The film’s accidental comedy exceeds its intended sexual content

Evidence

It is unfair to categorize this film as soft porn. The sex is straight, dull and noisy, but the whole is far funnier than most of the comedies on the circuit. No connoisseur of the preposterous should miss it. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 395

Categorization

• SEED: A reversal of expectations — categorizing by intent versus effect — is a move a reviewer or essayist can reuse.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 395