Badly written, badly directed, badly acted. Save your money.

I saw this – or should I say was assaulted by this ‘film’ today and still feel like I was punched in the face by a clown.

At first I thought, ‘o.k. if this was geared towards 13-16 year olds and how they will deal with their sexuality, fine’.

Then I realised that the movie presents charcters who have – get this – LESS than ONE dimension. Completely melodramatic, the WORST CANADIAN ACTING WE ARE FAMOUS FOR – it was like degrassi junior high for lesbians with less care for breaking stereotypes – this movie aims to RECREATE THEM. Watch critically. The characters are HALF DIMENSIONAL! Amazing. Every stereotype is rehashed and then shaved down!

The movie reinforces, believe it or not, sitcom level interpretations of what sexual orientations do to people, communities, families. Instead of creating characters who aren’t Falwell’s version of Sodom dwelling gay people, the movie could have been written by Bob Larsen or anyone from the religious right. Moreover, all the characters are on par with any other STRAIGHT and TERRIBLE film, say one with PAULY SHORE. Deal with that, eh?

On top of it all, it says clearly: only the fast movers, those who pick up quick, and are promiscuous are happy, brave or doing the right thing. Anyone unnatractive, average even, say… long-term partnered, is demonized as uptight, frigid, in effect morally corrupt. The film tries to destroy the idea that you have to find out on your own how to live – instead it says: only a quick hook-up or some dildos make you adequate. For the age the characters are supposed to be, they seem entirely un-self aware. When people pass thirty-five SOMETIMES THEY START THINKING LONG TERM. SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS EARLIER. SOMETIMES IT NEVER HAPPENS » THIS MOVIE SAYS THE PERFECT WORLD IS BOTH FLAT AND PEOPLE’S HEARTS ARE HARD AND CAN TAKE LOVER AFTER LOVER. Merciless.

The homogeneity pardon the pun of this film is disturbing. It’s like it was written by some football guy who got paid to approximate who he thought were women, but in fact were bad jokes from primetime American TV.

This would be a disservice to show young people without the preamble “all these following characters are the LEAST REAL PEOPLE EVER PRODUCED IN CANADA” – I am ashamed to live in the same country as Peggy Thompson, the writer who should know better. This movie should be taken apart in every women’s, cultural, film etc. course.

I realised this was the worst movie outside of Disney productions I had ever seen, within the first ten minutes. I continued watching to see HOW BAD IT COULD GET, and it became sufficiently progressively worse to keep my eyes slightly open.

If you have anything to do with art, have gone to art school, are familiar with conceptual art etc., when you see this you will hurt. Embarrassing like nothing else. The most juvenile, vapid and typically high-school bred approaches take root in this movie. If you have seen ghostworld, this will sum it all up: all the characters/protagonists in here are like the characters in ghostworld who are the BUTT OF THE ENTIRE FILM’S raison d’etre.

Never before have I seen such irritating, flaky bullsh-t which is a slap in the face to any gay person who has figured out that YOU AREN”T SUPPOSED TO ACT LIKE YOU ARE ON TV BECAUSE YOU PROBABLY AREN’T EIGHT.

To all those who gave this good reviews, well, I assume you are mainly American and don’t have a gauge outside of television in the first place, stuck in your trailer with posters of Bud girls, watching Full House. No, it isn’t so, the bulldykes I hung out with in Nashville would be pissed at this – although the hairdresser guy I rented a trailer room from was himself quite retarded. He would’ve liked this movie. He had a BLACK VELVET CLOWN PAINTING up in my bedroom – with NO IRONIC INTENT.

Good luck, I hated this movie so much I’ve been waiting all day to get it out. Buy some chocolate and rent