MOVIE REVIEW: Gay rom-com brosthemovie isn't just a straight rom-com in a different hat.
) to get inside modern gay relationships – or, more especially, affluent, white, middle-class, cis gay male relationships in New York.has an element of sex comedy about it, mostly about the awkwardness of one-night stands or of asking and receiving.
It's arguably less explicit than something like another Stoller project,. Those scenes really show how often Hollywood in the past has othered any kind of queer sexual contact, and find a different kind of humor: the gay perspective on the ridiculousness of gay sex, just as any scene with some suitor thrutching obliviously on a bored Sandra Bullock shows the ridiculousness of straight sex. Most importantly – and it's stupid that we still have to say this – it's gay sex in a mainstream, multiplex-ready movie that's not about AIDS or pushing aside closeted shame. It's about love and passion and fun, and occasionally an awkward sense of obligation. And, of course, what really matters is the relationship. Eichner and Macfarlane have a fresh and unique energy when it comes to rom-coms – and it's not just because they're two guys. As Leiber, Eichner tones down his early histrionic and playfully acerbic comedy style for something a little more bitter. There's a delicious edge of frustration to Bobby's self-pitying yelp whenever Aaron just disappears midway through a conversation, while Aaron melts into the floor every time Bobby devolves into the kind of self-righteous cliche that he clearly never wants to be. Eichner and Stoller have written a script that, in some ways, echoes Matthew Lopez’s epic Tony-winning dramain its themes of honoring without emulating gay history, even if it's done through the slightly heavy-handed mechanism of Bobby working on the advisory board of a new LGBTQ museum . Now, as a cis heterosexual man not living in New York, I can't honestly say how accurate this all is – but that's not the point. Eichner and Stoller have done something important in making a comedy about modern gay love that says it's just like modern straight love – well, no, scratch that. Their whole film is about showing how modern gay relationships aren't quite the same as modern straight relationships, but the differences aren't important. Well, they are, but not in the ways that bigots and morons want them to be. They're not bothered about explaining, but they are quite happy to show audiences their experience, and let them play catch-up. And, yes, when you get to the end, you'll get that happy ending. It's a rom-com, after all.
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