Sexmission

A pinch of social satire, a pinch of crazy comedy too, but also pasteboard scenery by the ton (it seems the scenery guys watched Sesame Street for inspiration). Just the humor never seems to get through. Or else this has aged really quickly. Not a waste of time. Just too long, occasionally funny, sometimes the jokes fit and mostly it’s just a bit nothing. It hits the absolute bottom in lameness with the chase through the “skyscraper" and its finale at the underground party. Luckily it manages to push off from the bottom and the ending on the surface is outstanding. However, it needs incredible firm nerves to be able to stand the last shot that stays up there on the screen even during the credits. (05/02/2008)

Sexmission arrived in Czech cinemas before Gorbachev came to power and long before his perestroika helped loosen the cultural atmosphere here as well. The granting of permits was somewhat hesitant and with great reluctance from the state authorities, and more significant changes came only in the last two years of the regime's existence. It is now difficult to explain what a revival Sexmission represented at that time in Czech cinema. In the then-official prudery, the decent nudity of Polish beauties was a geyser of eroticism, which now seems humorous. Above all, the audience easily deciphered the film's screenplay as a parable of a real socialist dictatorship. Getting tickets for Sexmission was a big challenge in the mid-80s, and if you didn't see it, then you didn't exist. Those tempted by the title promising a spicy spectacle will be disappointed, but as a comedy, it has not lost any of its charm and can be considered a sharp satire on radical feminism. Jerzy Stuhr, in the role of a plebeian male chauvinist, gained immense popularity among the Czech audience, and the same was true in Poland. Overall impression: 90%. (17/01/2014)

This is Jerzy Stuhr's journey into the 21st century, which he ultimately did not like. This was formerly a very popular satire and is nowadays somewhat less effective, but still very entertaining. This is apparently the most popular Polish comedy in the whole of former Czechoslovakia. A future full of women, whose emancipation led to the complete elimination of men, has its own unique charm, but the question remains whether a similar scenario would have been handled in the same way a few decades later. Would it be necessary to bring about the same revolution and just furtively enjoy the benefits of living in a house with a garden? In 2042, anything will probably be possible. (01/01/2012)

I don't know what to write about this gem. It's funny, intelligently written, novel, very confidently and fearlessly directed, but the people who will appreciate Sexmission the most are those who, at the time it came out, didn't have the opportunity to watch exposed women every day on the internet and had to use their own charm to reveal the secrets of a woman's womb in an irreplaceable and more physically pleasurable reality. At the time it came out, this groundbreaking film must have been very relaxing. 75% (16/02/2014)