SYNOPSIS:
Suthin
is a young man who sells clothing in the Ramkhamhaeng. He
fantasizes a model actress Lammy. Suthin has his ups and downs,
his hard rock band which he started with his 3 best friends
has always kept him going on until something strange happened.
It all started when girls throughout Bangkok began falling
pregnant for no apparent reason. The entire pregnancy period
lasted only 24 hours and by the next day hundreds of babies
were born with a surprising similarity to either Suthin or
Lammy and they were growing at an exaggerated rate. Suthin
is harassed by the police and he has to go into hiding. How
will he be able to appear in a major concert, his once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity?
MOVIE REVIEW:
With an extremely in-your-face and explicit title like The
Sperm, what more do you expect? Director Taweewat Wantha's
sex comedy has so much ingredients in its broth, that what
comes out as a result is a rather messy anti-climax if you'd
anticipated just the kind of low brow, below the belt comedy
that this would have become.
Suthin
(Puttipong Sriwat) is a rock star wannabe, and in life he
has only two obsessions, that of rock music, and the hottest
model-actress in town, Lammy
(Pimpaporn Leenutapong), whom he fantasizes about almost every
moment. After a disastrous first meeting with Lammy having
won a contest, his rock band buddies decided that alcohol
isn't enough to drown his woes,
and provides him with contraband Viagra. And in a mad
twist of fate, he begins to wank and has his bodily
fluids ejaculated into a drain, which in comedic
terms, calls for an out of this world outbreak when
his mutated semen begins improbable impregnation of
almost every female in the city.
That's
when the movie couldn't decide which direction
it wanted to head out to, and began to tangent from
every conceivable genre, from teenage sex comedy to
science fiction and paying homage to monster movies,
including zombie-like children with Suthin's facial
features hunting for their common object of desire,
Lammy. It's actually so ludicrous in its premise, you
do not know whether to laugh along, or laugh at the
film. Take for instance, watching children (with
cheesy special effects of having a superimposed face)
masturbate and shooting their load as part of their
life cycle? Or for reasons, having a city attack in
the veins of Honey I Blew Up the Kid?
It's
effects-laden, though some quite rough and not of
the usual quality that a typical audience would have
normally been accustomed to. Animation was injected at
regular intervals, the bulk of which is concentrated
at the opening credits, which took 20 minutes to
appear, and is very much integrated to the development
of the plot, with some biological lessons as well). It
is reminiscent of cheesy 80s B-grade movies, and if
the purpose of The Sperm is to replicate those
moments, that without a doubt it had succeeded.
Moreover, it's always nice to have a pretty face (make
that two) in the movie, with a rather impish Pimpaporn
as Lammy the model, and Dollarous Dechapratumwan
playing the very hot-hot-hot daughter of a scientist
(Somchai Sakdikool).
Despite
its premise, The Sperm still remains rather "kid"
friendly, in that there's little to see during its purported
raunchier sequences, the best which involves a lap dance which
unfortunately wasn't given a lengthier runtime (Gee I need
a cold shower now).
MOVIE RATING:
 
Review
by Stefan Shih
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