Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

oOoBarracuda Occasionally, a film emerges that is a stellar film ruined by a less than stellar title. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy is a film that may fit into that category. Although not a masterpiece, by any means, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy is a fine film by writer-director Woody Allen. Released in 1982, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy involves an inventor who hosts a weekend gathering of friends that quickly turns into professions of love altering the lives of everyone involved. Woody Allen plays the role of the idiosyncratic inventor who is experiencing a lack of love and sexual attention from his wife. They invite two couples to spend the weekend with them in their cottage. Maxwell (Tony Roberts) a physician and Andrew's (Woody Allen) best friend who has brought with him a new muse, a nurse that works in his office make up one couple. The other couple that attends is the cousin of Andrew's wife, Adrian (Mary Steenburgen) Leopold (José Ferrer). Leopold is a philosophy professor who has always spoken negatively of marriage before meeting his fiancé. Unbeknownst to Andrew, Leopold's fiancé turns out to be Ariel (Mia Farrow), his former girlfriend. The spark is reignited between Ariel and Andrew, but a new flame emerges between Ariel and Maxwell, also. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy has not been one of my favorite discoveries through this Woody Allen project I've been working through. There were some signature Woody Allen aspects that kept me happy enough, however. The music in this film was as divine as the music always is in every Woody Allen film. The film was opened with a discussion on metaphysical philosophy which will always be something this philosophy minor will be all-in for. The film was also shot beautifully with gorgeous images of landscape, animals, and geography gracing the screen. All-in-all, there is enough in A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy to tide over the loyal Allen-ist but certainly not the feast some of his other work is.

leonblackwood Review: I really wasn't that impressed with this movie because I didn't find it that funny or slightly interesting. The concept, which is basically about a group of friends who lust over each other in the wilderness, got a bit tedious after a while and Woody Allen's weak jokes and silly characters didn't have any depth or substance. The fact that everyone is lusting over Mia Farrow, didn't help because I really couldn't see what was so adorable about her. Woody Allen, who plays a mad inventor, was also quite annoying after a while and he just seemed to be running around, setting up rendezvous's with the different characters. The whole look and feel of the movie was quite dated and the storyline goes down some weird avenues that go a bit too far. Disappointing!Round-Up: With only one movie left in this Woody Allen series, I still haven't seen anything that amazing from this accomplished writer/director and I personally think that the movies with Diane Keaton are much better than the Mia Farrow ones. All of his films seem very similar to one another and the concepts, which are usually based around troubled relationships set in New York, aren't that imaginative. Before I got into this filmography, I was hoping to see the mind behind his unique work, but all I have seen is that he is definitely one for the ladies and he loves writing about relationships which are in turmoil, which shadows his own life in his latter years. Because I watched these films back to back, I honestly got fed up with them after a while and his humour is for a certain crowd which I am not part of.Budget: N/A Round-Up: $9millionI recommend this movie to people who are into there Woody Allen movies about a group of friends who get together in the wilderness and end up lusting for each other. 3/10

evanston_dad Woody Allen's spoof of Ingmar Bergman's "Smiles of a Summer Night" is one of his weaker efforts. Mia Farrow can be a wonderful actress, but she's just not the go-to person for comedy, and Allen would have done better to stick with her for his more serious work only.Even not very good Allen films, though, are good for a one-liner here and there, and "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" does deliver there. There aren't enough to make up for the film's stupid ending, but there are enough to make it possible to sit through.With this film, Allen was in a bit of a holding pattern between his excellent films from the 1970s and his fertile period in the mid-1980s.Grade: C

Isaac5855 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY was Woody Allen's amusing variation on the Ingmar Bergman classic SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT, which had been previously re-worked as a Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim called A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC. This film is about three couples in turn of the century who gather at one of their country homes for the weekend and it is clear at the beginning of the story that these three couples are hopelessly mismatched and we see the very human foibles that split up and mix up these three couples during this memorable weekend in the country. Woody and Mary Steenburgen plays the hosts for the weekend, a seemingly happily married couple whose happiness is clearly surface deep. Tony Roberts plays a womanizing physician and Woody's best pal who arrives for the weekend with his nurse (Julia Hagerty). In her first screen pairing with Woody Allen, Mia Farrow plays a former flame of Woody's who has arrived with her much older fiancée (Jose Ferrer) who she is scheduled to marry on Monday. Watching these three couples fuss and fumble all over each other in an attempt to be with the person they really want to be with is what makes this charming period comedy work. As always in Woody's films, music is crucial in setting the mood and Woody has chosen some classic Mendelsohhn pieces that set the perfect mood for the piece. The performances are uniformly fine, with Roberts a standout. Not one of Woody's better known films, but if you'd like to see where his relationship with Mia began, take a look.