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 ...
The plot of the film is pretty basic and simple. Four high school senior boys are on a quest to lose their virginity, but with the queer twist that everyone is gay! We meet Andy, who fantasized all the time about his exchange professor. Jarod is the school jock baseball player, Griff is the trusty best friend, who we later learn has a crush on Jared which leads to some comical blunders and mishaps. Nico is the campy flamboyant sidekick who has a thing for older men – but is still in the closet with his mother and dating a blind girl. The boys are close friends and are all virgins and they decide that this summer before going to college they all need to lose their virginity. Jarod lands a date with a hunky baseball player but can never get the act done. Griff tries his best to get Jarod's attention until finally he has to just say it out openly at the end. Andy, who has been lusting after his professor almost gets into a BDSM situation with his teacher which is live streamed and somehow manages to escape. Nico tries his luck with older men, before his mother finally confronts him and he comes out and she is very very supportive. The four friends finally manage to lose their anal virginity on the final night of the summer.
You have to remember to not take the film seriously at any point. It is supposed to be a spoof of films like 'American Pie' and does justice to it to a large extent. Andy's over supportive father giving the friends some gay knowledge was hilarious and awkward and embarrassing; all at the same time. The situations that all these friends end up finding themselves were funny , when you look at it from a spoof point of view. The minute you take any of it seriously, you will totally roll your eyes and scream in disbelief. The acting is VERY over the top by all actors but I guess that was the idea and the summary given to them. The situations are very predictable, some of them crass and cringy, but like a said, when you make a spoof film, its hard to objectively review a film for its own merits. I remember enjoying the film 15 plus years back when I first saw it, but watching it now; I had mixed reactions. This amateurish comedy does give a lot of awkward gags about coming out and sexual misadventures, but I can see people either enjoying the stupidity of it all or bruising it aside completely. I will leave it at an average rating, since it wasn't that bad that you could't leave your brain aside and laugh at just how silly the whole thing was. (4.5/10)
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The only reason I rewatched this was cos I realized I had not reviewed it here on my blog. Otherwise a movie like this.. and watching it second time... probably would never have happened. :) lol