Description: The streets and bars of San Francisco’s famous Castro district comes alive in the colorful, fast-paced, affectionate and often funny insider’s look at life and love among a diverse group of out and proud gay men. This group of attractive twenty-somethings, goes through the trials and tribulations of getting lucky and finding love in the world’s gay mecca. A light, fun, eye-candy romp.
Gay Train Wreck Add this to the pile of navel-gazing "gay circle of friends" romantic comedies---it's astounding how many of these get made, as though the same people who make them forget that six or seven of them play the Gay film festivals every year, all following the same template and none much better than the others. The idea of trying to sit through all of "Gypsy Boys" is far funnier than anything actually in the movie---it's hard to decide whether to laugh or die of embarrassment at the stilted dialogue, lame attempts at "queeny" humor, dreadful acting, and the unsexiest love scenes ever captured on camera. Hopefully gay "filmmakers" will get over the mindset that throwing what they see as their lives onscreen ---which seems to consist mostly of a small group of friends pursuing the best looking muscle queens at the local bars/clubs---constitutes relevant cinema. An unfortunate effect of the small-pond mentality of gay cinema perhaps; a small core of mainstream gay audiences lap this stuff up but this sort of tired and unoriginal storytelling wouldn't pass muster for a second in the larger indie film scene. "Gypsy Boys" is a particulary wretched example of this sort of dumbed-down pandering to mainstream gay audiences; but its greatest sin is that even as a stereotypical gay comedy it's too lame to deliver the goods. You'd do better to watch "Kiss Me Guido" again if that's the kind of thing you're looking for.
BORING i'm not interested on the appearance of the actors, the plot was boring. it needs more life. don't waste your money and end up regreting the purchase like i did. this movies doesbn't even deserve the one star i gave but this system won't let me post this review without a rating
Not a "Queer as Folk" rip-off (This came first!) When I saw this movie for the first time, it was at the 2000 (?) Chicago Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, where it was premiering for the first time, and I liked it quite a bit.
Yes, just about every character is a catty bed-hopper who spends entirely too much time on looking good and finding the exactly right thing to say in any situation, but can anyone honestly tell me that those kind of people don't exist? Especially in the Castro?
A lot of people who have reviewed this film here have called this a "Queer as Folk" knock-off. That's not entirely true. ABout the only thing both shows have in common are the aforementioned catty wit-queens mentioned above. The difference between this and "QAF" is that while both present the same stereotypes, "QAF"--at least in my mind--is even more offensive because it's made by straights who are pandering to what they think the gay community wants to see. It's the equivalent of the "Mantan" concept in Spike Lee's "Bamboozled."
Somehow, I find it less offensive coming from a gay filmmaker--I'm not sure why, but I do.
I would recommend this movie.
Not bad, Not Great Very middle of the road gay flick. Cute, kinda funny, but not exactly the expectation nor would I suggest it as a top of the wish list item. But, as a gift it was great and I liked it enough I expect to watch it again.
Wish I could give it half a star. The Gypsy Boys need to get back in the wagon and go back to wherever they came from.
Unrealistic, stupid, poorly acted, cheaply filmed, God where do I end?
Only the cute Cuban boy (Manny?) pulled off a credible performance; and due to this they had him kiss two of the most unattractive men in the American film industry's history! Not to sound superficial, but the men that he was attracted to (the Nazi and the Grandpa) were so unrealistically under his league that you cringe when watching (literally!)
The cheap dream sequences, the really bad jokes, I wish I did not buy this DVD and instead spent the money on envelopes and stamps to write hate-mail to the cast.
Please save your money! No disrespect to Amazon, but don't spend your money on this, they have MANY fantastic films you can buy: go look for them!
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