Sex After Kids

Following the lives of five different people, all with the goal of having some form of a sex life now they have children. We have a work weary straight couple, A hard working tired and sexually charge Lesbian couple, A slutty Brit abroad that choose an IVF child and now wants sex, A mother and father who have just seen their daughter fly the nest and much more....

I always ask myself three questions about any comedy film I have watched. These questions often allow me to understand how well I have received a film. The problem with comedy is that it is so difficult to gauge. I hated Brides Maids and cursed it after watching. The response to that film was amazing and as such left me a little cautious. Even before this I was challenged by another comedy film director and called a useless reviewer after calling his film 'unfunny and ordinary'. I still standby this review and do to most of my work. Anyway let me begin...

So after watching Sex after kids, I set about ticking the three boxes.... The first is did the film make me laugh. Like many genres you have an expectation of what you will get from the film but unlike others this can all fall apart if you do not get a basic requirement right. That is the basic requirement of laughter. This film had this in its arsenal and as such could be said to be funny. The truth is that there were a few weak chuckles but thanks to two very funny turns (one by Jay Brazeau and the other by Shannon Beckner) it had two very big laughs. These ticked that box and so we can move on.

The second question is 'if it wasnt a comedy would it still work?' This film has a heart and a center that is hard not to see but this is the films issue. The couples are not all very likable or even interesting. Some of their stories you actually hope that they do not breed and so do not force more of their offspring (and by genetic default) themselves on to this planet. Apart from the older couple and the younger, year without couple, I disliked many. This was so awful that I felt it was me and watched the film again...this could have made it worse for me to be fair..... massive cross in this box and an angry face or two....

The third and final question is simple, 'would it work a second time around?' Comedy can be very universal and on repeat still work. The Life of Brian and Friends are my examples of repeat laughs but here we have a major problem. The laughs work in the same way that you laugh if someone says an off hand remark. It makes you laugh or snort or giggle but it does not work outside of this circumstance or even on a repeat telling. I have worked at places where the same joke is told twenty times and is so less funny you fake laugh just to stop it dead. Fat cross in this box and so 6 it is.... a very lucky 6

DVD is vanilla...like most of the jokes...