Antonette Saftler, Carmen Electra, David Hyde Pierce

An extraterrestrial anthropologist (David Hyde Pierce) examines the dating and mating rituals of a "typical" human in this romantic comedy. From the pick-up to the first date to meeting each other's p...( read more  read more... )arents, the scientist tries to make sense of all the hoops that a young couple (Mackenzie Astin and Carmen Electra) must jump through in order to be together. Lucy Liu co-stars.

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R, 90 min.

Directed by: Jeff Abugov

Release Date: September 3, 1999

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DVD Release Date: January 7, 2003

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  • August 20, 2007
    One of the funniest movies I have ever seen. This is great all the way through.
  • November 7, 2006
    HILARIOUSLY FANTASTIC!
  • October 29, 2006
    Ok this movie is hilarious. It's a mocumentary about the human sex life.
  • June 11, 2007
    it was like watching national geography or the animal planet, but the lead stars are homo sapiens!
    as the title describes, it is about the mating habits of the male and female human specie. the narration was really witty and made me smile a few times. it is worth watching if you...( read more) have nothing else to do.
  • November 26, 2009
    Kind of a mixed bag, some of it works and works well, but not always, and it does get a little tiresome after an hour or so. Good supporting cast.
  • September 8, 2009
    What an annoying movie!!
  • June 7, 2009
    Boa comédia. Boba, mas engraçada.

    Curiosamente, a comédia surge a partir do cruzamento entre dois genêros narrativos estranhos à comédia: o documentário zoológico-científico e o romance contemporâneo. Essa é uma bela sacada. E funciona, por assim dizer.

    Quanto ao narrador é cur...( read more)ioso como o filme, para construir o lugar de alguém que olha para o amor contemporâneo de um ponto "objetivo", tem que usar de vários recursos. O narrador acumula os papéis de a) narrador (externo a trama); b) um antropológo (especialista em analisar comportamento) c) um extraterrestre (e portanto fora do contato com os sistemas simbólicos colocados na película); d) alguém que fala através do linguajar biologizante, científico e externo típico dos documentários sobre animais da Discovery.

    É... tenho que observar que é realmente muito dificil vender a pecha da objetividade hoje em dia...

    Mesmo com essa brincadeira sobre objetividade, o olhar objetivo é tímido em apontar o lugar de subserviência da mulher no jogo. Por vezes, o reproduz. Sem falar que "escapam" aos personagens vários estereótipos condenáveis... Falando ainda do que eu não gostei, uma pequena nota: é de péssimo gosto um take onde se compara visualmente o momento da concepção com a explosão de uma bomba atômica.

    De resto consegue gerar o duplo jogo entre identificação e estranhamento a que se propõe. E gera situações bem engraçadas nesse meio tempo. Distrai bem.
  • October 28, 2008
    Original, but not revolutionary.
  • October 15, 2008
    Silly, mostly contrived concept given life by David Hyde Pierce's hilarious narration. Plays kind of like a long romantic sitcom; worth a look if you like that kind of thing.
  • July 11, 2008
    A genuinely unique, and intensely hilarious movie.

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