Granted, he was just following 'orders', but, again, Jonah Hill's character in Superbad is Nick in this movie. You just want a giant septic tank to fall on Nick and crush him to death instantly. He's not funny, he's not sympathetic, he's absolutely nothing. I mean I didn't hate him or anything of the sort, but I just found him to be so goddamn awful in this movie. I've seen Horatio Sanz in SNL before, back when I watched it, and I didn't really care about him one way or the other. And I get that he's 'meant' to be ignorant in assuming that gay people can't be doctors/lawyers/etc, but even when he befriends these men, he can't stop being annoying. I just really wanted to punch this fucking asshole right in the face. Where do I even get started on Nick? Nick is one of the most obnoxious characters I've seen in a long time. Jerry is a lying douche, leading this woman, that he's falling in love with, that he's truly gay. Not to mention the fact that the lead characters, Jerry and Nick, are horrible people. This film just has the gags and they're, quite honestly, really terrible. Klown, a Danish sex comedy, and Superbad are just two sex comedies off the top of my head that have those elements. Sex comedies are tricky to pull off, but they're not impossible if the gags themselves are well-constructed and the film, at least, has some sort of character progression. This movie makes Sandler's treatment of women in his films like high-quality feminist cinema. They are just there to look hot and be half naked for Nick to completely ogle at and drool over. And don't even get me started on the way women are portrayed in this movie, at least the Swedish suntanning team. They can't be narrowed down to a specific set of stereotypes that this film, clearly, wants to narrow them down into. Homosexuals are human beings like the rest of us. But they're 'fun', so it's ok to portray them in this way just because they're fun people to be around. Gays, in this film, are all portrayed as effeminate, cross-dressing, sex-crazed miscreants. The thing is that, with this movie, you needed to avoid exactly the same things that this movie gave in to. I don't think there's a problem, inherently, with this type of movie. I love Lin Shaye and she, regardless of her character, gets this film one star just by being in it. This would have been one of the worst movies I've seen, in quite a while, were it not for the fact that Lin Shaye is in this movie. And it was just absolutely fucking dreadful. The reason I start with this is simply because of the fact that this is the most homophobic, gay-panic movie I've seen in quite a while. If you are two consenting adults and you're not, in any way, shape or form harming anyone else, nobody is allowed to tell you who you can be with or what type of sex you have. Motherfuckers can't run their own lives and they want to control someone else's and tell them that they shouldn't be in with a person of the same sex because some bullshit about it's immoral. I've never understood the whole deal with homophobes. Whether Morgan Freeman said that or not, the fact is that it's a quote that's 100% on the money. The account is now defunct, but I followed it for some time on twitter. You're just an asshole.' The quote, I believe, originated from the twitter parody account Tweets from God. There's this quote that is, often, falsely attributed to Morgan Freeman that says 'I hate the word homophobia. Rating: R (Some Drug Material|Language|Strong Sexual Content)ĭolby Stereo, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby Digital, Dolby SR For Nick, love takes the form of a gorgeous model, Inga (Victoria Silvstedt), while Jerry develops feelings for dance instructor Gabriella (Roselyn Sánchez). As the true nature of their situation gradually dawns on them, they start to get over their feelings of homophobia and meet potential mates. After Nick (Horatio Sanz) makes an insensitive remark, his travel agent decides to get some payback by sending him and his best friend, Jerry (Cuba Gooding Jr.), on a cruise for gay men.
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