Best movie ever!

Absolutely brilliant

Blistering performances.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

This is obviously a film that comes from the heart. If only it had embraced its sincere dramatic elements more fully, it might have been a worthwhile outing. It does indeed suffer from many of the usual ailments associated with ultra-low-budget films (e.g. inexperienced actors, flimsy production design, gaping plot-holes, etc.) but the biggest problem by far is its insistence on assaulting the audience with copious amounts of tone deaf "wacky comedy". Just about every time the plot builds to a moment of poignancy, the script turns around and kicks itself in the balls with an ill-timed, unfunny joke. This, combined with the bargain basement production values, makes for a grating, nearly unbearable experience.

Writer/Director Moody had the germ of an idea which might have worked if not done so earnestly; therefore making this muddled and filled with holes script barely reasonable.Most of the high raters here, I suspect might be gay because the film impersonates cross sexuality being so black and white.Moody also refers to characters we never see except for a brother at the end.Things like a father wearing dark glasses after having eye dilation has no usefulness and takes up badly needed script time to help explain the missing plot.The mother and family are almost grotesque in their stupidity without any kind of humor and all of the work successful shows like "Queer As Folk" or "Will and Grace" did on TV to humanize gays, is lost in the meandering points which really do not show any ingenuity or even one memorable line or quote. Frankly,scenes like the professor's seduction of his sister-in-law is incestuous and weird and her curiosity about how good the sex was after he comes back to reality is obscene.The budget constraints probably had a lot to do with all the questions the viewers ask themselves while trying to figure out what the hell is happening on the screen.

Unhappy middle-aged gay man gets transported back to his high school days, and everyone's gay! Including the boy of his dreams. A nifty concept, but it gets derailed halfway through when our hero suddenly falls for a girl, which in itself isn't a problem--but he's been gay the whole time, and suddenly has feelings for a girl, and doesn't even pause to question this sudden 180- degree turn in his sexuality, he just pursues her. The film then wanders off into 80s teen-film land, with moral lessons for all about acceptance.If the film had remained an exploration of this one fellow's problems with his own life, the premise would have worked really well. Too bad it didn't do that.Other strangeness: the auto repair guy with the uncanny ability to find our hero at crucial moments in unlikely places, the two brothers mentioned at the start who never appear except for one at the very end, as he's about to return to his real life, the del sol that is miraculously repaired twice using 1970s junkyard parts. Amazing!

As an avid viewer to any and all gay themed movies...this one made me think the most. don't get me wrong it was entertaining, however, I almost wonder if this is some how trying to make society think that being gay IS a choice. On that I don't agree. On the other hand, when you take the dominant sexual preference of society and turn the tables on them and let them see what the outcome is, I wonder if the message will get across. You will have to form your own opinion. I truly enjoyed the casting, and the lead actor is quite versatile in his ability to portray then and now. 8 out of 10 in my book. Definitely worth seeing.