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Now This Is How You Make A Friggin' Ensemble Comedy

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (26)

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Garry Marshall, take some fucking lessons.

Here’s the trailer for Elektra Luxx, one of the odder titles of late. It’s directed by Sebastian Gutierrez, who does not have a great filmography (it includes Rise: Blood Hunter), but give it a moment of your time. For three reasons:

1) The premise is fairly clever:

Recently retired from the adult film industry, superstar Elektra Luxx (Carla Gugino) is pregnant with the child of late rock star Nick Chapel. She is trying to make ends meet by teaching a community college sex education class aimed at housewives when a figure from her past, flight attendant Cora (Marley Shelton), approaches her with a proposition. In exchange for the (stolen) lyrics to Nick Chapel’s last record, all of which is about Elektra, Cora needs Elektra to seduce her fiancee. Elektra reluctantly agrees to do this favor, setting in motion a series of hilarious events which will see her come face to face with detectives, sex bloggers, emotionally unstable neighbors and the Virgin Mary herself as she wrestles with the prospect of motherhood and tries to become a person of substance.

2) The cast is fucking aces: Carla Gugino (Gutierrez’s wife in real life), Marley Shelton, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Malin Ackerman, Adrianne Palicki, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Vincent Kartheiser, and Seth fuckin’ Bullock himself, Timothy Olyphant. Now that is an ensemble cast, filled with copious talent and eye candy for all types.

3) The trailer is just plain fun:


Elektra Luxx
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It even does the nerd-in-his-basement thing well, but then again, it’s Joseph Gordon Levitt. The man can do anything well. Also, was that Josh Brolin in the photograph of the deceased rockstar?









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Comments

I'm a sucker for anything JGL so I'll definitely be watching, but there was a real lack of Kartheiser in that trailer.

Posted by: canaux at February 1, 2011 9:16 AM

Gugino as ex-pornstar, Gugino's breasts, JGL; you're right, this IS how you make a friggin' ensemble comedy.

Posted by: zeke the pig at February 1, 2011 9:18 AM

I'm a sucker for anything JGL so I'll definitely be watching, but there was a real lack of Kartheiser in that trailer.

Posted by: canaux at February 1, 2011 9:30 AM

So nice I did it twice.

Posted by: canaux at February 1, 2011 9:31 AM

See it was all good. Pretty talented people getting out of their clothes and tossing witty banter back and forth. Porn stars represented as human beings who sometimes make bad choices and end up in strange places in their careers like a lot of other professions. Some subtle and not so subtle comedy, a great mix.

But then the blogger in the basement joke at the end. The same tired mom yelling down the stairs joke that was used in Wayne's World. Then in Men in Black II. Then in Die Harder. Come on writers let's try a little harder. No, harder than that. Let's at least use a joke where a blogger or at the very least a brilliant commenter is at work burning company time instead of the in the basement joke.

Posted by: Mrcreosote at February 1, 2011 9:45 AM

Yeah, JGL and Guginers make anything interesting.

Posted by: sars at February 1, 2011 9:52 AM

The hair and make-up people did a great job at taking one of the sexiest women on the planet and making her look like a generic porn star.
Did I say great? Sorry, I meant fuck you to hell.

Posted by: The Mutt at February 1, 2011 10:02 AM

Haven't I already seen this movie and wasn't it called "Women in Trouble?" It is even on Netflix watch instant.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1247704/

It has a sex act in it involving a dog.

Posted by: MiniTs at February 1, 2011 10:15 AM

Marley Shelton was freaking awful in that show The Eleventh Hour, so I'm not wild about her presence anywhere else. But Gugino can make me ignore almost anything.

Posted by: Todd at February 1, 2011 10:25 AM

Did Carla Gugino get paid for this? Life is so unfair. Do they realize I would have paid THEM for the role?

Posted by: PaddyDog at February 1, 2011 10:29 AM

Being curious, I decided to get my detective on. From only viewing the trailers, it looks like Elektra Luxx is an offshoot of the previously mentioned film Women in Trouble. Gugino, Shelton, Chriqui (and what appears to be one second of JGL), are all in it, as well as Brolin and many more actors.

I'm guessing it's a companion piece. Makes me wish I had heard of the other one sooner, because this movie looks like a blast.

Here's the YouTube trailer for Women in Trouble: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGDL3BMlq9I&feature=fvst

Posted by: Kaleena at February 1, 2011 10:35 AM

OK, so "Women in Trouble" has the same plot, same character names, and same actors, and huh?

Posted by: BWeaves at February 1, 2011 11:22 AM

Excellent sleuthing Kaleena! I knew it all sound familiar.

Posted by: MiniTs at February 1, 2011 11:27 AM

As I understand it, there is actually a planeed trilogy involving these characters (and not like a Lucasian-I-totally-planned-the-prequels plan, but one actually written and developed). I suppose if this film does well enough (and if it is half as good as Women In Trouble, it better), then Gutierrez will have the time to finish the last one.

