It’s not as good as the first one.

I wasn’t a huge fan of Another Gay Movie. I thought many of the jokes were funny, but there were also a lot of outright clunkers. But even I thought the central concept of the movie — a gay teen sex comedy — was absolutely inspired, the most brilliant idea for a gay movie since Trick. On the whole, the movie worked as both a satire of the teen sex comedy genre and as an effort to reclaim the ultimate heterosexual movie genre for us gay folks.

Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild has all the things I didn’t like about Another Gay Movie, but not as many of the things I liked.

In this sequel, Andy, Jarod, Griff, and Nico are back and off to Fort Lauderdale for spring break, to compete in a contest to see who can have sex with the most people

Here’s what I liked: some of the individual scenes are quite funny. There’s an “angel and devil on my shoulder” scene, where the angel and devil are played by drag queen versions of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, that is bust-a-gut hilarious.

It’s impossible not to be won over by the audaciousness of Nico’s musical homage to watersports — and I’m not talking about the waterskiing kind. There’s also an actual waterskiing scene, with a wonderfully fake back-drop and a coda to the scene that is surprising and hilarious (we’ve all been there).

And since the boys end up sharing a room, there’s a four-way morning erection scene that is both funny and charming, like something out of, yes, a Charlie Chaplin movie (if Charlie had been really, really gay).

From left to right: Aaron Michael Davies,
Jimmy Clabots, Jake Mosser, Jonah Blechman

Early press reports revealed that three of the four actors from the original movie would not be returning for the sequel, and the movie finds a clever way to explain the unfamiliar new faces, and to take those previous actors to task for apparently refusing to “play gay” for two movies in a row.

Meanwhile, Jake Mosser as the new “Andy” is a real find, a goofy, endearing actor who is pitch-perfect for this kind of role. Jonah Blechman as Nico is the only returning actor, and he becomes the heart of the movie…at least until the end when things go weirdly awry. But more on that later.

Once again, there were jokes and whole sequences that didn’t seem to work at all. A subplot featuring “the Jaspers” — a reference to “the Heathers” in Heathers? — left me cold. Scott Thompson was amusing in a butt-plug scene, but another scene involving vomit was both disgusting and just dumb. And if you thought the “Belgian chocolate” scene in Another Gay Movie went over the line, there’s a scene at the end of Another Gay Sequel that will have you revolted for days. Even now, I’m not sure what they were thinking.

But the biggest problem is the plot. Yes, it might seem funny to talk about “plot” when reviewing a movie like this, but what kept the first movie on track was its story: four gay boys complete to see who can be the first to lose their anal-virginity (but in the process they learn that getting f**ked is a lot more complicated that they thought).

From left to right: The Lady Bunny, Brandon Lim,
Will Wikle, Isaac Webster

It’s the classic teen sex comedy plot since time immemorial, but as hackneyed and derivative as it may sound, it works. Why? Because it’s also the absolute human truth, something every non-virgin on this planet knows. Sex is great … but it’s complicated.

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