I love Takeshi Kitano's movies, not every movie he does is perfect but I appreciate the amount of style and effort he puts on each film to do something very singular to his vision. And it just so happens his take on complete satire and slapstick comedy is absolutely fun, but as I said- not perfect.
Getting Any? As the title suggests is about the quest of getting laid at all costs. We follow incel-like pervert Asao (who has his room plastered filled with porn posters) who gets out on the quest to get a car in order to get a gorgeous lady to have sex with him, cause if you have the car then ladies will swarm you to have sex right? Not really. We then follow this completely despicable guy get in all sorts of trouble and mishaps on the way to his quest which is just pure fun- everything from failed bank robberies, yakuza-involvement and scientific experiments- this movie won't end in the way you think it's gonna end and that's amazing! I love that the movie has some sort of criticism on the state of entertainment as a whole, Japanese pervert culture and more- it's never obvious but sometimes it can be on-your-face which is not annoying in this case. It even spoofs a lot of western cultural stuff like movies and music which is interesting to see in itself how the western culture gets translated in a whole new cultural setting in Japan.
The comedy is top notch- one gag after the other, the comedy sometimes can hang on different Japanese cultural references that I'm not familiar with but it's fun nevertheless. The movie despite it's subject matter is filmed in a very very gorgeous way, with crisp and beautiful footage (just look at the opening scene which is just fantastic). It has some "cheaper" looking shots but it's totally appropriate considering which movie this is. The music is also fun, altering between gorgeous tracks to some fun pop music of the era to folk and enka tracks.
This all sounds very fun and it totally is the first hour or so is very engaging and offers many moments to laugh. It is in its second half when it looses a bit of its track and steam, the yakuza segment can feel a bit way too long and the last plot could've been made much more snappier! Don't get me wrong, there are still some very funny moments in the second half I just felt personally that I kind of lost the plot for a bit, until the absurd final takes place which makes up for it absolutely. The portrayal of women in this film can feel a bit weird but considering the film's subject matter and such it's a bit understandable.
Either way I think this movie is totally worth a watch, it's funny, weird, silly and so much more. You will not be disappointed by this movie- I think it's on par with Takeshi's other satire movie "Kantoku Banzai" perhaps even better? Check it out!
