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 story follows two best friends, Danny and Elliot, who are desperate to get out of the draft. They decide the best way out is to pretend they're in a relationship, but the Army doesn't just take their word for it and puts them under surveillance. Even though they’re both young and have girlfriends, they’re forced to move into an apartment building full of gay residents to keep up the act. It’s a total mess because they’re trying to date women on the side without getting caught by the military investigators watching their every move. Their landlords, Malcolm and Craig, are constantly in their business, and at first, the boys just dismiss them with some pretty rude slurs. However, as they get to know the couple, they realize they’re actually good people and start to question all the prejudices they grew up with. Tensions boil over between the friends because Elliot just wants to go out and party with girls, while Danny is terrified of slipping up. Between parents visiting the apartment and a trip to a gay club, things stay chaotic until a twist ending: even when they get caught, they don't get drafted because the Army investigators are actually gay themselves and want to keep straight people out of the military.
As you’d expect, the whole movie is extremely campy. If you don't take it too seriously, you might actually find yourself laughing once or twice. I’ll admit I smiled at a few parts, especially the scenes with Malcolm and Craig—like when Malcolm pops over to fix them breakfast. The opening scene where a military doctor grills them with questions to see if they're "actually" gay was also pretty funny in a ridiculous way. Yeah, the movie is packed with every stereotype in the book, but it’s a farce from the late 60s, and they were basically just playing off how people saw gay men at the time. It’s probably asking too much for a movie from that era to be ahead of its time. The actors were actually all really good and played their parts exactly how they were supposed to. It’s pretty interesting to see how gay characters were shown in mainstream movies back when being gay was still mostly underground.
You have to watch it for what it was meant to be: just a bit of light entertainment. It’s not trying to make a big political statement or anything; it just wants to give you a quick chuckle. (5/10)
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