It would be too easy for me to cut and paste my review of "The Sex Trip" and place it here as a review of "Sam", but since one of my adages is "don't recreate the wheel when it already exists", I'll start off my review of "Sam" with the first lines of my comments on "The Sex Trip."
"I came across this movie while searching Amazon Prime, and as I like gender switching movies like 'Switch' and 'It's a Boy Girl Thing,' I thought to give it a try.
"It is really, truly, an awful movie. The dialogue in this movie tells me that the writers think insulting people is funny; it's not. The Sex Trip's (Sam's) main characters make crude remarks to all of the other characters."
The dialogue and acting makes me hypothesize that the two writers and director of "Sam", were sitting around drunk, probably, watching "Switch", and said to themselves, "Hey, let's write a gender changing comedy and we'll get all our pals to be in the film." They even set the main character's occupation in the New York advertising industry as in "Switch."
Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney getting the gang together to put on a show and save the (whatever) this film is not.
I have seen better performances in TV insurance commercials than in "Sam." Emu is a better actor than the majority of people appearing in this film. Stacy Keach has a small role, (they said in film school that some "past-their-prime" actors will come in and do one day's work for $25,000 (1990's dollars), I guess Stacy needed to buy his daughter a new car) and it's like watching Babe Ruth opposite a Tee Ball player.
The main character is supposed to be a young (no one in this film is over 25 except for Stacy Keach and Morgan Fairchild, another past-their-prime actor in need of buying their child a new car), highly successful advertising executive, who doesn't even know what a Pavlovian Response is; something I learned about in Pysch 101 at the local community college my freshman year.
"Sam's" script is filled with cringe wrenching dialogue:
Examples:
When Sam emails his boss that his cousin Samantha will be filling in for him while he's away (right out of "Switch") the head of the firm says, "Cousin Samantha, huh. Oh well, as long as she's hot."
Needless to say, the head of the advertising firm hits on Samantha, which is, once again, right out of "Switch."
Or, when Sam's best pal is at home with his significant other and she says,
"Either Boo-Boo apologizes and gets very snuggly, very quickly, or Soo-Soo is gonna squeeze Boo-Boo's balls. And I guarantee, you're not gonna like it."
As in "The Sex Trip," the main character overreacts when experiencing a woman's menstrual period.
The head of the advertising company even uses the cliché line, "The eyes are the windows to the soul," (which didn't work when I used it on a drunk woman in a bar in 1979), when he hits on the female Sam.
The writers, like every bad writer, has the French character with two first names, in this case Jean-George. A caricature not a character. I have a lot of French relatives and none of them have two first names.
One wonders how a film like this can get made. Answer, the producer/writer/director is Nicholas Brooks, son of Mel.
I'll end my review of "Sam" as I ended my review on "The Sex Trip."
"There is nothing "new" in this film from other gender switching movies, but there are a lot "bad" elements; ie, the main character not knowing what a woman's menstrual period entails.
"Stay away; stay far, far away from this film."
"I came across this movie while searching Amazon Prime, and as I like gender switching movies like 'Switch' and 'It's a Boy Girl Thing,' I thought to give it a try.
"It is really, truly, an awful movie. The dialogue in this movie tells me that the writers think insulting people is funny; it's not. The Sex Trip's (Sam's) main characters make crude remarks to all of the other characters."
The dialogue and acting makes me hypothesize that the two writers and director of "Sam", were sitting around drunk, probably, watching "Switch", and said to themselves, "Hey, let's write a gender changing comedy and we'll get all our pals to be in the film." They even set the main character's occupation in the New York advertising industry as in "Switch."
Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney getting the gang together to put on a show and save the (whatever) this film is not.
I have seen better performances in TV insurance commercials than in "Sam." Emu is a better actor than the majority of people appearing in this film. Stacy Keach has a small role, (they said in film school that some "past-their-prime" actors will come in and do one day's work for $25,000 (1990's dollars), I guess Stacy needed to buy his daughter a new car) and it's like watching Babe Ruth opposite a Tee Ball player.
The main character is supposed to be a young (no one in this film is over 25 except for Stacy Keach and Morgan Fairchild, another past-their-prime actor in need of buying their child a new car), highly successful advertising executive, who doesn't even know what a Pavlovian Response is; something I learned about in Pysch 101 at the local community college my freshman year.
"Sam's" script is filled with cringe wrenching dialogue:
Examples:
When Sam emails his boss that his cousin Samantha will be filling in for him while he's away (right out of "Switch") the head of the firm says, "Cousin Samantha, huh. Oh well, as long as she's hot."
Needless to say, the head of the advertising firm hits on Samantha, which is, once again, right out of "Switch."
Or, when Sam's best pal is at home with his significant other and she says,
"Either Boo-Boo apologizes and gets very snuggly, very quickly, or Soo-Soo is gonna squeeze Boo-Boo's balls. And I guarantee, you're not gonna like it."
As in "The Sex Trip," the main character overreacts when experiencing a woman's menstrual period.
The head of the advertising company even uses the cliché line, "The eyes are the windows to the soul," (which didn't work when I used it on a drunk woman in a bar in 1979), when he hits on the female Sam.
The writers, like every bad writer, has the French character with two first names, in this case Jean-George. A caricature not a character. I have a lot of French relatives and none of them have two first names.
One wonders how a film like this can get made. Answer, the producer/writer/director is Nicholas Brooks, son of Mel.
I'll end my review of "Sam" as I ended my review on "The Sex Trip."
"There is nothing "new" in this film from other gender switching movies, but there are a lot "bad" elements; ie, the main character not knowing what a woman's menstrual period entails.
"Stay away; stay far, far away from this film."