The Gist:
A gay 5 man Sunday football (soccer) league team, whose members all have issues to deal with, are about to play their first game. Unfortunately it's against the toughest bad rep team in the league (whose members also all have issues to deal with).
Comments:
The movie has many elements that should have made me love it: a large multicultural cast, varied sexuality, it's loud and bright, and sharp yet playful. Instead I just thought it was barely ok.
Unfortunately instead of coming off as natural and a reflection of the real world, it feels formulaic and kind of preachy. Every footballer has an issue to work through, and each one is given time to do so, leading to a story juggling drugs, internalized homophobia, questions of paternity, metrosexual-phobia, and more, and more, and more, to the point that the repetitiveness of looping subplots gets a little exhausting. So much is going on (and quickly resolved) that it's difficult to care about anyone.
Still, it's not a bad movie, just a really weak one. Rikki Beadle Blair is the best thing in it, although in the end, watching him play a fey, gay dad of an angst-y teen made me wish I were instead watching him play a fey, gay dad of an agnst-y teen in Metrosexuality (a great British TV show).
Women:
Yes
People of color:
Yes
Gratuitous nudity:
One joke scene
- Director: Rikki Beadle Blair
- Writer: Rikki Beadle Blair
- Actors: Duncan MacInnes, Ian Sharp, Ludvig Bonin, Rikki Beadle Blair
- 99 min
- IMDB
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