Bros

Bros

Two men with commitment problems attempt a relationship.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Romance
  • Stars: Billy Eichner, Luke Macfarlane, Ts Madison, Monica Raymund, Guillermo Díaz, Guy Branum, Amanda Bearse, Miss Lawrence, Symone, Bowen Yang, Benito Skinner, Harvey Fierstein, Jim Rash, Brock Ciarlelli, Dot-Marie Jones, Kristin Chenoweth, Debra Messing, Eve Lindley, Jai Rodriguez, Matthew Wilkas, Peter Y. Kim, Justin Covington, Ryan Faucett, Becca Blackwell, D'Lo, Dahlia Rodriguez, Derrick Delgado, George Dvorsky, Jamyl Dobson, Ben Stiller, Kenan Thompson, Amy Schumer, Jillian Gottlieb, Rick Crom, Everett Quinton
  • Director: Nicholas Stoller
 Comments
  • proud_luddite - 13 March 2024
    Enjoyable
    A romantic comedy between two men in their forties in Manhattan: Bobby (Billy Eichner) is an outspoken curator of the new LGBTQ+ history museum; Aaron (Luke Macfarlane) is a lawyer who dreams of being a chocolatier. While the two are not relationship-seeking, their mutual attraction grows.

    The humour of this film is its greatest asset: Eichner is hilarious as a mile-a-minute talker firing off some great lines (he's one of the film's writers along with Nicholas Stoller, the film's director). There are also enjoyable museum board meetings that take more than a few fun jabs at victim consciousness among modern activists. Like many other rom-coms, this one includes the conflicts of polar opposite personalities between the two leads. And there's more enjoyable mockery as the film takes on the dating and sex scenes in the gay world with flawed but funny personalities.

    Outside the humour and sharp-tongued sarcasm, there is a warm side to the film (like other rom-coms). For "Bros", this is best shown during the conclusion with Eichner's monologue.

    An enjoyable film overall. - dbamateurcritic.
  • LeBallz - 27 August 2023
    Follows The Formula But Has Nothing to Add
    I expected quite a bit from this movie given the people involved. I've been a fan of Billie Eichner since his early Youtube days and have enjoyed all of the movies Nicholas Stroller has directed so thought this would be an easy addition to the adult Appatowesque rom-coms of the last 20 years.

    I was wrong. Instead of being a rom-com who's leads happen to be gay, the movie is a bitter grievance piece, short on laughs and long on snark in the place of comedy. The movie is so preoccupied with including every possible combination of LGBT representation that it loses the central thread of examining how modern gay relationships are mostly the same but sometimes profoundly different than heterosexual ones. Representation is not an artform in and of itself and it allows this movie to rest too much on the laurels of being novel rather than being good.

    Luke MacFarlane is legitimately bad in this movie. Wooden to his core and lacking any wit or chemistry with Eichner. Eichner comes across as bitter and entitled, finally letting his mask slip when he delivers a 6 minute monolouge about how nobody is as talented as he is but he doesn't get recognition because he's gay. Effectively everyone else has a problem and his craft is perfect.

    Ironically he delivered a tremendous flop for one very simple reason. The movie isn't very good.
  • whatgift - 27 May 2023
    Some good elements, too many stereotypes
    There is an earnestness to this production that makes you want to love it, but it unfortunately falls short in a few ways.

    First, Eichners character is so unlikeable and annoying it's hard to empathise or want him to get his man by the end. McFarlanes on the other hand, while leaning into a stereotype shows a sincere depth, which McFarlane does a great job of realising.

    Second, it spends way too much time trying to have a progressive message - it just comes off as trying too hard and it's completely unnecessary in this story. Every time the movie strays from the central love story it drags and feels tokenistic.

    It's laughable that the filmmakers thought this would appeal to a mainstream audience, when it's quite cringe to watch as a gay man. Why do we need to throw all these stereotypes and progressive messages on screen, when it could just be a movie where there are two guys who like each other (a lot)?

    All that being said, the love story is kinda sweet and shows that two very different personalities can make a relationship work.
  • mandy-gratteri - 29 December 2022
    A really great movie
    I watched this movie thinking it was going to be a laugh out loud silly movie. What I watched instead was a movie which was untraditionally romantic, funny without being silly or cringe, heartbreaking and touching.

    This is not a traditional romcom, but it wasn't meant to be. This movie was well thought out and a delight to watch.

    I haven't bothered to read the other reviews as I like to form my own opinion and I would watch this again and again.

    I loved this movie and would recommend this to anyone who enjoys a good romcom.

    It was a shame it didn't do well at the box office, hopefully it does alot better streaming.
  • kcrisenphoenix - 14 December 2022
    What a WONDERFULLY Refreshing Gay Movie!
    Billy Eichner hit it out of the park on every single level. What a wonderful movie! Yes, it is a rom com and of course there were things I knew would happen -- the classic boy meets boy, boy loses boy, boy gets boy back --but it was a rom com and that happens. How wonderful that it was GAY this time! And the BEST thing about it is that the gay men are REALY gay men! Gay men acting like real gay men. With all the silly cringy hilarious sexy weird wonderful things we gay men do. I LOVED THIS MOVIE! Why didn't it do better in the theater! Billy Eichner, you are a genius! Thank you so much for this movie! I will treasure it forever!
  • bob-hopson-773-616391 - 4 December 2022
    Formulaic, but enjoyable
    Formulaic, but you sort of have to be that to appeal to the typical romcom-minded folk; however, it made some valuable points about the way gay people used to be treated in the U. S. and still are in places. Sadly, non of the "typically attractive muscle-bound" types were deemed intelligent enough to appear in the audience/patronage during the grand opening of the museum. Perhaps this was due to the writer and director holding their own biase/prejudice. A bit hypocritical or just an oversight? Billy was humorous, as usual and the cast was enjoyable. Plus, plenty of eye candy to look at.

    Overall, worth watching.
  • myronlearn - 21 November 2022
    'Bros' is a Home-Run
    I will admit that my expectations of this movie were not very high. To begin with, I was unfamiliar with both of the key actors. However, I was pleasantly surprised and thought this to be, minus a few flaws, an excellent film. Both Luke Macfarlane and Billy Eichner gave very good performances. They represented different sides of the LGBTQ spectrum, Macfarlane being more quiet whereas Eichner was the 'in your face' character who opined loudly and to some, offensively.about issues he felt were important to their community. 'Bros' demonstrated to this straight man, that like most things, both sides of any issue can co-exist as long as everyone learns to agree to disagree. Personally, I was more sympathetic to Eichner's perspective but understand Macfarlane's as well. The supporting cast also contributed greatly to making this cinematic gem work, including a cameo by the hilarious Debra Messing. Kudos to all involved! It was well worth the ride.
  • kaylabrine - 5 November 2022
    Bleh...
    I watch a lot of Rom coms and I was so excited to see a gay romcom but my god this just ruined it for me, not sure why all the sex scenes were needed... what happened to good old meeting having a good time something goes wrong and they realised they love each other.. in a way this happened but the story behind it was crap. Before watching the film I went into it thinking it would be about a gay man and a straight man realising he's gay and falling in love would have been a much better storyline I think. Billy was annoying as hell! I understand camp gay but it went abit over the top for me abit the spark between them would have been enough if the writers played on that, I'm Bi myself and was sooo looking forward to it but the whole movie was just rubbish and that's putting it nicely.