Sex Lives of the Potato Men (2004) User Reviews

Completely disgustingly alright actually

[nellakram · 6/10 · 24 June 2004]

Oh my, such pretension, such pontificating, such bollox forwarded by other IMDb users. This film "does exactly what it says on the tin" (sorry American readers). It's called SEX LIFE OF THE POTATO MEN - did you expect English PATIENT perchance ??

Admittedly - I, like another member thought it would be akin to "Bottom" (sorry American readers) but after 5 minutes had that notion blown out of the water.My word, it certainly was crude - but who cares - give me crude anytime ahead of American graphic slaughter.

I thought is beautifully disgusting, wonderfully crass, amazingly childish and above all exactly what I expected !!

Now how's that for pretension

Exactly What It Says On The Tin

[SilkTork · 4/10 · 7 December 2004]

Sex Lives of the Potato Men is about the sex lives of several men involved in delivering potatoes. So there are no surprises there. It is, in fact, pretty much what you might expect from the title: that is, it's a quirky comedy involving sex and potato men. At times the film works. It's an edgy, sometimes uncomfortable comedy about the lives of some rather unimportant and rather average men who are having problems of various sorts with women. Where the film clearly does not work, and why it failed at the box office, is that the quirky, uncomfortable parts are perhaps just a shade too quirky and uncomfortable. Instead of laughing during the scene of a man suspended from a basement ceiling masturbating over another man while he makes love to his wife, I think most of us just kind of groan awkwardly and wonder what Andy Humphries was thinking. Well, perhaps we are shown what he was thinking all too clearly.

Fitfully amusing low budget romp

[musickrev · 5/10 · 14 October 2022]

Not as bad as some would have you believe, yet nowhere near a masterpiece, this vulgar (in the best sense of the word) sex comedy is a fitfully amusing trawl through the fantasies, fulfilled or otherwise, of a small group of delivery drivers. Interesting because of the strength of the cast, all of whom have done better in other comedies. Yet despite the weak direction and obvious budget constraints, they still do pretty well. Mackenzie Crook's character is perhaps most interesting as it is very close to the character he would present, much more fully rounded and developed, in "Detectorists". The seeds are present here, they just haven't sprouted. Hard to understand the vitriol thrown at this movie, it's certainly not pornographic, not even soft core, and the scatological jokes are simply typical of the type. While wishing it could have been better, I still found myself smiling.

Less offensive than a Richard Curtis picture

[Ricky_Roma__ · 5 August 2005]

Watching Sex Lives of the Potato Men is kind of like consuming 12 pints of lager, watching The Word, eating a cold pizza, abusing yourself to Page 3 and waking up in a puddle of your own sick. You know you shouldn't enjoy it. You should be deeply ashamed. But somehow you can't help but look back and grin.

There's no doubt about it. Sex Lives of the Potato Men is badly written, poorly directed and does nothing to further British cinema, but if quality were determined by how many knob and fanny jokes you could squeeze into 80 minutes, it would rival Citizen Kane. And I guess that's what the film comes down to. Have you got a dirty, sleazy, sordid, twisted, juvenile sense of humour? I have, and that's why I found it funny.

Picking the most tasteless joke is kind of like deciding who the world's most evil dictator is, but I'd have to go for the phone call where one character is using a porn chat line while eating strawberry and fish paste sandwiches (don't ask) and it's revealed that Johnny Vegas is sitting next to him having his breakfast. It's disgusting, it's crude but it's also very funny. As is the scene where a man is taped to the ceiling while watching his wife. Then there are the group sex scenes where Vegas is more interested in the parking and fixing the bed. The whole film has a very dysfunctional attitude to sex, one that is very British. Here sex isn't meant to be enjoyed and it isn't about love. It's just done so that you can brag to your mates as you're downing your 15th pint of lager. It's recreation. In fact, the whole film plays up the male fear of relationships. Men don't want to be nagged and they don't want to feel suffocated. They just want to have lots of sex with lots of different women.

I think that part of the reason that Sex Lives of the Potato Men got such vitriolic reviews was because of how unattractive and desperate the characters are. This skinny guy and this fat bloke will do anything for sex. Anything. But although some of the escapades in the film are outlandish, the desperation isn't too far from the truth. Men will literally debase themselves in the worst way for a little bit of action. We have no shame and no standards. We'll sell our mothers and soil our good names for ten minutes with a woman, even if it's completely joyless. That's just the way we are. But although this doesn't provide one with a warm, cosy feeling, and while it shows people at their worst, I can't help but find it funny. Sad, pathetic, sex-obsessed men are amusing.

