Review of For a Good Time, Call... (2012) by Jason C — 16 May 2013

I adored For A Good Time, Call... This is the most innocent R-rated movie you're going to find. It's cute. There is profanity and sexuality (look at the movie title and watch the trailers), but it focuses on two friends who put their dislike for each other aside and become room mates and then partners in a phone sex operation.

It has a lot of things I like in a movie like this: It's funny, has witty and entertaining dialogue with the actors who can deliver their lines very well and there really are no villains. The small twists work well and keep the movie flowing well, even though their not surprising. It's not crass, which I thought it could easily have been.

For A Good Time, Call... is all this despite a huge problem. The lead actresses, Ari Graynor and Lauren Miller, have absolutely no chemistry. None. They're both good and, more importantly in a movie like this: entertaining, actresses, but they don't do well together. It makes the ending a little awkward, but they were able to work around that with their acting. And if Ari Graynor isn't seen as a wonderful lead actress by now, she never will. The appearances of funnymen like Kevin Smith and Seth Rogen helped make For A Good Time, Call... that much better.

Lauren Miller was one of writers, along with newcomer Katie Anne Naylon, and I like what they did. I'd expect them to progress in their next films, and I see them doing more together, if not. Also new to feature films, director Jamie Travis also showed the ability to put a decent film together.

For A Good Time, Call... is worth watching. It'll be on DVD/BRD soon. It's definitely worth renting.