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Chained To My Bully Stepbrother (AI Vertical BL Drama)

By Golu
This is the second vertical AI BL drama I've sat through, and honestly I went in knowing better. I had it on while I was doing cardio at the gym, and what struck me was just how much the plot echoed the last one I watched. Same step brother romance angle, same mystery girlfriend showing up near the end, same extra guy pining after one of the leads. Genuinely the only thing going for it was the runtime, the whole thing wrapped up in forty five minutes flat.  The setup kicks off with Finn moving schools because his mom just married into money. He finds out his new step brother Aiden goes to the same place, and he's warned to keep his distance from him. Their first run in at school is rocky, just like you'd expect, but there's this odd pull between them neither can shake off. Finn keeps telling himself not to read into it because Aiden's straight and openly homophobic. Things shift when some kids start bullying Finn and the student council president, Ryan, steps in to ...
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GBF

By Golu
Most of you know that the title of the movie stands for "Gay Best Friend". As per this film, GBF is the trendiest accessory for the girls to have, specially at a upscale suburban high school. Like most of the teenage comedies, this one also tries too hard to bring laughs, but it seems mostly cartoonish with a little sweetness here or there in parts. I can imagine most gays not liking the film unless you are very trendy teenager still in the ams phase of your life as the movie shows.

In the North Gateway high school, Brent and Tanner are best friends and both gay and they are both looking for a right opportunity to come out. Tanner is the sober natural one while Brent is the stereotypical flaming queen. They have 2 other straight friends who know about them but are very much part of the group. Caprice, Shley and Fawcett are the school divas who are popular and will probably be at loggerheads at the school prom queen contest. They are all looking for a personal edge for the competition and as per latest pop-culture, a GBF could exactly be the thing. Brent is preparing for this to be opportunity to come out but due to misunderstandings, it is actually Tanner who ends up getting outed. This brings a dent in their friendship but the net thing you know is that all 3 girls are vying to be best friends with Tanner to have an advantage over each other. To his surprise Tanner is actually loving all the attention and make over and getting drunk, and in the process neglecting his true friends and love Brent. A rival prom celebration is started when the school prom doesn't allow Tanner to bring a male date. Their are some funny moments around this. Of course things start getting clear in the process. Tanner realizes whats going on but also realizes that Fawcett has more to her than just a pretty face. Brent realizes his mistake. and all's well that ends well.

The biggest problem of this movie is that it doesn’t have a single believable moment in it. The movie works its concept to death with a silly storyline for matured gay audience but then if the target was teenage gays and girls, it is bang on. Performance wise, it us very hard to say anything because all the girls are supposed to be mean, over the top and sassy. I guess they do a  good job. It was great to see Megan Mullally as the closeted Brent’s overly supportive mother, who arranges a television marathon of gay movies. All the fun moments were courtesy her. Tanner seemed honest in his portrayal of a teenager who is struggling with coming out. I liked the fact that parents of both gays are supportive and there is no unnecessary drama in accepting their kids.Brent was funny and the sorta GBF that the girls probably wanna have. The  blooper scenes under the closing credits are actually pretty funny.

An alright film which is funny in parts. It won't had you to watch it but don't expect any ground breaking stuff. (5.5/10)
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