For all the talk of Grindr and club hook-ups, poor Adam only ever gets one make-out - and even that ends in flatulent calamity.Īlso Read: 'Shades of Blue' Ray Liotta Gay Kiss Steams Up Social Media: 'Mouth Just Dropped!' And the film is disappointingly timid about showing the very thing it’s championing: same-sex desire. Many of the jokes - and later, a plot point - hinge on auto mechanic Adam’s (Evan Todd, “Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever”) possible attraction to his pals.Įvery last effeminate character is a cartoon nightmare of a sissy, suggesting a “right” and “wrong” (or at least a “desirable” and “undesirable”) way to be homosexual.
But first-time director Andrew Nackman’s emotionally shallow, vaguely misogynistic take isn’t it.įoul-mouthed yet ultra-tame, this bromance might have made a progressive-for-its-time companion piece with “Friends,” that gay panic-fueled ’90s TV staple. Despite arriving a decade too late, there’s a version of the small-town coming-out comedy “4th Man Out” - about a young, gay Average Joe whose friendship with his blue-collar buddies is tested by his newly announced sexuality - that could feel relevant.
