Blu-ray Review – Joy of Sex

"The Joy of Sex" was released in 1972, offering an illustrated manual for carnal activities to help illuminate taboo subjects. It was a popular sex education tool and literary event, billed as a "gourmet guide to love making." It wasn't built for a screen adaptation, but Hollywood had to try, especially during the post-"Porky's" rush of teen horndog cinema, attempting to bend the material into an R-rated comedy for adolescent audiences. 1984's "Joy of Sex" brings in director Martha Coolidge (fresh off 1983's "Valley Girl") to help add some dimension to inherently flat material, but there's not much she can do with the project, which is a lifeless offering of juvenile antics and concerns, at times barely even making sense. "Joy of Sex" is a DOA offering of shenanigans, and while a bit of effort is made to disrupt the usual in this type of entertainment, it's not enough to support a mess of a movie. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com