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| ANOTHER GAY MOVIE 2006 - USA - 94 mins - Feature, Color Director - Todd Stephens |
| MPAA Rating - R Genre / Type - Comedy, Gay & Lesbian Films, Parody/Spoof Flags - Nudity, Strong Sexual Content, Adult Humor Adult Situations, Profanity Themes - Questioning Sexuality Tones - Sexual, Raunchy, Silly, Frantic, Goofy Produced By - Luna Pictures/Piloton Entertainment, Velvet Films Release - July 28, 2006 (USA-Limited) DVD Street Date - Nov 13, 2006 Studio - TLA Releasing Cast Michael Carbonaro -- Andy Wilson Jonathan Chase -- Jarod Jonah Blechman -- Nico Mitch Morris -- Griff Scott Thompson -- Mr. Wilson Graham Norton -- Mr. Puckov Ashlie Atkinson -- Muffler Stephanie McVay -- Bonnie Lypsinka -- Mrs. Wilson Richard Hatch James Getzlaff -- Beau Darryl Stephens -- Angel |
| Plot Synopsis The standard "four horny guys" conceit of the typical teen comedy gets a change-up in this independent sex farce. Jarod (Jonathan Chase), Griff (Mitch Morris), Nico (Jonah Blechman), and Andy (Michael Carbonaro) are four close friends who are soon to graduate from high school, and at the end of the summer they'll go their separate ways as they go away to college. All four of them have something else in common - they're virgins, and have made a pledge to one another to finally go all the way by Labor Day. Oh, did we mention these guys all happen to be gay? Griff devotes nearly every waking hour to improving his butt, Nico is the stereotypical flaming movie buff, Jarod is a jock worried about the size of his sporting equipment, and Andy has a bad habit of swiping vegetables from his mom's garden for purposes other than making a salad. With the help of their lesbian pal Muffler (Ashlie Atkinson), the guys go on the prowl looking for Mr. Right (or Mr. Right Now), with plenty of sexy, strange, and just plain gross hi-jinks along the way. Another Gay Movie includes cameo appearances from Scott Thompson, Graham Norton, Richard Hatch, and John Epperson (aka Lypsinka). Reviews Michael Hardy Boston Globe Published: 09/01/2006 Writer -director Todd Stephens's ``Another Gay Movie" concerns the sexual misadventures of four fresh-faced teenagers dead set on losing their virginity before going to college. Toilet humor abounds as the friends -- Gay Jock, Gay Nerd, Gay Sensitive Guy, and Gay Really Horny Guy -- try every trick in their gay playbook to get Mr. Right into the sack. That's right, it's a queer ``American Pie." Like 2004's ``HellBent," which was billed as the first-ever gay slasher movie, ``Another Gay Movie" seems to demand sympathy for being marketed to gays, as if courting that market sets the film on a moral, taboo-busting high ground. That argument might hold water if the movie weren't a nearly scene-by-scene remake of the Weitz brothers' breakout raunchfest, complete with an embarrassing dad, a webcam incident, and, standing in for the iconic pie, a prominently featured quiche. It's hard to buck convention when you're slavishly following it. OK, so ``Another Gay Movie" won't gladden the hearts at GLAAD. Is it at least funny? If you giggle at fart jokes, guffaw at the mention of lubricant, and go into hysterics when you see a lesbian -- or if you're the world's biggest fan of original ``Survivor" winner Richard Hatch, who makes a brief appearance -- you might enjoy it. If you haven't found potty humor funny since junior high, and have worked hard to avoid the whole ``Survivor" thing, you'll be running for the aisles within the first five minutes. You get the impression that the cast and crew of ``Another Gay Movie" could have made a genuinely funny film if they weren't obsessed with out-grossing the already gross ``American Pie." The young actors play humiliating scenes with a commendable lack of self-consciousness, and you end up rooting for them to crawl their way out of this movie and into the artificial daylight of prime - time television. So when you're in front of the theater marquee this weekend, don't give in to the advertising. Say it with me: ``Another gay movie, please." Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly EW.com Posted Aug 09, 2006 Rating: B It's got four horny high school seniors who make a pact to lose their virginity. It's got a video-voyeur scene and a quiche masturbation scene (don't ask). It's got gerbil jokes, S&M jokes, a take-what-little-is-left-of-my-dignity cameo by Richard Hatch, and enough sploshing bodily fluids to gross out the most jaded teen-comedy enthusiast. What Another Gay Movie doesn't have is a message, and that, it turns out, is a good thing. I mean, really, when was the last time you saw a gay movie that was liberated from all socially redeeming value? With its punky-pink tinsel-and-Colorforms decor, its stylized acting that turns teen stereotypes into camp and then back again, Another Gay Movie is American Pie restaged as a debauched queer in-joke. The movie isn't a parody, exactly. It's clear that the director, Todd Stephens (Edge of Seventeen), grew up watching mainstream teen flicks, and that he identified with them, too. He stages Another Gay Movie in a style of low-budget fluorescent overkill, but a handful of the gags are low-down funny, and I got caught up in the freshness of Stephens' transmutation of trashy straight youth culture into trashy gay youth culture. His heroes, like the sprightly geek Griff (Mitch Morris) and the Liza-eyed, cockatoo-haired club-kid mama's boy Nico (Jonah Blechman), have no angst about being gay, but they vent their insecurity by coming on as sexual ''tops''; they have to - how can I say this? - embrace their inner bottom. Maybe that is a message, but a nicely unredeeming one. Awards Film Presented -- 2006 Tribeca Film Festival |
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