Thanks for the review. It looked crappy. What happened to Will Ferrell circa Old Skool?

You should have come out with us and watched Another Gay Movie. Sooooooooooooooooooooo funny. And with homosexual, not homophobic jokes.

I thought it was funny. "The fact that I have a massive erection right now has nothing to do with you."

Uh, what? Will Ferrell clearly has respect for gay people.

What he was doing was spoofing, and making fun of the people who push those stereotypes onto us. The whole movie was a spoof of conservatism, and I doubt a majority of Will Ferrell's fans are NASCAR fans. The movie just opened #1 in the country... NASCAR isn't that popular.

And certainly the character was ridiculous, yes. All the characters in that movie were ridiculous. That's what makes it funny.

The whole movie is a step forward, in fact. A gay character is present, but no of the other characters make fun of him for it, nor does he suffer for being gay. He just is, and there aren't repercussions for it.

I would be excited to hear what you find funny, David, because I'm guess that you're part of an ultra-minority that finds it funny.

i actually thought it was pretty funny too. and i was in a fight with the s.o. because i wanted to go to the night listener too. but then i ate my words because i laughed out loud the whole movie. could some of the stereotypes in teh movie be considered offensive. sure. but light hearted most certainly. and all the machiatto, perrier refereces seemed to be making fun of the french way more than gay men.

Are you really above being made fun of? If we can't make fun of gay people who can we make fun of? Learn to laugh at yourself pal. It helps to be able to take a joke every now and then.

I think gay men have lost their sense of humor. While this certainly wasn't the funniest movie, and it could have been much better, I did laugh out loud at many of the jokes. Yet, I never found any of them to be homophobic. At the same time, though, I was thinking, "Oh lordy, the gay media is going to hate this."

As people say above, the movie is a spoof. There were equally (if not more) jokes about NASCAR fans, than gay men. Being a fan, I laughed just as hard at those, too.

I think gay men need to get over themselves and learn how to laugh again. I'd rather a character like Jean Girard in my life than Jack McFarland anyday. Now HE was offensive.

And, btw, NASCAR has 75 million fans (making it the country's biggest sport). I proudly count myself as one of it's gay fans. I'm sure the members of my Yahoo group for GLBT fans of the sport would agree.

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i didn't think the movie was all that great, either -- but that's because it had no plot and most of the jokes were flat, not because it was homophobic. i actually thought that the gay subplot was one of the more subversive elements of the movie -- considering that this is a movie about NASCAR, to have a man-to-man kiss as the climax of the film is just about the biggest bird you can flip to the homophobic redneck stereotype that the movie tries to dispel (through parody). i just wish the rest of the movie had been as inspired.

I think some people who walked out of the film missed the boat by being so offended by the making fun of cultural groups, namely gay stereotypes. Assuming that the main character's nemesis, a gay french man was a direct jab at the lifestyle, culture, and life of the entire gay world is kind of ignorant and a self absorbed perception of the film and a bit short sighted. If one were to really look at this...the gay character was French...and always patriotic about his home country of France. Bill France is a major NASCAR player and this character was perhaps more of a jab at France, the man and France the country, and french culture than a playful poke at gay life, not to mention using a backdrop of the entire ridiculous NASCAR fabric as a way to paint this spoof. At least within the social and cultural vaccuum that is NASCAR, associating a pillar of NASCAR history like France to a gay french man would be sacraligous. Conservatives, NASCAR fans, Bible bangers, southerners and the like are the ones who should be offended by this film. I think some gay men are more pissed that a gay man was portrayed as a NASCAR driver than redneck NASCAR fans were pissed about an idiot and a a gay man were the ones behind the wheels of the largest grossing marketed sport in the country and subsequently the number one film of the week. Like the last post read...the man to man kiss was just about the biggest middle finger you could put up to the generally sheep minded followers of the sport. Lighten up people.

I agreed with David. I thought it was a jab at the French more than at gays. I mean the whole thing was ridiculous. I cannot stand Nascar. I remember once flipping on MTV (when Nascar wasn't popular and MTV still showed videos) and they were showing all these hillbillies. One had a Confederate flag and said he liked Nascar because "There ain't no n$gg&*s in Nascar." I couldn't believe he said that out loud. Then there were the underage girls who said they were there for the free cigarettes (back in the Winston days). Yeah made me want to go buy me a six pack of Bud and head on down to my local track . . . oh right, we don't have a track. Okay so I'll never be a fan. I'm sure now that Nascar is so mainstream (which sadly it is) the fans have gotten to be a better caliber but still it is Nascar. I mean it would be a waste of my Prada bag and Rock N Republic jeans to go there. Anywho, I did think the movie was stupid funny. I mean this wasn't intelligent humor. It was just so dumb it was funny. Having gone to a Catholic girls' school I thought the whole argument over which Jesus to pray to the sandal wearing bearded Jesus or the Baby in the manger Jesus was hysterical. I however could have done without the 500 times my husband called me his "hot ass wife" after we saw the movie but a little threat to cut him off took care of that. If you haven't seen it I'd rent it. Invite your cousin and her redneck boyfriend over to watch it and laugh at them laughing at themselves.