9 Dead Gay Guys

2002 subversive comedy

Rating: 10/20

Plot: Two buddies decide to chase after the riches of a homosexual Orthodox Jew, money rumored to be hidden under his gigantic mattress and used to pay his well-endowed lovers. A bunch of gay guys die along the way. Nine of them actually.

This wasn't very politically correct. It wasn't really all that funny either, but I am shocked out of my gourd! Cheap gags, a frenetic style borrowed from Trainspotting, in-your-face off-the-wall characters. It's a wild ride, but instead of being fun or fresh, it just felt like the kind of amusement park ride where you're jerked around for a long time and then you wonder why you stood in line for that in the first place. 9 Dead Gay Guys is cheeky. And I'm not just talking about the dwarf's bare buttocks that almost made this movie worth the effort. No, I use that word in that way that reminds us why nobody really likes the English or their comedies.