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.
