Rent The Big Gay Musical (2009)

1 dimensional - The Big Gay Musical review by MP

Gay movies are what I personally seek out and I am pretty over tolerant of LGBT+ queer work. But this movie had little going for it, unless you like simple movies which have songs in at key moments. None of if was either memorable or anything but old gay issues, which have been done a lot before at that level of simplicity. Arguably it was in the style of a gay Book of Mormon, but I wasnt a fan of that either. Personally I find Panto offers more depth and usually a lot funnier. I guess musicals for me come into two categories, simple stories punctuated by songs that are fairly mindless, and musicals that somehow combine song, dance (where included), and acting in such a way it touches something deeper. These kinds of musicals can be thrilling and really memorable. Needless to say this musical didnt make the second category for me. To be fair I don't enjoy USA mainstream movie humour much generally, there are exceptions and this wasnt one of them. The theme of gay men in New York doing theatre and trying to have a career in theatre a bit hackneyed, and depressing. Not a patch on Angels in America, Boys in the Band or indeed A Chorus Line. I guess I'm glad Ive seen this movie, but it got close to turning it off midway.