I was forced to remain in the theater til the bitter end of this fiasco because I was with someone who could not leave the screening without embarrassing himself. Otherwise I would have fled after a half hour or so. Never have I witnessed such a uniformity of cliché, bad acting, awkwardly staged scenes, and painfully bad writing. It occurred to me that every shot resembled something out of a TV commercial. I cringed often at the condescending dialog, at the self conscious acting, at the cornball sentimentality.
When all was said and done, however, I had to grant the film one genuine distinction: the gay sub-plot, for all its embarrassing clichés, at least includes some growth in the attitudes of the gay character and his homophobic siblings. For an audience that sees this film and is able to ignore its awfulness, it offers this bit of progressive humanity. Other than that, prospective viewers are warned "Run for the hills!".
When all was said and done, however, I had to grant the film one genuine distinction: the gay sub-plot, for all its embarrassing clichés, at least includes some growth in the attitudes of the gay character and his homophobic siblings. For an audience that sees this film and is able to ignore its awfulness, it offers this bit of progressive humanity. Other than that, prospective viewers are warned "Run for the hills!".