But actually, it's not just the men who are sad and perverted. The women here are just as desperate, just as debased and just as filthy. You've got randy mother-in-laws, amorous grannies and a chip shop girl who likes to watch men scrubbing floors. According to Sex Lives of the Potato Men, we're all hopelessly kinky. But that's another reason why I kind of like it. It makes me feel normal and well adjusted. Far from making me feel bad by showing a film with muscled hunks and unattainably gorgeous women, it makes me feel good by showing people that are even beneath me.

However, this isn't to say that the film is a work of comedy genius. The filmmakers' idea of subtlety is having 69 on the front door of a house and calling a fish and chip shop 'Fishy Fingers'. But because I'm a person that is highly amused by everything scatological, sexual and that which could be deemed bad taste, there were more than enough laughs for me. I mean, yeah, it's kind of like Viz with the wit and the intelligence removed, but those knob and fanny jokes come thick and fast. And besides, personally, I find Sex Lives of the Potato Men a million times less offensive than dross like Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones' Diary. Yes Sex Lives may be like a tawdry tabloid that stains your skin, but at least it's a relatively honest depiction of life in Britain.

It's not for you, it's for the morons

[mattbaxter72 · 1/10 · 25 November 2011]

I think everyone knows about this film by now. Critics hated it, audiences stayed away in their millions, and when the British Film Council was abolished recently, one of the main sticks used to beat its corpse with was its financing of this movie.

I thought it couldn't be that bad. I thought it must have some redeeming value. Some funny moments, at least. I was so, so wrong. If anything, the critics were too kind to this unfunny, putrid pile of steaming faecal matter.

Ah, but it's not for you, is the reply. It's not meant for people who can string a sentence together, or do sums, or walk upright. This one's for the idiots, who just like something simple, a good old-fashioned chuckle at some sexual shenanigans. If you don't like it, it's because you're an intellectual snob. This is the modern equivalent of a Carry On film, just harmless, smutty fun.

Except it isn't, and I hope the film's defenders are haunted by the vengeful ghost of Hattie Jacques for even mentioning Carry On in the same breath as this... thing. The Carry On films were funny, at least every so often. They had these old-fashioned things called 'jokes' which were designed to make you 'laugh'. Someone needs to explain these concepts to the people responsible for making this movie, because they clearly have no idea what those things are.

This is a movie that expects you to laugh at the idea of a threesome - with 2 guys and a girl! At a man who has a big penis! At Johnny Vegas getting drunk and singing! These things are funny by themselves, apparently. They must be, because I was clearly expected to laugh at them.

A lowbrow sex comedy ought to be funny, at least. If it can't be funny (and good God, this cannot be anything in the same county as funny), then it can at least be sexy. Sadly, unless you find Johnny Vegas and Mackenzie Crook to be gorgeous hunks of manhood, this ain't very sexy either. It's a dead loss, a worthless waste of time that will even disappoint the gibbons who are its intended audience.

Truly awful!

[maggie-gill · 1/10 · 24 February 2004]

There are no spoilers for this film as nothing could be written that could make it any worse! The dictionary definition of "puerile" should now read: "sex lives of the potato men"! Unless, that is, you like dog poo and mucous; in which case - this is the film to see! Johnny Vegas et all - what WERE you thinking!

Utter Rubbish

[Huistra1 · 1/10 · 2 March 2004]

Another prime example of the ineptitude of The Film Council for agreeing to fund this embarassing rubbish that is a disgrace to cinema and a horrifying indictment of the decline of the British film industry. I walked out after 40mins so there's no real review from me. Johnny Vegas blobs his way thru every scene the way he blobs his way thru every chat show and tv appearance he has ever made. This man is not funny. But give him a script like this and he becomes the most ridiculous epitome of the talentless in our midst. Mackenzie Crook must surely view this film with deep regret. Who green lit this film? Hang your head in shame. Rubbish, rubbish, rubbish!!! Avoid at all costs.

