Sex Mission

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)

Jerzy Stuhrs Reise ins 21. Jahrhundert, wo es ihm letztlich nicht gefallen hat. Früher eine sehr populäre Satire, heute etwas weniger schlagkräftig, aber immer noch sehr unterhaltsam. Eine Zukunft voller Frauen, deren Emanzipation zur vollständigen Eliminierung der Männer geführt hat, hat ihren ganz eigenen Reiz, aber es bleibt die Frage, ob ein ähnliches Szenario ein paar Jahrzehnte später genauso gehandhabt worden wäre. Wäre es notwendig, dieselbe Revolution herbeizuführen und einfach heimlich die Vorteile des Wohnens in einem Haus mit Garten zu genießen? Im Jahr 2042 wird wahrscheinlich alles möglich sein. (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)