Satisfying but not completely orgasmic

Rating: 8/10 (5 January 2014)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's "Don Jon" is a bit self-absorbed, but it still delivers the goods as an enjoyable entertainment fare. Gordon-Levitt stars as Jon, a New Jersey Guido-like ladies' man who is addicted to pornography; but still manages to be devoted to his church & family. His friends and hooking up with the ladies also play instrumental to his life, but unfortunately Jon needs to be "born again" instead of "porn again". His pornography addiction does get out of hand; sort of speak. Jon does hook up with a sexbomb Guidoette in the voluptuous Barbara Sugarman. I guess his "searching for Sugarman" was a sweet find. Barbara is a chick-flick lover, but not the same type of "chick flicks" that Jon logs on to. Jon also befriends an older night school peer in the depressed Esther who plays vital in his development. "Don Jon" is Gordon-Levitt's baby, as he also wrote and directed the flick. His head- on direction and humorous screenplay did come with the goods, but the egoism behind most of his characters was a bit of a turn off. Gordon- Levitt's starring performance as Jon was solid but not spectacular. Scarlett Johansson was exquisite & debonair in her performance as Barbara, and Julianne Moore was great as always in her work as Esther. However, my favorite performance of "Don Jon" was of Tony Danza who was a scene-stealer as Jon's vociferous father Jon Sr. Tony showed that he was the boss in the film's family dinner scenes who Gordon-Levitt also presented them in homage to the similar themed scenes in "Saturday Night Fever". I will not reveal if "Don Jon" has a happy ending because that would be cinematically criminal. But I will reveal that you will feel most satisfied seeing this movie into its final climax. **** Good