In "Casual Sex?", two friends seek romance amidst the pampering of a health retreat, but their quest for meaningful connections quickly clashes with the commitment-phobic men they meet, leading to hilarious misadventures and unexpected self-discovery.
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Casual Sex? is a casual mess. It's casual in that it is shallow, uninvolving, superficial and leaves no lasting impression, and a mess in that it's . a mess.
TV Guide TV Guide StaffThis is hardly a film that is going to change anyone's life, but while profundity is not its aim,Casual Sex? has a ring of emotional truth, as it cleverly pokes fun at the crisis-altered. sexual mores of the 1980s.
Reel Film Reviews David Nusair . a perpetually sluggish comedy. Los Angeles Times Michael Wilmington If the script is dubious, the direction matches it. The cast is less directed than exploited. Variety Variety StaffWith the late 1980s sensibility, their sex conversations are peppered with the girls' finding their own identities in relationships with men outside the sex act. Is it mature? Yes. Is it funny? No.
New York Times Janet MaslinAside from these confessional flourishes and the very infrequent bright remark (''It was the early 80's, and sex was still a good way to meet new people''), the film is as ordinary as it can be.
Washington Post Hal HinsonCasual Sex?, the movie, is exactly like the real thing -- kinda empty, kinda unfulfilling, and you feel just awful afterward.
Chicago Reader Jonathan RosenbaumDefinitely a lightweight movie, without any heavy ambitions, but for the most part a likable one; with script and direction by women, it's considerably less arch and dehumanized than the usual sex comedy.
People Magazine People StaffOnly the "Vin Man," a beast from the East named Vinny and played as a macho send-up by comic Andrew Dice Clay, lightens up the proceedings.