Much better than its IMDb rating

[paulglasper · 7/10 · 11 March 2013]

This is a British comedy, I really enjoyed it, yes it's crass and crude but it's still funny! It shows that even unattractive men,(Johnnie Vegas and Mackenzie Crook as Dave and Ferris ) can still get their "end away" if they're not too particular.I watched this with my sister and we both agreed that we shouldn't like it but , despite ourselves, we did!. I particularly liked the scene where they're spit roasting some "seen better days" woman and he asks her if she has any porn to get himself "in the mood".It was also a little touching in that our Dad had not long died and we both agreed he'd of been creased up watching this film. Definitely worth more than the 4.4 rating!!

Gobsmacked....

[rw_jazzz · 3/10 · 18 February 2007]

Ever watched something so awful you just have to keep watching to be sure it really is as bad as it looks? This is one of those films. It was slammed by the critics on it's release, not least for the way it was funded. I caught it on TV last night and gave in to curiosity.

In the event, it is what it says on the box, no more nor less: low level humour, crudity, very much in the 'Carry On...' vein but with 'adult' language. Indeed, it harks back to the 60s/70s UK porn industry, cheating punters by promising real sex and not delivering (spot the nipple?) That whole tawdry era is lovingly recreated here but with modern cinematography.

It has the benefit of Mackenzie Crook (The Office, Pirates of the Caribbean and much more) and also Johnny Vegas. The chip shop girl is genuinely sexy. Beyond these unexpected positives, it does leave me wondering what happened to England. Junk food, low paid work, council estates, desperate lives. As a bonus, there are some nice shots of leafy Birmingham. Foreigners might find it informative about British attitudes and aspirations. Overall, though, I still feel disbelief that I sat through it.

Over time this will increase in popularity

[dave-3001 · 7/10 · 14 March 2007]

Not sure I should admit this, but i've seen this film a few times. I didn't rate it much when I first saw it, but it has characterisations that grow on you after a second and third watch. It was panned in the British media as the worst film ever made (probably by people who hadn't seen it) but the real reason was middle england's view that arts subsidies should only go to bringing down £100 opera seats to £90, not to make crude films. Johnny Vegas is fantastic, but McKenzie Crook steals it as the put-upon sexual plaything, Ferris. The emotionless portrayal of sex is bold in that it is amongst real everyday folk, not glamorous soft-core. Ignore the press and enjoy it for what it is - a good modern comedy

Dire

[jd-116 · 1/10 · 30 August 2004]

Some films are so bad they are good. So witless that they seem funny. Not this one though. It's just bad, bad, bad. I'm not going to waste any more time writing about this rubbish.

Some films are so bad they are good. So witless that they seem funny. Not this one though. It's just bad, bad, bad. I'm not going to waste any more time writing about this rubbish.

Some films are so bad they are good. So witless that they seem funny. Not this one though. It's just bad, bad, bad. I'm not going to waste any more time writing about this rubbish.

Is this 10 lines yet? I really can't be bothered to write any more.

Reviewers missed the point

[trinitybay9 · 8/10 · 27 February 2004]

This film has been treated most unfairly.

If the message of the film was 'these men are always lusting after and getting sex-isn't that great!', then I would agree with the comments about it being 'for morons' as one reviewer put it.

However, these men are losers. They lust after sex, and it always goes wrong. There is no titillation involved. We are not encouraged to see them as some kind of super-studs that young lads would want to emulate.

We are not laughing about sex or bodily functions, we are laughing about the ridiculous image that sex has in the media, where everyone is young, fit and beautiful, they all have orgasms every time and everyone is 'at it' day and night with no ill effects.

I find it amusing that the reviewers that work for the media which promote the fake views of sex, have failed to see the point here.

I must add here that it is a credit to the film-makers that they never stooped to nudity in the film. All too often we are presented with naked women in films for no apparent reason. Here it would have been more justified, but the film-makers have realised that the audience has an imagination-we don't need to watch the group sex to know that it is there etc.

Overall I found this film to be extremely funny. There was no embarrassment in the audience with people feeling free to guffaw at any joke they found amusing, even if they were the only one that got it.

If I were to suggest any problems with the film, I would say that some of the Tolly storyline went a bit far-I was most concerned when he brought the octopus home, for example.

However it will be a long time before the image of Tolly enjoying his sandwich, whilst Johnny Vegas is trying to eat his cereal will leave my head.

Final verdict Crude, but not gratuitous. Hilariously funny. Misunderstood. Not for granny.

Unrated Classic

[rianmurray · 7/10 · 20 January 2021]

"bees and wasps invented honey, that's how they became famous"..... It's classic lines like this that make this film in my opinion.

