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Another Gay Movie / USA / 2006

My generation will forever be identified with the American Pie franchise, something that makes me continuously ashamed. Where other generations can pride themselves on The Best Years of Our Lives or Easy Rider, Wall Street or Goodfellas, we have a seemingly endless multi-million-dollar series that protracts the decades-long stereotype of apathetic, over-sexed teens. And while Adam Herz’s franchise, founded on the bizarre notions of pastry lust and Band Camp self-abuse, has its moments—Eugene Levy is endlessly funny—the whole idea is embarrassingly preposterous.

Written and directed by Todd Stephens, Another Gay Movie is his take on the American Pie series. It’s also very, very gay, which is apparently all you need nowadays to instigate a cult following. For 92 minutes we’re subjected to sight gags involving fake genitalia, sex toys, lubrication, BDSM, ejaculate, masturbation, lesbianism, Richard Hatch’s unpixilated crotch, and lots of simulated sex, including one scene with a quiche. The dialogue is unrelentingly flat, and the filmmakers go overboard in creating a cinematic collage of naked asses. (The overly stereotypical characters, I assume, were written as such to make a valid point. I’m still waiting on what that point is.)

Still, Another Gay Movie is distastefully hilarious. The main characters all graduate from San Torum High School (note the fading social reference) and make a pact; what follows are a half-dozen desperate, bizarre, and overall doomed attempts at losing their virginities before college. Included in their journey is a wealth of cameo guest stars—Scott Thompson, Graham Norton, gay porn icon Matthew Rush, and “Last Comic Standing’s” Ant. There’s even George Marcy, an aged actor dragged from the 1950s who sounds like Wally Gator.

But most of all, Another Gay Movie is noteworthy for two things: The title song “Another Gay Sunshine Day,” sung by Nancy Sinatra, that’s so unbelievably campy it becomes embedded in your skull; and a five-minute cut scene found in “Special Features” starring Mink Stole as Sloppy Seconds, a drag queen who accosts one character in a dance club restroom with a story so unbelievably terrible and bizarre I was laughing for days.

by Adam Balz | Source: TLA Relesing DVD
15 Jan 2007 2:01 PM | Comments (1)

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1. Maurice Hall / 17 January 2007 / 7:17 AM

   I have not seen this, but you have made me curious. The scene in the restroom with Sloppy sounds like a reference to a scene in another, campy (& bad) gay-romantic-comedy entitled, “Trick.” If you have not seen it, check it out if only for Tori Spelling’s amusing melt-down in a diner. Thanks for the review, Mr. B.