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ANOTHER GAY MOVIE / Todd Stephens (2006)

August 12th, 2006 by Scott Marks

Todd Stephens’ ANOTHER GAY MOVIE (2006)

Another Gay Movie (2006)

Directed by: Todd Stephens

Written by: Tim Kaltenecker, Todd Stephens

Cast: Michael Carbonaro, Jonah Blechman, Jonathan Chase, Mitch Morris, Ashlie Atkinson, Scott Thompson, Graham Norton, Stephanie McVay, John Epperson, James Getzlaff, Darryl Stephens, Richard Hatch, George Marcy, Matthew Rush, Joanna Leeds

Aspect Ratio: 92 min.

Genres: Comedy

Rating: ★★½☆☆

Another Gay Movie refers to both the title of this raunchy tuchas-aimed Gaymerican Pie takeoff and what most people say when asked what’s playing at Landmark’s Ken Cinema.

After my first viewing of Blazing Saddles back in 1973, if someone would have told me that I would ever tire of on-screen fart jokes (and doody humor in general) I’d have pulled their finger off. “Blazing Saddles” may have broken as much new ground as wind, but it would be years before flatulence went mainstream and began stinking up just about every film rated PG-13.

Not surprisingly, the first fart I ever remember being cut on TV came from the God of Gastrointestinal Guffaws, Howard Stern. It was on his 1991 WOR show when he embarrassed Denny Terrio by dropping in a rectal trumpet that appeared to be gurgling from the backside of Merv’s former “Dance Fever” host. I rewound that moment so many times that my tape copy has a permanent crease.

Howard paved the Hershey highway for countless lame imitators. We have reached a septic saturation point in our culture where even Disney features frequently include toilet humor. Not terribly surprising when you remember Uncle Walt’s anal fetish. Count the number of times momma’s boy Dumbo takes a board to the bum or pratfalls on his keester, or his pachyderm predecessor Elmer Elephant lands face-first in the ostrich’s rear end.

Now its boy meets butt in this tale of four virgin tops in search of their dream power bottoms. “Another Gay Movie” successfully erases the bad taste left by Adam and Steve and Ethan Greene supplanting it with even more gross-outs, and this time they’re pretty damn funny.

Before Nancy Sinatra can sing the title theme we have already witnessed hot ‘n’ horny Andy (Michael Carbonaro) daydreaming about being bent over a desk by his Teutonic teacher, his cross-dressing mother catching her son using a carrot as a masturbatory aid and an obligatory nod to a dead gerbil. Taking time out from munching her way through the cheerleading squad, class bulldyke Muffler (Ashlie Atkinson) taunts the boys for never having done the Big ‘A.”

Rounding out the foursome are Griff (Mitch Morris), the well-endowed preppie, adorable jock Jarod (Jonathan Chase) and glitzy Nico (Jonah Blechman) whose bedroom is lit and designed as though Liberace dropped acid and built a full scale replica of Barbie’s Dream House. It’s here that the recent graduates make a pact to master the art of “anus-cockus” before summer’s end.

Remember Kelp’s class of thirty-year-old high schoolers in Jerry Lewis’ The Nutty Professor? (Indulge me.) The student body of San Torum High School doesn’t look much younger. Equally unbelievable is why none of these hot “booty virgins” decides to tap the other’s back door.

The film stays fairly close to the conventions established by its straight forerunners. Instead of defiling one of mom’s hot homemade pies, a quiche is cleverly substituted. “Jackass: The Movie” had its Rip Taylor moment and in sticking with the current trend of cramming in unbilled celebrity cameos we have reality TV has-been for hire Richard Hatch, still surviving his fifteen-minutes of fame, and his ever-present penis.

Virtually every movie, no matter how good or bad, has at least one new thing to show us. Whether or not you need to see it is another matter. Aside from a bootleg Chuck Berry video, I have never witnessed a Cleveland Steamer (or Pittsburgh Platter if you’re from back East) attempted on film. Todd Stephen’s parents should be very proud of their boy.


Unlike its mainstream counterparts, Another Gay Movie didn’t even bother with the MPAA and is playing unrated. Contemporary teen sex romps, forged in gratuitous excess, are frequently ordered to trim the scat in order to get a safer ‘R’ rating. No matter how silly it all becomes, it’s refreshing to see a comedy refuse to buckle under the hands of the censors. Unless you are a card-carrying member of NAMBLA, this is not a film to take kiddies to.

What happens if the dick poking through the public restroom glory hole belongs to your dad? Should Three Stooges sound effects be used to draw attention to ejaculation, fisting and withdrawal? You have another week to catch “Another Gay Movie” and find out.

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