When playwrights Wendy Goldman and Judy Toll adapted their hit feminist safe-sex play 'Casual Sex' for the screen, they should have observed the Hollywood dictum that it's bad luck to add a question mark to films. The film begins and ends with its two leading actresses talking directly to the audience about the joys and disappointments of sex. But the middle section, with them visiting a Club Med-style health and fitness resort to score between the sheets, is merely a lot of huffing and puffing and talk about sexual frustration with not a lot of build up to anything. It's certainly a more mature handling of a tricky subject than normal by Hollywood (put that down to having a woman director in Genevieve Robert), but is just not funny enough. The career of Lea Thompson - very up-and-down - was not helped by playing the promiscuous Stacy here. The ending was tacked on after test screenings to selected audiences. It's pure Mills and Boon and sits uneasily with what's gone before.


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