If you've never seen this, I highly recommend it (if you can find it). I doubt the missus would like it, definitely a blokes film. It's classic Johnny Vegas.

Put it on your bucket list to watch. Enjoy.

Hoping this is the worst film I see this year.........

[pigletbah · 2/10 · 29 February 2004]

I have no objection to people making bad films, I can always walk out. What I object to and do not understand about this film is how it got distributed. Saw this at the local Vue cinema pretty much on the basis "It can't be that bad" - I thought it was. Why were Vue showing it is my question? There are lots of movies out there that I would like to see but just don't get viewing time and even if some of them aren't good or general fodder they must be better than this nonsense. The cinema was nearly empty so Vue fortunately haven't made any money and maybe that might make them review their choice of films. Also how did it get Film Council funding? 18 cert for the language. As has been said only redeeming feature was the soundtrack.

Funny but filthy

[catlovette · 31 August 2004]

Being a girl this is the sort of film that I was warned about watching, but being an open minded individual I decided to give it a go.

I hate to say it but I found Johnny Vegas' acting not overly great, however Mackenzie Crook was very good, very believable character (I loved him in the office and I was worried that I would be put off by his acting ability in this film, but I was pleasantly surprised!)

This film shows a humorous side to kinky areas of sex that some people get up to which I found really funny, and quite a lot of it true !! Some people are very weird in the bedroom!

There's not really a detailed plot line, but judging on the title of the film I didn't hold out much hope :)so i wasn't disappointed!

Isn't it customary for a comedy to contain jokes?

[daviesjon-1 · 1/10 · 24 March 2008]

I found myself watching Sex Lives Of The Potato men with a furrowed brow, puzzled why so many talented and witty comedians decided to be involved in a film so totally devoid of humour.

Poo and wanking jokes are funny when you're eleven. Eighteen plus and you begin to lose friends around the water cooler.

Maybe some enjoyment could be had from this movie if you're the kind of person who frequently plays practical jokes involving dog mess, brown bags and matches, or maybe partake in 'man' competitions on nights-out by imbibing companions' vomit/urine etc when you're not back at your parent's basement punching your teenage wife.

Even then "Sex Lives..." it's hard to recommend. Perhaps if you're really weirdly into masochistic cranial surgery and spend your evenings happy slapping the elderly or watching toilets flush, you might think a close-up of a bogie is worthy of cinematic distribution.

I'd discuss characterisation, narrative or performances had I not zoned completely out following the lengthy tuna-paste/vagina comparison.

Very very bad

[cargo-cargo · 1/10 · 27 February 2004]

After the reviews for the opening weekend I thought SLOTPM couldn't be that bad. Surely the critics are just being snobbish and trying to lynch the Film Council.

This film is terrible. Please don't bother to go and see it unless you want to watch an abject lesson in how to make a bad film.

The jokes (actually are there any jokes that are in there?) are telegraphed a mile off and some amazing comic talent is wasted on a script that sounds as if it was written on the back of a fag packet.

I hope the film makers earned a decent wage on it so they can now retire and never go near a camera again.

Do not go and see this film

[pa-reporters · 1/10 · 23 February 2004]

I've never felt as consistently nauseous, appalled and disgusted while sitting through a film, as I did when watching Sex Lives of the Potato Men. In fact I wouldn't have stayed beyond the first 15 minutes if I hadn't been reviewing it for work. This film will seriously damage the careers of both Johnny Vegas and Mackenzie Crook, undoing all the good work of Blackball and Pirates of the Caribbean. While on paper it looks like a fun, if slightly risque, lads film. In reality it takes its inspiration more from the lowest dregs of the top-shelf magazines. The men are all sex-obsessed, which is fair enough in movie terms - hey it worked for three installments of American Pie! However, these guys have no redeeming factors, they are repellent, debased, and insulting to both men and women. Quite easily the worst film ever, because it is intentionally repulsive.

Crude but funny

[clzcyclone · 7/10 · 24 February 2004]

Being a US student studying abroad in Glasgow, I have no personal stake in the British film industry. Because of this, I wasn't about to be offended if it wasn't what I had expected going into the theatre.

I found the movie to be very crude, of course, but I laughed out loud numerous times. Just as many times I thought, "I can't believe they just said/did that..."

Nonetheless, leaving the theatre I felt I had been adequately entertained. A good one for when you want a movie that doesn't try to be any more serious or dramatic that it could possibly pull off.

