20 July 2008

Movie: Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild (2008)

After filming finished for the day on Star Trek: The Helena Chronicle episode I'm directing, Letter of the Law, I went to JT and Adam's place. On Thursday, JT had called to ask if I wanted to a preview of Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild, the obvious sequel to 2006's Another Gay Movie.

The first film was a parody of the American Pie films, and the other gay "coming out" movies. While the film had some funny stuff, it's dependence on gay stereotypes got annoying. It's cast was appealing, and very pretty, but ultimately it was more miss than hit.

The sequel offers some of the same raunchiness of the first film, though there was some attempt to go beyond the usual sequel style, which director Todd Stephens said last night was to basically remake the first film. But again, the film has more misses than hits.

Only Jonah Blechman as Nico returns for this film, with the rest of characters recast. His off-the-wall performance is perhaps the best part of the film, and he really shines in the one of the two (in my opinion) inspired sequences in the film: the "watersport" scene that turns into a song and dance number which highlights Blechman's roots as ballet dancer.

And while there is a terrible "crab" scene, there is a brief animation sequence which is so odd, it none the less, is pretty funny and creative. There is a gentrification joke given by RuPaul, which I also thought was pretty clever, if only because its very truthful.

Gossip queen Perez Hilton appears as Mario Lavanderira, who after a bump on the head while trying to give head to a priest, pops up in the movie at the most random times, preaching God's love and telling everyone to stop being gay. And while I hate everything he stands for, I was oddly surprised I liked him the movie. Maybe it to do with him just appearing out of no where, through out the overlong film or that he was playing such an opposite character.

Go figure.

The film was also heavily product placed, and while it was intended to be a joke about films that use that style to help finance the films, it also becomes overused, and eventually runs out of gas.

One the reason's JT asked me to come was to support Brent Corrigan, who has a small role as Stan the Merman in the film. Brent is attached to star in JT's feature film debut, Judas Kiss. This is the second time in the last few months I've met the utterly charming, genetic lottery winner Corrigan.

After the film, we had a late dinner with Corrigan, his manager and Jody Wheeler, who directed JT and Brent in the short In the Closet, which was showing at Outfest today. Corrigan is a really nice kid, with a great head on his shoulders and shows a lot of maturity for a 21 year-old.

And such a glamours life, we ate at IHop in West Hollywood.

He's kinda of shy in some ways, as much as he's open out his entire life. Of course, he's unbelievable gorgeous, but he's very down to earth and its very easy to have a conversation with. His life has been fairly rough, and while some the porn media want to portray him in some sort of dark light, he's far from the horror they've painted him. He's smart, knows what he wants and is willing to work hard for it. He's a rebel, in some ways ,within the porn industry, in the sense he trying to do things his way, fighting a well-oiled porn machine that does not want one of the pretty boys knowing more than them.

Anywho, back to the film.

Supposedly, the print we saw was "incomplete." The film does need to color corrected, as there are some beach scenes which are totally washed out. In the crab sequence, you could easily see the wires they attached to the creatures, and those should be digitally removed before the film is released -in theory, this Labor Day in theaters. My guess is the film will never see a theatrical release, beyond its showing at festivals like Outfest.

But it will clean up on DVD, which is where the real money is anyways.

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