Kinsey DVD Review (Liam Neeson) Empire Movies

KINSEY DVD REVIEW

Kinsey
(Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment)

The Movie

The Extras

Reviewed by

7/10

8/10

Liam

Let's talk about sex. Or better yet, let talk about the movie Kinsey instead.

Back in the day when nobody talked about sex, Alfred Kinsey loved to talk about it. It consumed him. Not that the guy was a pervert (as some might think) but he was obsessed with sex from a scientific point of view. What makes human beings tick sexually? Driven by this question, he set out to explore what nobody had explored before - and he paid for it. While some people loved him for letting them know that their own sexual desires were normal, others hated him for, at the time, breaking the ultimate taboo. And while Kinsey looked at what made us tick, this movie attempts to help us understand what made Alfred Kinsey tick.

This DVD is available in two versions. The first version includes only the movie and an audio commentary by director Bill Condon. The other includes a second disc full of special features.

First on the bonus disc is a feature-length extra titled The Kinsey Report: Sex on Film. This is interesting in that it documents the evolution of the film while at the same time featuring interviews with people about how they first learned about sex. It's long in that it runs over 80 minutes, but it's a great investment of time. At times, my interest in what they were discussing even surpassed my interest in the movie itself.

The next feature, titled Sex Ed. at the Kinsey Institute provides us with a brief tour with the Institute's curator as she showcases various photos and artifacts on display at The Kinsey Institue Gallery.

More special features include several deleted scenes with optional commentary, some trailers, an amusing gag reel, and an Interactive Sex Questionnaire which is a series of 45 questions about how you would react to various sexual situations. I was hoping this one would be a little more fun than it was. Instead it was a little too technical. (I really had no idea what my results meant.)

So, does Kinsey succeed as a movie? That's up in the air for me. On the one hand I enjoyed the movie, but on the other hand I felt that it didn't provide me with enough. I guess I felt in the end that I didn't know as much about the man as I would've liked. But - like sex - maybe we're not meant to understand everything.

Features
Commentary with Writer/Director Bill Condon, "The Kinsey Report: Sex on Film" Featurette, Deleted Scenes Plus Alternative Ending with Optional Commentary by Bill Condon, Gag Reel, Sex Ed at the Kinsey Institute Featurette, Interactive Sex Questionnaire, Trailers

Video
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Audio
English 5.1 DTS, English 5.1 Dolby Surround, French Dolby Surround, Spanish Dolby Surround

Subtitles
English, Spanish, Closed-Captioned

Release Date
May 17, 2005

Rating
18A

Length
118 mins.

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