Sister Mary (U.S. 2011)

The Gist:

In a small town overflowing with closeted gay men, someone is killing off the members of the openly gay boy band "Ex-Altar Boys" and it's up to an angry (and probably closeted) homophobe cop and his new partner, a "fabulous" openly gay cop from Los Angeles, to try to stop the murder spree. After not being particularly competent at this task, a wacky openly gay FBI agent comes to town to assist in the murder investigation. 

Comments with spoilers:

A murder-mystery, gay, slapstick comedy, slasher flick is a lot of adjectives to pull off successfully. In order to work it would need to be fast paced, witty, and funny. This movie is slow, not smart, and almost all the jokes fall flat. In a word, it's terrible. 

Nearly everyone is a walking talking gay stereotype, which doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing if used as the start of a joke commenting on stereotypes or as an attempt at being transgressive, but the movie does neither, and it ends up just feeling like lazy writing, where the joke is merely "Look a gay guy is sex obsessed! Isn't that hilarious!" 

Besides gay stereotypes the other ongoing overdone joke is that everyone is wildly incompetent at their job, from cops to boy band members. At least I think it's supposed to be a joke. Anger prone abusive cops who can't do their jobs sounds like a lazy joke similar to the sex obsessed gay jokes used, but it's not entirely clear if the the fact that the boy band members can neither dance nor sing is supposed to be funny, or if perhaps it was just that the actors hired for the job couldn't do either. 

As a comedy, it's not funny. As a murder mystery, it's pretty obvious. As a slasher flick, it's neither suspenseful nor gross. As a gay flick cliche it's boring. 

As far as bad movies go, unfortunately It's not bad enough to be interesting, and not really worth the time to watch. 

Women:

Judy Tenuta in a serious role as angry nun (odd, given this is supposed to be comedy), a female police officer with a couple of lines, and actors in a "fictional" soap opera that some of the characters watch. 

People of color:

A couple

Gratuitous nudity:

Nope

• Director: Scott Grenke
• Writer: Scott Grenke
• Actors: Ant, James Vallo, Bruce Vilanch, Judy Tenuta
• 99 min
• IMDB