"The Opposite of Sex" tells a metalinguistic story in which a half-sister comes to a man's life and turns everything upside down. That happens because the girl is completely insane, with all the bad adjectives you can imagine, so she does lots of mean stuff that make you frizz your hair. The story is, for what it matters, a little confusing and implausible, since sexuality is dealt with a little incongruence-- for some point, I believed the movie was trying to show there would be an ex-gay person. What I liked about it is that the movie doesn't have a main character; they're all important to the story-telling and each one with its own singularity. Jason and Lucia are two great characters portrayed by two great actors, and sometimes Lucia appears to be the most reasonable one, given that all the others are dumb most of the time. I just don't give it a better rating because the story is too crazy for my taste, but it entertains for some while, with an original subject, for sure.

I selected this movie on an impulse and ended up loving every bit of it. It isn't as black a comedy as most people profess, you laugh at some very witty scenes and a few conversations are very poignant and insightful. Note these bits: Lucia and Bill at the hotel in LA when they have a conversation about relationships, Matt and Bill at the log cabin in Canada and lastly, when Dedee delivers the last voice-over. I will remember this movie for quite some time. We have a trash-talking southerner: Christina Ricci (in one of her better roles) who takes some pretty illogical decisions in life and affects so many lives around her. Martin Donovan shines as her half-brother, seemingly very pacified and unnerved about things in life (a doormat personality, perhaps?). Watch out for Lisa Kudrow: she steals the show with her expressions and acting.

The movie promises to offend you, and I promise you that it fulfills it's promise. The problem is, in the end it retracts most of what it said and makes most of the feelings of offense go away, except for a group of people who don't even largely play in the movie (but Don Roos apparently wished to alienate).From the start of the movie, we are introduced to Dede Truitt, who is the narrator but not, surprisingly, the lead character. A white trash brat from Louisiana, she promises us that she doesn't have a heart of gold and doesn't grow one later.Dede hates her stepfather for reasons we're never told, and hates her mother for being "the one that killed" her father. Although I was told by others her family life was suggestive of abuse, to me, it came off as her being shallow and angry at the loss of her birth father and taking it out on the people around her. She ruins a funeral for her step father and runs away to live with her half-brother (a "real live homo") across the nation.Bill, her brother and the real main character of this movie, and his live-in lover Matt have hit a rough patch in their lives. Bill is a sweet, sensitive guy mourning the death of his, for all intents and purposes, husband. Tom "the dead guy" left Bill with quite a bit of money, but no direction. Because of this, Bill is cruising through life, allowing the slander from his students and typical bumps of life to not phase him in the least.Things for these two characters began to circle around the next plot point: Dede seduces kind hearted Matt and makes him believe he's the father of her baby.Dede lies and manipulates her way through big hearts and little minds, finding a rival only in the intellectual but bitter Lucia (played convincingly by Lisa Kudrow). Matt shows no true character development nor weight as the movie carries on. In fact, when his lover-on-the-side Jason enters the picture, Matt becomes nothing more than a shallow husk of what could have been a good character.Johnny Galecki fails at Jason's first big scene, not quite hitting the emotional depth he needed to convey a hopeless lover at a loss. However, by the end of the film, he picks up some steam and manages to make Jason come across a lovable guy who just wants to find his little piece of happiness. Unfortunately, though, Jason never learns a lesson. He enters the movie lying about Bill molesting him as a student, and leaves the movie lying about the Christian Coalition paying him to do so. Bill and Lucia are the true redeeming characters of this film, as they grow to finally allow emotions back into their lives and receive the happy ending they suffered to get.What interests me is that the movie appears to be teaching about the good in all people, and tries to put a positive spin on even the most horrible of characters. An interestingly hypocritical pivot for a cynical satire of "real life". Not a very satisfying experience, in my opinion.

You may think I'm some hysterical fan who just saw the movie and picked 10/10 since I couldn't be bothered evaluating the film first but that is not the case. I have tried to find fault with this film but they're really isn't much to go on. All in all the film is perfect; the elevator music-type score is perfect, the acting unnaturally good and the plot, though at times complicated, very smart and always interesting.16 year old Dedee Truit (Christina Ricci) leaves her her hometown of Louisina after her step-father dies to live with her gay half-brother, Bill (Martin Donavan). Whilst there, she convinces his live-in boyfriend Matt (Ivan Sergei) that he's straight. The two run away together along with 10,000 and in turn set of a chain of events that Bill could certainly do without.Don't get me wrong, this is only stage one of the plot and it all develops hilariously thanks to Don Roo's brilliant script. Of course that wouldn't mean much if the acting wasn't worth it's material, but as mentioned before, it most certainly is. Considered by many as Ricci's adult breakout role, it's here that the then 19 year old shows us what she's made of. Her monotone voice is perfect for the characters dead-pan narration whilst the scene in which she's giving birth is, though a bit hard to watch, always rewarding during every sitting.Kudrow as a stick-up-her-ass spoilsport scores some serious points too. After "Romy and Michelle" and "Friends" it's nice to know that she can reach a little deeper and when she gets a genuinely happy ending, you can't help but feel touched. The rest of the cast are excellent too and all deserve praises.So if you look at a trailer for this or something and think it's just some slick, sleazy sex-fest, I urge you to reconsider. Chances are, you won't regret it.