Rude; crude and very low brow, Sex Lives of the Potato Men has to be one of the worst British films of recent years.

[johnnyboyz · 3/10 · 28 June 2008]

Oh Sex Lives of the Potato Men, what foul demon created thee? This is a film that you watch, smirk a little during the runtime and then when you mention it to others having seen it, you just cannot help but smile as you talk. But it's not that Sex Lives of the Potato Men is actually a funny film and one that inspires you to smile when talking or thinking about it, it's just that the film is so bizarre; is so insulting and is no shameless in its attempt to get across a meek laugh to do with sex and sex lives in general that you just cannot help but have your mouth break out into a grin. Do bear in mind that what follows the smirk is a sinking of the head; a consequent shake of the head and a raise of the index finger and thumb to both eyebrows as you gently rub them in an attempt to reminisce about your time watching this trash.

But that's what the film is, it's trash; it's very brave and shameless trash but trash none-the-less. Whoever came up with this idea, put it to paper and then spread it around the industry trying to get it made must either be very brave or very desperate. It's strange to have a film that is most definitely 'about' something but one that does not have, under any sort of circumstance, a decisive narrative. This follows on from that idea that most of European cinema is artistic and its stories are ambiguous and open-ended and themes take precedence over most other things. In Sex Lives of the Potato Men, the same situation and technically the same joke are replayed over and over again and that is an ideation that consists of: 'sex is a very, very funny thing.' These ideas are perhaps more suited to an American film so it's no wonder that after a while watching this film, things start to feel a little out of sorts.

The film begins and ends in the same manner, creating a feeling of a circular journey; a circular journey that has gone absolutely nowhere and absolutely nothing has been achieved. Three blokes sit around a table talking and what-not. Their boss joins them and the conversation is limited to whatever crude and disgusting stories, situations or scenarios each can possibly think of. The odd thing here, being that whenever one man says something nasty, the other grimaces but has an equally filthy story to give in return creating a contradiction in what these men find to cross the line and what they do not. The men are Dave (Vegas) and Ferris (Crook), two people joined by Tolly (Coleman) whenever the film sees fit to throw in a third face to crack some more nasty sex jokes or break some peculiar stories. They are employed by Jeremy (Gattis), a man who has deeper issues and problems but issues of which the film is more concerned with exploiting for the sake of humour rather than study.

So what's the situation in Sex Lives of the Potato Men? The three to four men are in a crisis and for the duration of the film, we will adopt the role of the hapless fly on the wall as we witness what foul play these people get up to over the period of about a week. If the humour revolving around Dave and Ferris is disgusting and repulsive, then for Jeremy things are just spooky. It all begins rather innocently and it appears there is a female he likes and one who equally likes him in return but when the essence that Jeremy is merely a stalker creeps in, that's when the jaws drop. The character of Jeremy is used and put across in a way that makes unrequited love and stalking in general merely look 'funny'. Jeremy sits in his apartment listening to classical music and writing out letters of abuse to Ruth (Davis), echoing some sort of psychotic persona more associated with Hannibal Lecter writing his letter's to Clarice in 2001's Hannibal. But whatever sympathy we might have for him at this point is rendered absolutely false when, later on, it is revealed the true origin of their relationship. Suddenly, we as an audience feel cheated into feeling a mite sorry for him earlier on and for whatever reason he did do what he did in the first place just seems cowardly and distasteful. To say what it was would ruin whatever few surprises lurk within the film.

Quite sad how, in one of Jeremy's letters, he writes about something-or-other exclaiming it to have "No artistic vision – just one big mess". I hate it when words said by the characters echo the film they're in. Sex Lives of the Potato Men does not explore someone's psyche or particular interest in a fetish or why they feel the need to go around having as much sex as possible, it just uses them as a front to pile on ridiculously unfunny jokes and situations. Rather than take group sex and explore what drives a person to seek it down, it makes a daft joke out of it (tickets with numbers on!?); rather than get into the mindset of a fan of Sadomasochism, the film has someone hang from a basement ceiling and warn everyone of 'incoming salt and vinegar' as he climaxes. Ferris covers his face in disgust and the camera fades to the next scene without too much of a fuss. It's a relief the film got to no audiences abroad. This is one section of British culture, indeed of the British mentality that I pray will be confined to our shores and ignored accordingly.

