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

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

i SkyWalKing Look I like Woody (I know he did not direct this but...), and he has so many films that not all will appeal to everyone. He is very hit and miss of course.....but are we seriously supposed to believe that these beautiful wealthy women would pay this ugly lurch to sleep with them? Not only pay him but pay him in the THOUSANDS?! The type of money that male politicians spend on prime escorts? Not only would a female not pay this lanky noodle-necked fool for sex, but I think there may even be some women who wouldn't sleep with him if HE was the one paying.Also WHY does the Jewish/Zionist industry (98% of Hollywood) feel the need to shove their ridiculous religion in our face at every turn? I get that they are in a 'Jewish' neighbourhood but seriously. It is unbearable. And male 'Jew' figures in Hollywood have a tendency to "shoot up" in their films. Woody Allen does it, Jerry Seinfeld and Costanza did it and so on.....these are some incredibly unattractive characters who just stroll around their made up worlds and score any and every beautiful female who crosses their path and make them fall head over heels for them. Please man.... get real.I just could not get past these issues with this specific film. Otherwise it could have been an OK film.

ozjosh03 If the parts played by Sharon Stone and Sofia Vergara featured instead, say, Kathy Bates and Imelda Staunton, then there might be some way of taking this film seriously. As it is, no way! We're expected to believe that Stone and Vergara would a) need to pay some guy to have a threesome with them, b) that Stone, playing a Dermatologist, would arrange such a tryst through an elderly client, c) that they'd settle on John Turturro as their ideal man, d) they'd pay him $1000 apiece. If it's not already obvious from that set-up, Fading Gigolo is pretty much a Turturro homage to Woody Allen. Beyond being set in a world where sexy women chase after nebbish guys, the humour, the tone, even the soundtrack is all typical Woody. So it's hardly surprising that Woody is there as the pimp, virtually performing an homage to himself. It's all beyond strange.

Lee Eisenberg John Turturro steps behind the camera, casting himself as a male prostitute and Woody Allen as his pimp. "Fading Gigolo" also looks at the mores of New York's Hasidic community (some of which sound like ideas from the Taliban). Allen's character is his usual self, while Turturro's clients - played by Sharon Stone and Sofía Vergara - remind one of Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate".The main thing that I took from this movie is that Woody Allen does best when he simply tries to be funny. His movies got boring when he started focusing on neurotic rich people (don't even get me started on the god-awful "Everyone Says I Love You"). Although "Fading Gigolo" depicts such people, it's more of a satirical portrayal. Also, Allen does well in movies directed by other people: there's this one plus "What's New, Pussycat?", "Casino Royale", "The Front" and "Company Man". You'll like this one.I'd like to see Woody Allen make a horror flick. He would play a nebbish fleeing zombies (likely played by scream queens Adrienne Barbeau, Linnea Quigley, Jamie Lee Curtis, etc), and telling people that the zombies aren't as scary as producers who think that commercials qualify as art.

SnoopyStyle Murray Schwartz (Woody Allen) is forced to close his rare books store which his grandfather started. His dermatologist Dr. Parker (Sharon Stone) tells him that she and her girlfriend Selima (Sofía Vergara)want to experience a ménage à trois. He tries to pimp out his friend part-time florist Fioravante (John Turturro). Fioravante agrees to a tryout first with only Parker. Avigal (Vanessa Paradis) is the widow of a rabbi who cleans Murray's kid of lice. Murray convinces her to try out Fioravante. Dovi (Liev Schreiber) is in the local Jewish neighborhood watch Shomrim who is jealously in love with Avigal.Comedy is subjective and I subjectively don't like it. I get where the jokes are suppose to come from but I didn't laugh. John Turturro hardly smiles and that gets tiresome. Woody is trying so hard that it borders on plagiarizing himself. None of these people are particularly likable. The only one is Avigal whose touching story almost works. The movie has a weird odd mixture that keeps it from being bland but it's just not funny.