"My doctor says now I have enough silicone in my body to kill a small elephant! Isn't that cool?" Calling this film "stupid" would be an insult to stupid people. Fortunately, in spite of (or perhaps because of) its stupidity, Orgazmo manages to be a devilishly funny, crude, and surprisingly sweet story of devout Mormon Joseph Young who, through his incredible kung fu prowess, lands the lead role in a pornographic film called Orgazmo. Now, I know what you're thinking: why would a Mormon be in a porno? The answer: he's offered enough money to get married to his fiancee Lisa. While filming the porno (which is about a superhero named Orgazmo and his sidekick, Choda Boy), Joe (Trey Parker) forms a friendship with his on-screen sidekick, Ben Chapleski (Dian Bachar), and earns the hatred of a group of local thugs after he and Ben take on their characters' identities as real-life superheros (using a real-life version of Orgazmo's signature weapon, the Orgazmorator) and proceed to attack the thugs. Oh, did I mention Ben INVENTED the real-life Orgazmorator (the guy's got PhDs in physics and engineering from MIT in Cambridge)?
Possibly the best aspect of this movie is Joe's unwavering devotion to his religious ideals, even though he's going against them to perform in a porno. In the entire film, he swears only a couple of times (regularly using "heck" and "gosh darn"), and won't have sex with anybody on the set (or off), going so far as to have a body double for his sex scenes! Trey Parker (the star/director/writer) and Matt Stone (who plays Dave, the lighting guy) seem to have a soft spot for Mormons. Just look at how the Mormons are treated on Parker and Stone's most famous creation, the popular cartoon South Park (especially in comparison to basically EVERY OTHER RELIGION IN EXISTENCE). Their upcoming Broadway musical The Book of Mormon seems set to further reinforce their respect of the religion.
The film is available in two versions: a cut, NC-17 version (yup, the NC-17 version is CUT), and an uncut, Unrated version. Both versions are virtually identical (the Unrated cut is over two minutes longer), and neither one is particularly "explicit" (if you can even call it that - there's barely any nudity, and the sex is far from graphic).
Rating: 80/100