The Un-Fantastic Four: Funny and fun frolics of four failures.

[Cinema_Fan · 6/10 · 2 November 2005]

Written and Directed by Andy Humphries, this is the sex live's, or the lack of it, of the Potato men. It is one of the funniest movies that I have seen for a long time. I am not a huge fan of Johnny Vegas, but when he is good then he is very good.

Being the adventures of four of the biggest loser's you are ever likely to meet. Totally self-inflicted by their own stupidity, their obvious and desperate need for the opposite sex. These sad male chauvinist men should be renamed Billy No Mate's. The adult language and humour are very down to earth, played along with the interesting location's, such as the storeroom at the back of the chip shop.

Mike Gattis, star of the League of Gentlemen, is one of the four as well as the star of The Office, Mackenzie Crook. Each of the four lying to each other and to themselves, and recognising their own desperate plight and loneliness. The story make's it it's own on the hilarious method's the four work mate's are trying to, at least, better themselves. Trying they are, but at least they are trying.

There might be a little of the four in all of us, if you can't relate to at least some of this then you should get out more. A great out look on the Working Class and it's hilarious peril's of ignorance, sexism and desperation.

Very funny.

Unfunny Toilet humour . What A Shame

[Gezzerboy · 4/10 · 20 June 2004]

Now i like Johnny Vegas which is a good start, I also enjoy toilet humour

Such as Young Ones and Bottom etc. This however failed to bring even a

small smile to my face. The story follows Johnny around after his wife

chucks him out (how he got his good looking wife and kid i dont know)

as he attempts to shag anything that moves. Failing normally. I was looking forward to this but found it to be totally boring and a waste

of my time altogether. Unless you are stuck for something to do for 90 mins apart from wash the car then dont bother.....

Oscar, Bafta material.

[grahamsp · 10/10 · 9 March 2013]

It was the worst film of the year. A waste of Lottery money and disgusting.

PLEASE. It's a film for crying out loud which is not trying to change the world or lead us on a path to enlightenment.

I laughed my ass off. In your face crass humour all the way and if you don't like it then turn it off. A few beers and 90 minutes of gut wrenching laughter made me recommend this film to mates and they loved it.

If you are a prude, looking to unite mankind or think Spongebob Square Pants is silly then this movie is not for you.

Its a film people and personally I loved it money well spent.

Not that bad

[d-shilling-1 · 7/10 · 10 May 2006]

This is the sort of movie you never like to stumble across it's a " Hate it or Love it " movie. If you are into great acting,well scripted, blockbuster features with spectacular CGI specials effects and a £100 million budget -THEN DON'T WATCH THIS!!!!!!! This is a " Friday night in with the lads with a few beers getting drunk " movie.Well what do you expect from Johnny Vegas .This has great gags - kippers, strawberry jam, dog mess and randy mother in laws etc, and the acting isn't that bad.Don't knock this movie for being awful because its not you just need to have a sick sense of humour (like me) to enjoy it. There are plenty worse films out there and at least its better than the some old teen comedy rubbish that we get shipped over from the states.

More tragic than comic

[Tweekums · 2/10 · 17 March 2009]

Sometimes when a film is panned by the critics one just has to see it to see if it is really as bad as the claim, well in this case it was. I believe it was meant to be a sex comedy but it was neither sexy nor funny, I think I chuckled once when Johnny Vegas failed to vault a roadside fence and that was it.

The film follows the lives of four men who deliver potatoes for a living, each of them has a problem with their sex lives; Dave has left his wife and seeks out an old flame who once invited him for a threesome a few years before, Ferris is living with his mother in law who treats him as a sex object, Tolly has an obsession for involving strawberry jam in his encounters and Jeremy claims to be in a loving relationship but is in fact stalking some poor woman.

The tone of the jokes varies from tasteless to "I don't believe that anybody could write that" an example of the the latter being when they tell a small child his father has died in a car crash, then for the punch line when the boy asks how his mum is they tell him she is in a coma. The blame for this all lands squarely at the feet of the writers, the actors obviously made a poor choice agreeing to be in this film but I didn't think their acting was all that bad... not that it was all that good either. Surprisingly for a fairly sleazy film about sex there is no nudity and the sex is never erotic.

I certainly wouldn't recommend seeing this for any reason other than morbid curiosity although judging from other reviews this seems to be a love it or loathe it film, I suspect it would be better watched after a few beers and with your mates.