Another Gay Movie

Another Gay Movie, directed by Todd Stephens (and also wrote the screen play) and starring Michael Carbonaro, follows the line with the series of Scary Movie films, by spoofing American Pie. This time, as the title leads you to believes, it takes on a decidedly homosexual theme and does so by incorporating scenes from other gay themed films.

The opening scene sets the tone of this hilariously funny, over the top movie. Andy, played by Carbanaro, is fantasizing about his math teacher, Mr. Puchov played by Graham Norton, which leads to Andy ending up having the teacher mount him atop of his desk in front of the entire class. This of course is a dream sequence, where we find Andy in his bedroom only to be walked in on by his mother, played by drag queen Lipsynka and his father played by Scott Thompson.

The movie does a very good job of introducing all of the major characters. It does so by peeping in on conversations of the friends moments after they have graduated from high school. Oddly enough, though they are very different characters, every facet of gay male teenage life can be found in one of the characters. There is the baseball jock, Jared, played by Jonathan Chase. Then there is “The Queen”, Nico, played by Jonah Blechman. The hot nerd, Griff, played by Mitch Morris and of course, the boy next door, Andy. The lovable but so far over the top, over sexed lesbian, Muffler, played by Ashlie Atkinson rounds out the high school friends.

Later that evening while all four friends attending Muffler's graduation party watch Jared’s failed attempt (more due to his state of drunkenness than his lack of beauty) to loose his virginity. Then after also witnessing several heterosexual couples copulate, not to mention Muffler conquering half the cheer leading squad, the four friends make a pact to lose their virginity to a man before the summer is over.

Of course, the first of the bunch to try to win the pact is the God-like jock Jared. After a playing a softball game against the neighborhood leather daddy's, Jared nags a date with the team's pitcher (no pun intended). Due to Jared's insecurities about the size of his own package, the game in the bedroom never gets past second base.

Though unlikely, the nerd comes very close to making good on the bet. In attempts to win the heart of Jarrod, Griff employs the services of a stripper at one of the local gay establishments to whip him into shape. Instead, the stripper, played by Noah's Ark’s Darryl Stephens, tries to get Griff into bed, but Griff thwarts his attempts in hopes that his first time will be with Jared.

Niko has about the same luck as the other two, but he decides to use the traditional way of meeting people, and that is by posting an advertisement on the internet. To his excitement, his ad is responded to by a well-endowed bodybuilding. On his date with the muscle bound behemoth, the date starts off bad and ends even worse. When all said and done, the date ends with a pair of paramedics in the living room giving the gym bunny mouth-to-mouth.

Now we come to the Andy's try at losing his virginity. This is by far the most unusual and funniest of the three. While trying to relieve himself while chatting on line, he starts up a conversation with an attractive man on the other end. The stranger on the other end starts to use acronyms that Andy is unfamiliar with and not wanting to seem too naïve, Andy says that he is knowledgeable of all of them and needless to say that when Andy goes to meet the person on the other end, much-unexpected things happen to him.

The time has come. The end of the summer is personified in another party at Muffler's house. As one could see, by the movie's near end, it seems that no one will end up with each other. But that would not make a good movie. I will not tell you how it ends, but like in most fairy tales, everyone lives happily ever after. The great thing about this film is that the four characters un-shamefully plug the possibility of a sequel. I can’t wait!