The trailer for The Overnight promises that it "pushes past limits other comedies have observed for years". Minor spoiler, but a lot of that is about shots of male prosthetics that last longer than the half-second at the end of Boogie Nights. So if that sort of thing weirds you out, this is probably not the movie for you, fair warning.
The boundary isn't just about depicting male nudity; it's also in the way writer/director Patrick Brice doesn't focus as much on the women in the movie. Sex comedies have pretty much always been about excuses to get the actresses naked, but we see a lot more of the guys here, albeit not in quite the way that drives audiences to Magic Mike or its upcoming sequel.

The evening starts off great, with Kurt and Charlotte (Judith Godrèche) playing the perfect hosts. So when they suggest putting the boys to bed upstairs and continuing the party with just the adults, and things quickly turn adults-only. It starts with an owner's manual DVD for a breast pump that Charlotte starred in, and quickly moves on to Kurt's paintings that show a certain Georgia O'Keefe influence, and then skinny-dipping in the pool.

That said, the movie is plenty funny. Schwartzman and Scott work great together as a comic duo. Scott, in particular, is remarkable for being one of the few comic actors who can put a certain shamelessness to use as a straight man. And if we're going to have our female lead be the one to hold the line for a bourgeois sense of morality, Schilling's work in Orange Is the New Black shows that she's just the woman for the job.
Still, like Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice before it, there's nothing really that scandalous about The Overnight. Or maybe that just means I've been hanging out with a hipper crowd than I thought.
Rating: 3 out of 5