Review of Orgazmo

Orgazmo (1997)
7/10
one more time for Jesus
10 May 2005
Trey Parker also created South Park....and here endeth the review. Well seriously if you seen South Park you will know what to expect here.

OK, now for the more serious review. Trey Parker is part of a comedic movement that began in the mid to late 1990s in America. They are not so much interested in messages but the joke. Nothing is sacred, nor is anything really reviled, they are just interested in the joke.

Orgazmo is less a comedy about the porn industry but a comedy set in the film industry.

Joe Young is a much reviled person on the grounds he is a Morman Missionary. By accident he enters the porn industry as Tom Hung, aka Orgasmo, crime fighting porn stay. But can he keep this identity secret and keep true his beliefs.

Actually filmed in 1996 you see that Trey is still developing his style that doesn't quite hit the mark until the second season of South Park. Also, working alone (with a little help from his South Park co-creator) the story and ideas are leaner and more focused, with moral undiluted (South Park presents Morality as an ongoing debate...it is a Jewish thing I think).

So what is the moral? If you play a role, that role will take you over? It is more sophisticated than that, it is that you will merge with the role and end up somewhere in the middle.

Not a must see for anyone except South Park fans. However it certainly is entertaining and funny is a range of different ways.
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