. It doesn't.<BR> Justine. A weak character on whom the basis is thankfully rarely placed, her only motivation is that at 17 (if she or any of the rest of the cast is really 17 then this is a 5 star film) she has yet to lose her virginity. Incapable of finding her "Bar-Code"/Perfect Man, she inadvertantly creates him in a ludicrous virtual reality booth thing that, once the building around it explodes, is creates in the flesh the being she's composed (well, as you do). Sure. I'll swallow that.<BR> What follows is a lame "girl becomes man" story, as Justine gets used to being "Jake" (the excuse for the full frontal nudity that earns the film its' 18 rating). The characters are thankfully limited - Chas, the nerd we KNOW will get Justine; Fran, Justine's friend who is off screen for most of the film; Alex, the token brainless football jock who thinks he's it; Hoover, the resident man-magnet; Justine and Jake of course; and two scientists, intent on getting Jake back for some "tests." It's difficult to care about any of them, or anything they do, as it's all so vague and dragged out (and very boring) until the film's eventual "everything's sorted out with cheerful ease and all is alright again" ending. Things are literally sorted with the touch of a button... so what was all the fuss about? Is Jake really linked to Justine? Why do they feel eachother's pain? Did Jake and Hoover have sex, or is Jake gay as presumably his feelings for Chas prompted Justine's? Tons of questions, none answered. It's never even very funny, assuming I wasn't asleep when the jokes were made. The plot is true second rate stuff, armed with a single twist (Jake is not Justine, but was created out of thin air instead, and simply has a copy of her consciousness and memories...?) and is dragged over too long a running time. The music isn't inspirational. The directing isn't anything fresh. Hell, the cast aren't much to write home about, with some shaky motivations and bad lines. It's just hard to care about any of it, and more importantly minus it's nude scenes, it seems an almost audience-less semi-chick flick, that's never exceptionally rude or adventurous, or fresh in any way.<BR> Truly a dire and tedious film, without any real merit or fun to be had. Even a blink-and-miss-him cameo from Desdonds' Porkpie won't turn any heads. Buy Virtual Sexuality at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Virtual Sexuality Search with the Priority Search Engine on Virtual Sexuality This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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