Virtual Sexuality

If you're looking for an enjoyable couple of hours and have a loads of "suspension of disbelief" then go rent this adorable little film.

Notice I said "rent" not "buy." For all it's sweetness and lighthearted enjoyability Virtual Sexuality is ultimately too cloying to watch more than once.

However, for those of you who (like me) are completely and hopelessly smitten with Laura Fraser, there are worse ways to spend your money. She is FAR more appealing in this movie than her other big role as Lavinia in the disturbing "Titus."


Bloody Good Movie , Blokes!   April 17, 2001
 7 out of 7 found this review helpful

Virtual Sexuality tells of a teenage girl Justine who is tired of being a virgin and wants to just get the big 'it' over with. The trouble really is that no one really fits her idea of the perfect bloke. She expects far too much, and knows way too little about sex and love. Sometimes the man for us is someone right near us, a person we would never expect.

While out with Chas (the nerd boy underdog) at a Virtual Reality show, she is intrigued by a make over machine. Justine being super cute and naive enters this machine and finds it rather interesting. After looking around it a bit and getting a feel for it she starts to see how it works. You can change your features , hair color and various other things. Justine messes around with this a bit and designs the perfect man in her eyes. Blonde, blue eyes , and manhood fit for John Holmes. Chaos ensues when a accident causes the machine to malfunction and the male (Jake) image Justine created is now real!

It's basically a coming of age movie with a little Frankenstein mixed in. It has lots of nice little surprises in it , and those accents! It was refreshing to see a movie aimed at teenagers set somewhere else other than Middle America. This was surprisingly refreshing and a good visual treat.


I was entertained every second of the movie..............   September 23, 2000
 6 out of 7 found this review helpful

This is one of those sci-fi comedies that provides continuous entertainment right to the end. The sex humour was great and a good moral is taught at the end of the show. The sound track was superbly aggressive with excellent programming in the LFE area. If you're into teen comedy then this is certainly for you.


Mix of great acting turns and too-hip execution.   September 8, 2000
 5 out of 8 found this review helpful

Yet another music-video-style director at the helm of this one. Nick Hurran saturates this charming (though obviously derivative) comedy with so many oh-so-hip jump cuts, voice-overs, superimpositions and post-modern techniques that it got me cynical about the whole movie about five minutes in.

But Virtual Sexuality succeeds at least in part, due to one of the most old-fashioned of assets: Performances. Laura Fraser shines in both sensitivity and comedy as Justine (third-billed, inexplicably, though she carries the film), the lonely and frustrated teen desperate for romance. Fraser's incredibly expressive performance is what elevates his movie. In the quieter moments, when Hurran thankfully reins in his hyperactive directorial hand, the shifts in emotion in Justine's face are marvellous -- when Justine is conflicted about having to destroy the dream man she herself created, or when she wants to apologize to Chas (Luke DeLacey, adequate in the usual nice-geek role) for having ripped into him earlier, it's a real moment of heart. And Fraser is nicely balanced by the great comic timing of hunk Rupert Penry-Jones, whose performance as woman-in-man's-body Jake is wonderful (watch his postures as he moseys around Chas' room).

Hurran's heavyhanded music-video techniques, gross overuse of music (including that godawful cover of Labelle's "Lady Marmalade" by, if I heard correctly, All Saints) and hipper-than-thou tone hurt this movie. But in the end, the beautiful interaction of actors saves this movie.