Seriously, that movie was great. Even the daughter character (played by the director's daughter, no less) was pretty awesome, rather than a load like you would think.

On another note, between being hooked up with Carla "Not even a missing hand could ruin my nude scene" Gugino and making films like this, I kinda want to be Sebatien Gutierrez when I grow up. Or kill him and take his place. I'm fine with both.

Posted by: Vermillion at February 1, 2011 12:13 PM

I'm down with anything that the Olyphant is in. Mmmm.

Posted by: Jadine at February 1, 2011 12:24 PM

Sex scenes between Olyphant and Gugino?

This movie could be ten kinds of shit and I'd still rape a kitten to see it.

I think that says it all.

Posted by: Vonnegut Slut at February 1, 2011 12:34 PM

I was one of the unfortunates who had to sit through "Women in Trouble." It made "Valentine's Day" look like "The Godfather."

Posted by: DontWorryGarry at February 1, 2011 12:39 PM

Seriously. Carla, listen, we need to talk.

You're fucking hot. I'm just going to start by putting that out there, in the open, for all to see. You? Are fucking hot. And I dont just mean fucking hot, I mean you are FUCKING. HOT.

And you know? I dont know how I'm so sure, but you'd be incredible in bed. You would. Look at you! Every second that ticks by you get sexier and cooler and make me want to be/do you in more and more ways.
It's not fair.

And now, you're appearing in a film with Timothy Olyphant? Who is literally your male counterpart? Sexier by the second, probably incredible in bed, fucking hot and FUCKING hot.

In this film you play an EX PORN STAR(I mean are you serious?).
I know what you're thinking; What's the point of this rambling?

Well the point is this;

The only way to make up for being so god damned hot ALL THE FUCKING TIME, is to do one thing for me...

If there is anything, any BLIP of conciousness we could conceivably call God (we KNOW Godtopus exists)out there in the cold, dark,yet still frequently visually arresting vastness of space.
If you have any human decency in you, Carla...any at all...if you're the good, decent, cool, funny person I imagine you to be in real life?


Carla, if any of that is true?

You will fuck Timothy Olyphant on camera.


Posted by: Nadine at February 1, 2011 12:42 PM

You had me at JGL. Oh and Olyphant making the sexy eyes and saying "I don't have to." Rawr.

Also, I believe Elektra Luxx is a sequel to Women in Trouble

Posted by: Even Stevens at February 1, 2011 1:03 PM

and Kaleena already mentioned that so good job on not reading all the posts, Stevens

Posted by: Even Stevens at February 1, 2011 1:04 PM

What Nadine and Vonnegut Slut said.

Hot, hot Olyphant and hot, hot Carla Gugino getting it on? Not even a team of wild horses could tear me away from that.

I don't care if there's some fucking "Mom yelling in the basement at JGL" cliched nonsense. I don't care if every line of dialogue and every plot point is shitballs retarded. Who gives a flipping fuck? WHO NEEDS PLOT AND WORDS??? (Gugino + Olyphant) - clothes = WIN.

Posted by: MM at February 1, 2011 2:17 PM

JGL, Olyphant, Gugino's boobs. I'm in.

Posted by: Frankie Ballz at February 1, 2011 2:52 PM

So Women in Trouble is actually good?

Netflix member critics told me otherwise.

But JGL!

Posted by: grace b at February 1, 2011 3:08 PM

Seriously MM. Seriously. Jenna Elfman could pop up in this, AS DHARMA, and I'd still see it ten times over if Olyphant and Gugino do some serious, dirty, sweaty, steamy, hot, bruised-in-the-morning, panties and boxers flung over ceiling fans, the possibility of missing teeth or broken bones, illegal in 19 states bona fide FUCKIN'.

On Camera. If that shit happens off screen I AM COMING TO YOUR HOUSES AND BRINGING HELL WITH ME.

Posted by: Nadine at February 1, 2011 3:21 PM

JGL is growing on me. I was not a fan- I really hated Brick- and then his terrible appearance on SNL had just about cemented it. But then I watched Inception and I've given him a second chance to impress me.

Now, Mrcreosote, whose name makes me want to vomit by the way, I totally enjoyed the ending bit with his mom yelling at him. Funny is still funny. Also, you forgot that they pull that gag weekly on The Big Bang Theroy.

Posted by: EJ at February 2, 2011 10:08 AM

When I read the words "Elektra Luxx" in the sub-heading to this article my first thought was "vacuum cleaner"; my second thought was "porn star name".

My Mum used to have an Electrolux vacuum cleaner in the 70s. Their slogan at the time was, "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux". I bet Carla Gugino could...

...make up your own punchline. I'm busy right now.

Posted by: Ballymena Bob at February 2, 2011 12:11 PM