The Gist:
Hong decides to pretend to be gay and join the "gays only" G-Boys contest, hoping to use the winnings to pay off his ever increasing credit card debt incurred by his shopaholic girlfriend. His best friend Shin joins the contest because being gay he is of course hopelessly in love with Hong and will do anything for him, since that's exactly what the gays do; martyr themselves whenever possible for straight dudes.
As this is going on other things are happening. Minor unimportant stuff like a crazy man threatening to bomb the contest.
As this is going on other things are happening. Minor unimportant stuff like a crazy man threatening to bomb the contest.
Comments:
I spent a few minutes looking around online for information about the movie and didn't find too much, and no actual professional reviews. What I did find were people commenting how funny the movie was, how sexy the actors were, and how much they loved finally finding a non-depressing gay movie with a happy ending.
I guess I'm a stick in the mud because while admittedly the leads are cute, I thought the movie was bad.
The story is flat and considering it is a romantic comedy it is not that funny, despite all the crazy, wild antics going on. Perhaps worse, the romance you are supposed to be rooting for, given it involves a gay guy dead set on being a victim in his desire to have a tragic unrequited love for his idiot straight friend, is problematic at best.
I guess I'm a stick in the mud because while admittedly the leads are cute, I thought the movie was bad.
The story is flat and considering it is a romantic comedy it is not that funny, despite all the crazy, wild antics going on. Perhaps worse, the romance you are supposed to be rooting for, given it involves a gay guy dead set on being a victim in his desire to have a tragic unrequited love for his idiot straight friend, is problematic at best.
On the plus side, a subplot about a young guy finding love and having to come out to his father because he joined the contest was sort of sweet, even if it made no sense (it didn't occur to the young man that joining an all gay contest would tip his father that he was gay).
While the movie spends far too much time making dumb gay jokes, once it settles down and begins to focus on the contest, it actually treats the contestants as "normal" characters instead of gay caricatures. Well, almost at least.
While the movie spends far too much time making dumb gay jokes, once it settles down and begins to focus on the contest, it actually treats the contestants as "normal" characters instead of gay caricatures. Well, almost at least.
So I guess depending on viewpoint it's either a fun non-depressing movie or it's not really worth watching.
Women:
One
People of color:
Yes
Gratuitous nudity:
No, though there are several men in skimpy swimsuit scenes.
- Director: Jong-jong Yu
- Writer: not listed
- Actors: TAE, Chen-Kang Tang, Yu Fa Yang
- 90 min
- Cantonese
- IMDB
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