Funny in your face.

Another Gay Movie

* Starring Michael Carbonaro * Written and directed by Todd Stephens * TLA Releasing

Seeing Another Gay Movie made me realize how relatively bashful most queer cinema has been about the mechanics of sex. But this outrageous teen comedy--flawed though it is--is so shockingly inyour-face with its parade of butt plugs, penis extenders, and glass coffee tables as to create an entirely new paradigm. Writer-director Stephens's surprisingly sweet-natured farce follows the adventurous summer of four pals who set out to lose their anal virginity before going off to college. (The movie wastes no time establishing that the characters' actual gayness is no big deal.) As with Porky's and American Pie before it, the film's leads fit into easy categories: the cute shy boy (Michael Carbonaro), the flamboyant flamer (Jonah Blechman), the nerd (Mitch Morris) whose glasses hide a total cutie, and the lunkhead jock (Jonathan Chase). While queer audiences will enjoy the oddball mix of cameos from the likes of Lypsinka, Graham Norton, Richard Hatch, and Boy Meets Boys James Getzlaff, it's the shock value behind the sight gags that will have audiences talking. The movie's joke tally runs about 70% winners to 30% duds, a high-enough ratio to make this raunchy rule-breaker more than the title suggests.