

How hot is the sex and how much sex is there? The last 20 minutes drag on, leaving ample time to make out in the back row.Ģ. The first two-thirds of the movie are fun, and stylish and it's entertaining to watch the classic boy-meets-girl setup interlace with the more adult aspects of this particular story (boy meets girl, girl falls for boy, boy asks girl to sign a 50-page sex contract). Banks) and the cast embrace the campiness of the source material, delivering lines like "if you were mine, you wouldn't sit for a week," with just the right amount of wink-wink. This isn't a jab since the screenwriter (Kelly Marcel, Saving Mr. The very act of seeing an "erotic film" with your significant other may be enough to spark that sex drive, and even if your libidos aren't tickled, your funny bones will be. Should you go see Fifty Shades with your significant other on V-Day?Ī pressing matter, since Hallmark's favourite holiday is almost upon us, and since many couples will consider seeing Fifty Shades as a form of Valentine's Viagra.

Instead, here are five questions for Fifty Shades fans (and everyone else who is secretly dying to see this movie).ġ. In light of this reality, a traditional evaluation seems pointless and so, to borrow a phrase from back before Dakota Johnson was even a twinkle in Don Johnson's linen pants – let's not and say we did. Will this or won't this be an Oscar contender is not a question people will ask themselves as they slink into the theatre hoping to avoid colleagues and relatives and anyone else with whom future eye contact could be required. Not that the Fifty Shades of Grey movie was ever going to be a masterpiece. James's erotica-for-housewives sensation would be made into a movie, excitement has been building: every casting decision met with moans, every preview picked over like a Playboy in a prison washroom, which is – of course – the trouble with excessive anticipation, both in sex and in cinema: Get too worked up beforehand and the main event rarely measures up.

From the moment it was announced that E.L. Putting aside the actual movie for a moment, the team that brought Fifty Shades of Grey to the screen knows a lot about foreplay.
