"What kind of car are you looking for?"
"Something I can have sex in."
"...I see."

One of the funniest movies ever made.

In the first half of this film, Kitano's approach to comedy is exactly the same as his approach to violence - completely and brilliantly understated. The latter half digresses into a parody of popular Japanese genre cinema including Samurai, Yakuza, and Kaiju films, alongside references to Hollywood films like Ghostbusters and The Fly. I personally prefer the non-stop gags in the first half but there's definitely a lot of fun to be had here.

My first exposure to Kitano as clown, and unsurprisingly, his comic sensibilities seem fairly similar to his dramatic ones- the first act especially is about as Kitano as I can imagine a comedy being. After the first act, this becomes the mess-to-end-all-messes, although despite the multi-hyphenate director's repeated denials, I do think there's a satirical angle in Getting Any's constant wallowing in the muck of pop-cultural detritus- it just doesn't always hang together, and more importantly, isn't always as funny as it's shown it could be. Still, even once the setups become more and more absurd, there's plenty of fun to be had no matter how much it drags. Getting Any?, for all of its flaws, has a lot to love- comic cleverness, deadpan violence... it's 500% Kitano!

Incredibly funny and cruel comedy about a horny adult son loser whose entire life is motivated by his desire to have sex with a woman in a car. The first 30 minutes are excruciatingly funny as the film escalates from a satire about Otaku mindset (basically proto-Incel culture from Japan in the nineties), becoming a broad and deranged parody of practically all aspects of mindless Japanese popular culture, including samurai, yakuza and finally kaiju films.

Hit and miss, like most episodic comedy sketch films are, but the hits are massive hits. This is actually the “Beat” Takeshi style that Kitano is most famous for within Japan, the nonsensical funnyman, whereas the rest of the world knows him best for his very serious cop and crime dramas (films which weren’t accepted inside Japan for several years).

A transgressive, hostile and galaxy-brained comedy masterpiece, way way better than I was led to believe.

Kitano has the greatest sense of humor in the world.

Ridiculous and pointless and absolutely hilarious I fell in love with it from the first few scenes. Kitano's face when he's trying hard not to laugh is the fucking best. And all the homages to other films - Getting Any? is truly a gem.

"The flyman is an intelligent mammal. Don’t catch him, help him!"

or

"This isn't Akira Kurosawa's 'The Siege of Moscow'!"

Takeshi Kitano does a nearly two hour Zucker-style gag a minute goof fest, dumb and horny and lazy and formless and occasionally kinda mean and absolutely galaxy-brained. Somehow the awkward joke killing anti-rhythm that Kitano deploys just makes everything a hundred times funnier, and despite the fact that these types of films REALLY shouldn't cross the 90 minute mark, somehow the last third, featuring some sort of Invisible Man/Ghostbusters/Cronenberg/Kaiju hybrid parody, is maybe the funniest thing I've ever seen...

Can't believe Kitano made a movie based on the coomer meme.

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made me lol! and also, this poster is really good

what if we had sex in a car........and i was a giant fly man........

This starts kinda slow, very goofy gags but kinda just chuckle-worthy for a bit. Eventually the absurdity of the escalating situations did produce a kind of hysteria in me, and yes laughter. The last third of the movie is bursting with bizarre and memorable scenes.

The one Kitano I did not go back and upgrade to Blu ray...

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Primeiro hora do filme é muito boa, me lembrou até Monty Python como se cada 5/10 minutinhos fosse uma esquete e elas se conectassem no fim.
Na segunda fica esquisita, como o significado do que é humor para japonês.

For such a bonkers film, Sean Redmond provides the most dry, uninterested commentary track I've ever heard!

The Japanese Kentucky Fried Movie. What a great, goofy way to spend an evening.

Most Kitano movies, no matter how brutal or unnerving, feel like he forgot to add the canned laughter in editing. ‘Getting Any?’ is the one that would need it the least. You’ll be laughing your ass off anyway.

Especially in the first half, where we finally get to see the deadpan humor Kitano’s Beat Takeshi persona is renowned for in Japan - even though Kitano himself is nowhere to be seen. When it pivots to movie parodies in the second part it kind of falls flat, but that finale more than makes up for it. You’ve never seen toilet humor like this.

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