Virtual Sexuality [Region 2] Reviews

• Not what you exected...

  
  By A3SRNXPKZXNA29 on 2002-08-25
  ...If you read the description on the back of the box. I was looking for a stupid, pointless, and thoroughly predictable romantic comedy. What I got was a wry, funny, and unexpected movie more than willing to poke fun at itself for the silly premise. Rather than a Pygmailion-like story of a creation come to life, this movie was more about understanding both sides of the gender line.

  When Justine becomes Jake, her computer designed fantasy bloke, she gets (or has) to go places always barred to her before, and to puzzle out the mystery of what makes a bloke tick. Trailing along with Chas, Justine's computer-geek-next-door, Jake ventures onto the basketball court, into the locker room (yike!!!) and even onto the dance floor with Hoover (guess why she got the nickname).

  This movie is hilarious, and well worth watching as the clueless and shallow Justine gets a good idea of what life and love are all about, both as a guy and a girl.
  
  

• Cute movie!

  
  By ACCEC9E3BDSPR on 2002-07-14
  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.
  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.
  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!
  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!
  
  

• I was entertained every second of the movie..............

  
  By A3AY34JJM42EUG on 2000-09-24
  This is one of those sci-fi comedies that provides continuous entertainment right to the end. The sex humour was great and a good moral is taught at the end of the show. The sound track was superbly aggressive with excellent programming in the LFE area. If you're into teen comedy then this is certainly for you.
  
  

• Bloody Good Movie , Blokes!

  
  By A2FBPTKERJ3PRI on 2001-04-18
  Virtual Sexuality tells of a teenage girl Justine who is tired of being a virgin and wants to just get the big 'it' over with. The trouble really is that no one really fits her idea of the perfect bloke. She expects far too much, and knows way too little about sex and love. Sometimes the man for us is someone right near us, a person we would never expect.

  While out with Chas (the nerd boy underdog) at a Virtual Reality show, she is intrigued by a make over machine. Justine being super cute and naive enters this machine and finds it rather interesting. After looking around it a bit and getting a feel for it she starts to see how it works. You can change your features , hair color and various other things. Justine messes around with this a bit and designs the perfect man in her eyes. Blonde, blue eyes , and manhood fit for John Holmes. Chaos ensues when a accident causes the machine to malfunction and the male (Jake) image Justine created is now real!

  It's basically a coming of age movie with a little Frankenstein mixed in. It has lots of nice little surprises in it , and those accents! It was refreshing to see a movie aimed at teenagers set somewhere else other than Middle America. This was surprisingly refreshing and a good visual treat.
  
  

• Cute Film

  
  By on 2000-08-15
  The characters were very charming in this film about a young womans quest for love. Its a light story, well done kept me entertained the whole way threw, and left me feeling good after watching it. I'd recommend it and would watch it again myself.
  
  
• Mix of great acting turns and too-hip execution.
  By A1XX5797TIZT5Q on 2000-09-08
  Yet another music-video-style director at the helm of this one. Nick Hurran saturates this charming (though obviously derivative) comedy with so many oh-so-hip jump cuts, voice-overs, superimpositions and post-modern techniques that it got me cynical about the whole movie about five minutes in.

  But Virtual Sexuality succeeds at least in part, due to one of the most old-fashioned of assets: Performances. Laura Fraser shines in both sensitivity and comedy as Justine (third-billed, inexplicably, though she carries the film), the lonely and frustrated teen desperate for romance. Fraser's incredibly expressive performance is what elevates his movie. In the quieter moments, when Hurran thankfully reins in his hyperactive directorial hand, the shifts in emotion in Justine's face are marvellous -- when Justine is conflicted about having to destroy the dream man she herself created, or when she wants to apologize to Chas (Luke DeLacey, adequate in the usual nice-geek role) for having ripped into him earlier, it's a real moment of heart. And Fraser is nicely balanced by the great comic timing of hunk Rupert Penry-Jones, whose performance as woman-in-man's-body Jake is wonderful (watch his postures as he moseys around Chas' room).

  Hurran's heavyhanded music-video techniques, gross overuse of music (including that godawful cover of Labelle's "Lady Marmalade" by, if I heard correctly, All Saints) and hipper-than-thou tone hurt this movie. But in the end, the beautiful interaction of actors saves this movie.
  
  

• sexual Virtuality
  By A3VSTTA8DAAPZ9 on 2000-08-02
  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....
  
  
• Good Movie!
  By A3IQ3JUCOCFKT5 on 2000-08-13
  This was a very fun movie, when i watch it the first i was like specting a porn-like movie, because of the title and i was totally wrong it was good comedy, with a lot of factors that made it a favorite.
  
  
• Don't get out much, do you.
  By A342AZPTC0QE57 on 2002-10-22
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  
  
• Not that bad of a movie but the story was a bit dumb.
  By on 2000-06-03
  The movie was confusing and the hole points of the movie was grate at first but then it just dint appeal to me anymore. I say you can pass this movie up.
  
  

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