This is your typical indie coming-of-age tale about a teenager, though it’s clearly working with a very tiny budget. Set within a migrant family living in Southern California’s Coachella Valley, the movie digs into how fragile old-school traditions and expectations can be. We follow a teenage son as he goes through the process of coming out and struggles to find acceptance while dealing with homophobia, domestic abuse, and a messy love triangle that involves his own sister. Goyo is seventeen and just about to graduate from high school. Since he’s been a bit more feminine since he was a little kid, he’s always had to deal with emotional and physical transition from his dad, Ramon, who is obsessed with him being "a man." The only real love he gets is from a lady next door who actually respects him for who he is. The family lives in a Mexican community where everyone works on a grape farm, but things get shaken up when a new guy named Lucio arrives. Lucio basically seduces Goyo ...
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