Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

itamarscomix This Australian rom-com deserves some credit for portraying a relationship in a sincere, mature manner, not idealizing sex nor demonizing it; the story itself is surprisingly realistic and very easy to relate to. Also commendable is the fact that Jonathan Teplitzky is quite able at writing both woman's and man's dialog, equally and realistically.Teplitzky is an able writer, but he made far too many mistakes in the movie to make it a good one. The taxi driver's character is a complete misstep, that comes off pretentious and clumsy, the music is irritating, and the voice-over telling us what the characters think comes up in arbitrary moments and leaves us confused as to what the characters thought and what they actually said. The dialog is realistic most of the time but the delivery - especially Susie Porter's - is often flat and lacking in emotion, which is especially painful when she delivers lines like "I want sex. I love sex" or "I love you" (while getting it from behind, no less) completely deadpan. It doesn't help that the two leads - while they're by no means bad actors - have no on-screen chemistry whatsoever and their emotions are never believable.Most jarring of all are the random interview segments, on cheap generic backdrops, that seem like a cheap rip-off of When Harry Met Sally and Annie Hall, and serve no purpose. The people being interviewed aren't interesting, and they don't make any comment of interest about relationships and sex; instead these segments rely on the oldest relationship clichés in the book - Men leave the toilet seat up? Women take a long time to get dressed? Men like getting oral sex? Really? That's the big problem with the movie - Teplitzky wanted to make a relationship movie about experiences we can all relate to, but he made it so generic that he forgot to add anything of his own.

Spleen It's always instructive to watch films released no more than a year apart, tackling an identical subject, with many ideas in common, yet made in different countries and causally unrelated: take Australia's "Better Than Sex", and France's "A Pornographic Affair". It hurts to say it, but the French completely outclassed us. (AND they got in first.) But you don't have to see the French film to work out what's wrong with this one. English critic Cosmo Landsman put it best: "There's nothing here you couldn't learn by reading 'Cosmopolitan'."I have nothing against 'Cosmopolitan', but before starting work on a project like this you must decide if you wants to create a "How Compatible Are You?" quiz, or a work of art; its one or the other. They bathe the paper on which 'Cosmopolitan' magazines are printed in a kind of aesthetic disinfectant, and this film has gone through a similar process. The acting is good. It's the one feature of Australian films... And, I should admit, there's enough real humour to make it all wash down easily. But I got the uncomfortable feeling afterwards that I hadn't seen a movie at all. The taxi driver, who could have been a delightful fantasy element, was instead an embarrassingly naked cop-out, and that's what the device of interviewing the central protagonists turned out to be, too. Two films handled it much better: "When Harry Met Sally", and the French film. There was a point to the device in both cases. In "When Harry..." it's an outside-the-narrative device, placing the two central characters in the context of a larger world; in the French film, it's an INSIDE-the-narrative device, letting us know that the central characters have since reflected on the past. In "Better Than Sex" it's just a clumsy extravagance.

Archibald This is the third time i have seen this film, and i absolutely adore it :). It's so fresh, sexy and real. I would just crawl into the cinema seat, with my love and simply enjoy it. :) The photo session of the film is the one of the best, okay, they don't use such a camera and scenes to produce such shots there and then, but i don't care, it mixes great i think. The fact that both Josh and Cynthia is so usual gives the film an authentic look. :) Great sex scenes and the usual differences between man and woman on display. :)

PJ-52 This is a great investigation into the challenge of having a merely sexual relationship with someone without letting emotions come into it. But, eventually emotions come into it because sex is more than just the release of biological urges. The two main characters Josh and Cin are perfectly portrayed by their players David and Susie. I'm sure they would have put a bit of themselves into their roles. The toughest part would have been filming the sex scenes and for the director filming the scenes without a hint of pornography. My rating: 8/10