Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins and Josh Gad play sex addicts at different phases in their life, dealing with their addiction. Tim Robbins' son is a drug-addict who comes home stating he is clean and sober. Mark Ruffalo starts dating Gwyneth Paltrow while trying to be a sponsor to Josh Gad, a newcomer who has become friends with a female sex addict, Pink.
It's hard to tell what makes Tim Robbins and Mark Ruffalo's characters sex addicts at first. They seem more addicted to their meetings and open, talkative relationships with one another. Josh Gad's character, on the other hand, is just a normal role for that type of character to be in modern comedies. A pervert. It uncomfortably tries to make us laugh at his behavior and then condemns what it has just shown us. The film goes on to do it again later with Mark Ruffalo's character. A sex scene that shows a lot of skin in a film that says pornography is bad.
At first it's hard to tell whether scenes, outside of the meetings, are really that poorly written or just poorly improvised. We hope that maybe we'll learn something about sex addiction, since the film seems to be a big budget promotional video for 12-step programs, but we don't even get that. This lazy romantic comedy is pandering to women who already believe sex addiction is a real disease and want to sympathize with these men.
The film does do a good job at making you not hate Josh Gad's character as much towards the end, when you see he's a good guy deep down. As long as you're not a woman caught on the subway alone with him, he won't try to rape you.
This is not a funny comedy whatsoever. However Thanks for Sharing might have you laughing when the film is trying to be dramatic.
It's hard to tell what makes Tim Robbins and Mark Ruffalo's characters sex addicts at first. They seem more addicted to their meetings and open, talkative relationships with one another. Josh Gad's character, on the other hand, is just a normal role for that type of character to be in modern comedies. A pervert. It uncomfortably tries to make us laugh at his behavior and then condemns what it has just shown us. The film goes on to do it again later with Mark Ruffalo's character. A sex scene that shows a lot of skin in a film that says pornography is bad.
At first it's hard to tell whether scenes, outside of the meetings, are really that poorly written or just poorly improvised. We hope that maybe we'll learn something about sex addiction, since the film seems to be a big budget promotional video for 12-step programs, but we don't even get that. This lazy romantic comedy is pandering to women who already believe sex addiction is a real disease and want to sympathize with these men.
The film does do a good job at making you not hate Josh Gad's character as much towards the end, when you see he's a good guy deep down. As long as you're not a woman caught on the subway alone with him, he won't try to rape you.
This is not a funny comedy whatsoever. However Thanks for Sharing might have you laughing when the film is trying to be dramatic.