Two men with commitment problems attempt a relationship.
- Released:
- Runtime: 120 minutes
- Genre: Comedy, Romance
- Stars: Billy Eichner, Luke Macfarlane, Ts Madison, Monica Raymund, Guillermo Díaz, Guy Branum, Amanda Bearse, Miss Lawrence, Symone, Bowen Yang, Benito Skinner, Harvey Fierstein, Jim Rash, Brock Ciarlelli, Dot-Marie Jones, Kristin Chenoweth, Debra Messing, Eve Lindley, Jai Rodriguez, Matthew Wilkas, Peter Y. Kim, Justin Covington, Ryan Faucett, Becca Blackwell, D'Lo, Dahlia Rodriguez, Derrick Delgado, George Dvorsky, Jamyl Dobson, Ben Stiller, Kenan Thompson, Amy Schumer, Jillian Gottlieb, Rick Crom, Everett Quinton
- Director: Nicholas Stoller
Comments
- fijaso-19242 - 26 February 2024
Not bad for a romcom
This romantic comedy revolves around two middle-aged gay men grappling with the decision of pursuing a relationship, offering some humorous moments and overall easy viewing. However, the film's enjoyability is somewhat hampered by Billy Eichner's overly assertive performance. His character comes across as strident, angry, and condescending, making it challenging to spend two hours immersed in the storyline. The lack of a strong connection with his character diminishes the viewer's investment in whether he finds love, given his off-putting demeanor.
While recognizing Eichner's passion as an openly gay actor bringing LGBTQ+ narratives to the forefront, his character's abrasive nature tends to overshadow the film. Notably, there is a poignant soliloquy in the movie shedding light on the challenges of growing up gay during a time of marginalization and persecution. Nevertheless, the film risks feeling like a prolonged lecture, as spending two hours being talked at can be less appealing to audiences. - tomka_au - 19 August 2023
LOVED THIS!
I'm not into romcoms so I went into this movie expecting to dislike it and expecting it to be full of offensive over-the-top stereotypes but I loved it. The stereotypes are present but they are on-point, funny and relatable and the sex scenes are not too in-your-face as is what often happens with a gay storyline. There are lots of laugh out loud moments and heaps of lovable characters.
The storyline tackles real issues for finding love in our community especially being of a certain age and generation.
The only thing that would have made this movie better is a killer soundtrack although I did love the little cheeky Kylie track that is slipped in at the end. It's the best feel-good movie I have seen in a long time! - guyyoung2000 - 25 May 2023
Loved it!
Been waiting to see this for a while. Knew nothing about Billy but felt it would be a brave venture. I laughed, I cried. Followed every rom com trope from a gay perspective. As a 73 year old gay man it covered all of the emotions I've experienced in my life. An important movie to be made because homophobia is still alive and well. Thank you Debra Messing and Harvey Fierstein for lending your weight to the movie. Loved it and can't wait to see it again. A classic in my book to be rewatched. Sometimes I can't imagine what people expect! I was entertained, moved, amused, titillated and Luke Macfarlane is a doll! - dennisco-76051 - 29 December 2022
This movie can't decide what it is.
This movie has it's moments, but like most romantic comedies, is a little short on the comedy. Also doesn't live up to it's billing as a gay romantic comedy that the masses can enjoy. Right out of the gate it makes a point of being "unapologetically gay" .I'm not even sure I get all the jokes and references, being a straight guy. That actually might be a better movie in some ways, but, just saying, it's not what its advertised to be. Then there's the whole museum plot line, which has almost no good jokes attached to it and seems to be some awkward attempt to make sure all of LGBT, etc culture is represented, as well as "educate" straight people about gay history, although I don't really feel very educated, given the briefness of any history lessons it gave. Overall this movie seems like it's trying to be too many things to too many people and would be better off picking one direction and sticking to it. - paulclaassen - 13 December 2022
Hey! So, what's up?
"So, what's up?" You'll hear this about a hundred times during the course of the movie...
What's up is podcast host Bobby Lieber (Billy Eichner) finding himself falling in love when he least expected it, and with a guy who seems to be a complete mismatch. The mismatch in question? Hunky muscle stud Aaron (Luke Macfarlane). Their meeting in a club didn't go so well and Bobby had very little faith anything would become of their meeting.
The film explores two men who obviously enjoy being single, now out of their comfort zone starting seeing each other, and enjoying one another's company. Making a commitment, however, is the furthest thing from their minds. I must be honest, I never once viewed this film as romantic. Bobby and Aaron spending time together was more focused on satisfying a single man's desires, instead of pure romance. They never came across as a couple, nor as people wanting to be.
I found Bobby self-absorbed, a bit arrogant, and yes, even a bit spoilt. He really was not a very likable guy, despite being the film's main protagonist. I'm not sure whether the script was to blame for this, or Eichner's acting. (One thing I can say, is that I found him incredibly handsome with a lovely furry body. There, I said it!). I had numerous issues with this character, and to be honest I don't even think I rooted for him.
The word "gay" is thrown around like donuts in a police precinct! I mean, how many times do they actually use this word in the film? It honestly felt as if it was being shoved down my throat. I get it; it's a gay movie. There's no need to remind us every twenty seconds.
There were moments in the movie where I literally sat there shaking my head in disbelief, wondering WTF I was watching, and why. Like the Debra Messing scenes to name but a few... There were loads of satire, which was funny - like the Jodie Foster joke! But for most part the humour felt forced and the dialogue was unnatural and trying to be funny, when it really wasn't - and actually rather crude at times.
I must confess, I did like the ending. It almost redeemed the movie and made it worth the watch.
Unfortunately, 'Bros' was not a box office success. (What did they expect with this script??)
Would I watch it again? No. - jonlakeman - 3 December 2022
Enjoyed the movie, except for Billy Eichner
In general, we really enjoyed this movie; however, Billy Eichner is truly insufferable in this. Replace him with literally anyone else and it would have been better. I liked the storyline and laughed quite a bit, but Billy Eichner is irritating from the start, and only got more unlikeable as the movie went on. The Christmas scene was a disaster and i wanted to reach through the screen and punch him in the face. The whole point trying to be made of being your true unapologetic self was overshadowed by his by the fact that he was blatantly annoying, disrespectful, and pathetic. There's no way Luke McFarlane would put up with him IRL. - henrik-68809 - 13 November 2022
Happy I got to see it
I thought it would be a mainstream comedy where two gay guys were in the leading roles, but why was the vibe from the trailer so much different? I decided to give it a chance.
If you watched Difficult People you will probably like this. The jokes are kind of the same (maybe a bit less dark) and they kind of requires that you are well known in about the LGBTQ-community or they will go over your head, the movie doesn't do the slightest to help you understand. But the production values in this film is much higher.
I had a blast in the theater, but one theme in the film is the critic that gay culture have been appropriated by the mainstream culture, but in the same time the film is marketed as it is doing the same. They should branded the film as an indie comedy and then it would easier find it's audience.
