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Boys In Love 2

1998, Movie, NR, 97 mins

Boys In Love 2: Review

BOYS IN LOVE 2
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Seven short films, ranging from the bang-up to the amateurish, make up this gay-themed collection. Among the standouts: Karen Black Like Me, a smart-alecky reimagining of the most famous segment of the cheesy TV-horror fave TRILOGY OF TERROR, the one in which cult actress Karen Black is terrorized by an animated fetish doll. In filmmaker David Briggs' version, prissy sissy Emil (Ira Rosenberg) is pursued by a humongous dildo with a malicious life of its own: It's a one-joke concept, but the joke is supremely well-executed. Dirty Baby Does Fire Island features a baby doll washed ashore on, yes, Fire Island, where the druggy, sexy goings-on more than justify her perpetual wide-eyed and open-mouthed expression, and the black-and-white Boot Camp stages an Astaire-Rogers-style dance routine in a leather bar: Both are trifles, but they're clever and too short to wear out their welcome. The allegorical and stunningly art-directed My Body revolves around Charlie (played by the filmmaker, Joel Moffett), who's struggling with his sexual identity. He awakes the morning after his first gay sexual experience and finds to his horror that he has an unyielding erection and that there are now two of him; worse, one of him is dead, the victim of a "new fag disease," called "Sexually Repressed Shedding Disorder." Barry Purves' stop-motion-animated Achilles retells the tale of warrior lovers Achilles and Patrocles using animation modeled after classical Greek sculpture and painting, and Twilight of the Gods tells a heavily symbolically freighted story of jungle love between a 19th-century Maori warrior (Greg Mayor) and a wounded European soldier (Martin Csokas). The only real loser in the bunch is SPF 2000, an ill-conceived, self-proclaimed parody of Italian sexploitation movies: It's crudely made, and not half as clever as it seems to think it is. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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