(Tony Danza), Angela Martello (Glenne Headly) and sister Monica (Brie Larson), sitcomish but a lot more vulgar than you’d find in any shots of “Leave It To Beaver.” Young Monica appears to like texting as much as her brother digs sexting, given only two lines in the entire movie since she’s is otherwise occupied with her iPhone. He is also ostensibly the first woman he introduces to his paisan family, a sitcomish Jon Martello, Sr. In the case of “Don Jon,” the serious relationship comes in the guise of a gum-chewing Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson), the only “dime” in the bar (meaning a woman who rates a score of 10 in body and looks), and presumably the only one who makes Jon wait for a couple of dates before giving in to their mutual electricity.
In addition to being this year’s comedy to beat, “Don Jon” is the best movie about sex addiction since Steve McQueen’s terrific “Shame,” which stars Michael Fassbender as the junkie, a more serious tale on a similar theme, specifically about a guy who has no problem getting it up in the shower and with an assortment of hotties but could be in a Viagara commercial when he begins to develop a serious relationship with a woman. Called “the Don” by his two best buddies Bobby (Rob Brown) and Danny (Jeremy Luke) because of his skills with the fair sex, he must stun girlfriends and members of the movie audience alike in declaring that he prefers porn to the real thing, on one day beating his meat a record eleven times, a feat that hardly disturbs the parish priest who regularly absolves him of his sins. Joseph Gordon-Levitt pulls off a working-class Italian accent (again, so to speak) throughout as a young man who serves as a bartender, a student in night college, and a Don Juan with an enviable array of women he picks up in crowded bars. With the able help of Lauren Zuckerman, whose rapid edit complete with collages keeps the pace furious and Thomas Koss whose lenses capture a working-class town in New Jersey and some brilliant close-ups of Gordon-Levitt, “Don Jon” should take off with audiences who appreciate the delightful vulgarity that has made current film a far cry from the days of the Hollywood censors who insisted that if a man and a woman are in bed, each must have at least one foot on the floor. All this is illustrated by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who, amazingly wrote, directed and stars in “Don Jon,” the year’s best comedy to date.
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