bribabylk Review of Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds

Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds (2006)

Get this through your heads: It's OK to see a movie for the skin

[8 July 2007]

I'm not going to bother to try and sell this movie to other viewers by pretending it's anything other than what it is, a light farce meant to appeal to guys who like watching other guys make out and take off their clothes. I saw the first one at a film festival and remembered actually laughing quite a bit, but then I was kinda drunk at the time. The humor in this sequel is a little more strained (or I was a little more sober), but the film has other virtues that make it not a bad way to spend 80 minutes on a Saturday night with some friends before you go out dancing. Get off your high horses, all you other commenters who complained about the "near constant semi-nudity" and decried the notion that people would choose to see this movie rather than other "quality" offerings. Men, and especially gay men, like skin! We like to see beautiful guys in various states of undress! And we don't always want to have to resort to out-and-out porn to see it! Has the gay population been overrun by a bunch of prudes, almost as bad as the "ex-gay" group depicted in the film? Have you become as neutered as most of "respectable" gay cinema is these days, produced by filmmakers who would rather cut off their you-know-whats before showing a naked guy and run the risk of being labeled frivolous? Watch this movie with your GAY friends if your straight ones are too uptight to deal with the stomach-licking and full frontal nudity. And try and wrap your heads around this, weenies: you can watch serious, quality films AND silly, sexy, fluffy ones. You can go see "The Queen" or "The Departed" one night and "Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds" the next. See how easy that was? The only thing that really detracted from this movie is that Marco Dapper obviously shaves his groin; men should be men, not plucked chickens. Thank you.