missraze And by that I do not mean the main character in this movie who does absurd things to get laid. It's the reviewers here that are completely stupid. Why are they making this a racial thing saying "if you like Japanese culture." Who are these asshats who are so busy feeling pretentious for sitting through a vintage and indie film made in Japan, that they totally missed the quite obvious point? It is a brilliant satire and reading the reviews and seeing how that flew over their heads almost repulses me!? This film is simply about "MEN" who think their cars impress women! How dare these reviewers think that Japanese people aren't human and also don't go through this sort of peer pressure! That this film is simply mocking "Japanese pop culture." I'm confused! This film was made in 1994! Now unless the director literally said "I made this film to mock Japanese pop culture," and you can prove that with a link to a credible source, I don't get why people are saying this!One guy even said this movie mocks Zatoichi! Zatoichi was made almost 10 years after this film so HOW IS THIS FILM MOCKING ZATOICHI?! Shut up you ignorant weaboo!!? He just wants to brag that he has seen Zatoichi so he mentioned it!! And other people who do not know better themselves will find his idiotic review worthy.Now, on to why I love and totally understand this film and do NOT see this as merely a "Japanese movie." One scene shows the main actor conspiring a plan to get sex by having a first class plane ticket. The director shows us his fantasies and how he goes after the ridiculous thing. He says to himself, "I need money. I can rob a bank. I need a gun to rob a bank." And I'm totally in tune with this guy at this point so I tell myself as a joke (the 1st time I have seen the movie): "Well, I guess he's going to have to become a policeman so he can get a gun, so he can rob a bank." And what does this guy do? Well I can't say much but he goes through a ridiculous number of attempts to get a gun! It is hilarious and sometimes he is too stupid even for me but I never blame the movie, I see this as a brutal relentless mockery of the mentality of desperate, insecure men who hide behind their materials to get women. And I loved this movie inside and out.I think this movie needs to be redone and rebooted as an almost exact remake. With famous actors of today in Japan. Modern Japanese movies with attractive Japanese cast has no problem appealing to the modern and young crowd in and out of Japan, the type of people who have to see this movie the most. Stop hiding behind your materials, you look silly. And stop getting yourself into a chain of unnecessary situations to impress other people. This movie for me is a fine balance of wit and silliness while never straying from its purpose. I mean it's not about the silliness of each scene, it's about WHY is he doing it. He messed up a bigtime movie he got a role in JUST so he can be an actor JUST so he can meet groupies JUST so he can get laid. HE'S ridiculous but the MOVIE is spot on with making fun of men like this. This movie is an unsung answer to life's dumbest problems like materialism and getting sex. It shouldn't be looked at as simply Japanese quirkiness. This movie is similar to Britain's "The Inbetweeners." Which is also not about being British. It's about being a desperate teenage boy, simple. And America could never do this properly. It would be all slapstick and no wit and obviously it is another American who made the ignorant racial review about this movie! Ha.

Simon Booth It sometimes comes as a surprise to people when they learn that Takeshi Kitano is best known in Japan as a comedian. The man with the most deadpan expression ever is mainly known for his gangster movies, and for the sometimes shocking portrayal of violence they contain. I'm surprised that people are surprised though, because even his most hardboiled gangster movies contain a strain of deadpan absurdist humour that is at least as characteristic of his films as the violence. Maybe a lot of people simply miss the humour - Americans aren't best known for their appreciation of subtle comedy after all Watching GETTING ANY? it's hard to imagine anybody missing the fact it is a comedy though, as it is anything but subtle. Actually maybe that's not true - the humour is still often times subtle, but the movie as a whole is unmissably surreal and absurd.The premise is simple. A not too bright loser has but one thing on his mind - getting laid. He really hasn't got much of a clue how one goes about this, though, and the movie largely concerns his increasingly stupid schemes to get some. First on the list... get a car. Should be simple enough, right? Not for this guy His plans get more and more ludicrous as the movie progresses, and lead him into some ridiculous and sometimes hilarious situations.This is without a doubt the strangest movie Kitano has done, and it's as wild and inventive as any movie that springs to mind except maybe the odd Jeff Lau or Stephen Chiau film. The movie plays like a strung together sequence of sketches parodying numerous movies and cultural elements, rather like a Japanese Monty Python film. Like Monty Python, it's clear that there's a keen intelligence behind all the stupidity.The movie is not without flaws, unfortunately - chief of which is that it loses focus for a long time around the half way mark. Our hero gets himself into a couple of dire situations and for some time the whole purpose of his adventure (getting some) is forgotten. It's still funny and ridiculous, but dilutes the experience somewhat and drags on a little too long. It perhaps becomes a little too absurd for its own good in the second half, coming too close to simply being random.GETTING ANY? is a fairly lightweight contribution to Kitano's resume, but one so totally opposed to his unique style of film-making shown in films like SONATINE and HANA-BI that it simply had to be made. Kitano is far more than a one trick pony, even though it's mainly for one trick that he's known in the west. Unfortunately, GETTING ANY is probably altogether too strange to have widespread appeal in the US, and won't do much to broaden peoples' perception of him.

Robot Rancher Not a bad film, but not a good one either. Kitano's usual crisp writing style is all together missing in this film which has a rather basic plot (a pathetic middle-aged man who's goal in life is to one day have sex in a car), but at the same time is mired by the off the wall misadventures of the main character Asao. In fact, Asao's adventures become so off the wall that by the end of the film, I completely lost track of how he wound up in his final state (or maybe by the end of the film I just didnt care anymore to think about it). What makes the off the wall plot even worse is the smattering of off the wall characters to go with it (like the pink nighty wearing Yakuza Boss, the old man who steals Asao's "bomb cake", and the dying Yakuza gangster who keeps popping up every so often to give Asao a helping hand).However, despite its shortcomings, the movie did have its moments. Kitano's scientist character was rather amusing, and it was a fresh change to see him playing a character that didnt shoot anyone in the face (its kinda like seeing Clint Eastwood in a comedy). Also the film did some pretty good lampooning on popular Japanese film genres (such as the Yakuza Film, and the Giant Monster Movie).In conclusion, Minna yatteruka was an o.k. comedy, but thats about it. It lacked the subtle humor found in Kitano's other films like Kikujiro which I found more enjoyable. Due to that, I would have to give this film a 6 and a word of advice to the film maker: There is such a thing as having too much "stool" in a movie.

niz This is a truly funny film that crosses all boundaries... despite not having English subtitles I was totally gripped by the insanity of the images on display, and Takeshi Kitano's brilliant deadpan performance. It's incredible how such a simplistic tale of a man stumbling from one bizarre situation to another, with little or no rhyme or reason, can be so laugh-out-loud funny.