Orgazmo (1998)

If you're even remotely interested in either comedy, animation or TV-shows, you must have heard of Trey Parker and Matt Stone – the genius creators of the famous South Park. But just like every other successful person, they had to start somewhere. Parker and Stone started their careers by creating low budget comedy movies. The first full-length movie they created was the 1993 black comedy named Cannibal! The Musical aka Alferd Packer: The Musical and then, several years after, in 1997, they finished the interestingly named comedy Orgazmo. Orgazmo, while not being a particularly good movie, is a good early example of Parker and Stone's distinguished sense of humour.Orgazmo is about a young Mormon named Joe Young (Trey Parker) who is in a happy relationship with his fiancée Lisa. They plan on getting wedded in some church or something, but unfortunately they have no money to do so. However, Joe, for no apparent reason, has extremely good fighting skills, which come in handy when a porn director named Maxxx Orbison (Michael Dean Jacobs) sees him beating up a couple of guys and decides to hire him in his newest porn/super-hero movie. Joe reluctantly accepts, but says he will only do the actual acting, none of the intercourse. They agree on using a 'stunt cock' to film all his sex scenes. And so Joe finds himself playing the title role of Orbinson's newest movie – Orgazmo.The premise of the movie is very silly and very 'South Park-esque', if I may add. But what works in animation, doesn't necessarily work in non-animated movies – especially when it comes to humour. And the humour in Orgazmo is very versatile – there's toilet humour, there's spoof humour, there's self-parodying (the movie deliberately looks bad from time to time) and there's original jokes. When a movie has so many different types of humour in it, it's hard to enjoy every one of them. The toilet humour is the one that bothered me the most and I found those jokes to be the least funny ones. Apart from that, I did laugh quite a few times.The acting in Orgazmo is classic 'low budget-trashy' and it doesn't want to be anything more. However, the interesting thing is that a big number of actors starring in Orgazmo are actual porn stars – the most prominent being Ron Jeremy and Chasey Lain. All in all, Orgazmo is just another trash movie that may be fun but truly isn't anything special. If you are a die hard fan of South Park/Trey Parker/Matt Stone, do check out this early creation, you'll probably be pleasantly surprised. As for the rest of you, the only thing that will quite possibly entertain you is Orgazmo's goofy title.Rating: 6/10 Read more at http://passpopcorn.wordpress.com/

This movie stars Trey Parker and was co-written by him. So, I expected it to be crude and offensive (and it was). However, I also expected it to be really funny, as Parker's other projects ("South Park", "Cannibal the Musical", "BASEketball" and "Team America: World Police") are brilliant and hilarious. Sadly, the film mostly just succeeds in being very offensive--but not at all funny. It's a film filled with potentially funny situations but few punchlines or laughs.Parker stars as a Mormon missionary in Hollywood. He stumbles into the porno industry and soon becomes a sensation in adult films--though it never really made much sense why a committed Mormon would do this or why he was successful. Regardless, once in the industry, he only plans on being there a short time--but the evil man in charge isn't about to let him leave and resume his life in Utah. So, using an orgasm ray that his porn star friend, Ben, made, they wage a two-man war against evil. In many ways, the plot is reminiscent of Parker's play, "The Book of Mormon", that has taken Broadway by storm--though "Orgazmo" is light-years different when it comes to laughs.The film is filled with ample adult toys and sexual situations, though not nearly as much nudity as you might expect--though it is still no exactly 'family-friendly'. But where is the humor? You might laugh a bit at the crude situations and toys but soon they become a bit tiring and the film never really seems brilliant or inspired...just rather dumb. My advice is stick with Parker's other projects. Even for a raunchy comedy, this one is pretty bad.By the way, Parker's "South Park" partner, Matt Stone, has a small role as a mullet-wearing idiot. Unfortunately, he's mostly wasted and his character comes off as very broad and annoying. I guess you can't win 'em all.

Fans of South Park will love to go back and see the live action movies of its directors, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Orgazmo even features Trey Parker as the main character, Orgazmo.In this hilarious laugh at the porn industry with a bit of a tongue in cheek look at mormons, Trey Parker plays a mormon who happens to be an expert in martial arts who ends up being the accidental star of an adult movie called "Orgazmo". This isn't a fall from grace ride, though, as he keeps most of his morals by using a "stunt cock" and keeps the moral high ground.The movie has jokes at so many levels, including actual members from the porn industry, deliberately bad special effects and a plot that is both funny and interesting, albeit in a slapstick comedy way.Provided that you can get over them making fun of mormons and the porn industry, in other words provided that you aren't a total prude, you will love this movie. Get over the lack of special effects and love this for the cult classic that it is.This is a pure masterpiece of cinema, from the people that bring you the genius that is South Park.

So, when you hear that Trey Parker of South Park fame wrote, directed and starred in a comedy set in the world of porn you had to think this would be a movie that had the potential to be excruciatingly bad. Then as you watch it you may be pleasantly surprised for the first half hour or so and think this isn't so bad. But then as the movie drags on you'll find yourself thinking that, yeah, this is pretty bad after all. But it could have been worse.Plot really is not important here as the movie's only goal is to make you laugh, which it manages to do only sporadically. Anyhow the plot such as it is, features Parker as devout Mormon missionary Joe Young, who through a series of unlikely occurrences finds himself starring as "superhero" Orgazmo in the most successful porn film of all time. Orgazmo, whose weapon immobilizes enemies by giving them orgasms, has a sidekick, Choda Boy, who runs around with a dildo attached to his head. Yes, the cheese factor in this movie is off the charts. And while some of this cheese is initially good for a laugh eventually it all wears very thin. Maybe the porn world is just too bizarre but the whole thing comes off as incredibly awkward and forced. They're trying too hard to be funny and they're not succeeding. Matters are not helped by some less than stellar acting, most notably from Parker who as a live action actor...well, let's just say he's really good in his cartoon. Here, not so much. The rest of the cast is not much better. When Ron Jeremy gives the most convincing performance in your movie you've got problems. And yes, this movie has problems. All in all, it's pretty bad but you get the feeling it could have been a lot worse.