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One-Note Joke Gone Bad
Franz Patrick - wrote on 09/06/2008
This is one of the weakest gay/lesbian films I've ever seen because it pretends to say something new about homosexual lifestyles and coming out of the closet. In reality, it's a one-note joke gone bad because it ended up being condescending and downright insulting. Sophomoric jokes are effective in some films like "Superbad" because the characters who deliver those jokes are young. Here, we see thirty- or forty-something year olds delivering those jokes as if they were funny. Not to mention some of the jokes are completely mean-spirited. Twenty minutes into the film, I wanted the characters to grow up and act their age but they ultimately did not. They are annoying, close-minded people who need to take a real good look at the world. At times, I felt like that the writers and the …
