Gaydar

A man wonders if his hunky co-worker is gay. At a yard sale he finds a ray gun called "Gaydar". You point it at a person, pull the trigger and it tells you how gay they are. He tries it out, it works and he sets out to find out if his coworker is gay like him...

Promising idea ruined by an unfunny script (after a promising beginning) and terrible acting. The entire cast overacts and basically SCREAM their lines at each other constantly. It gets annoying and really embarassing after a while. The saving grace is that's it is short, there's a scene stealing cat (love her fall out of the kitty bed) and Charles Nelson Reilly is hysterical in his brief bit. But none of this saves the movie. I can't recommend this at all.

With great cameos of out actors JM J. Bullock and Charles Nelson Reilly, this comedy has great pacing and hits all the right punchlines at the right time. The basic plot is a gay man finds a device that will reveal if someone is gay or straight. He uses it on several people and then gets the idea to pursue his secret crush to find out if he's gay or straight. The only problem I have with the film is that the gaydar gun has a 50% reading, but nowhere during the film did anyone register as anything other than 100% straight or 100% gay. There could've been one bisexual cameo in the film. The big surprise in the film was the casting of Bryan Dattilo of "Days of Our Lives", who played the sex object of the film.

I had the pleasure of viewing this film at the "Out on Film" festival in Atlanta and laughed till I had tears running down my face!! It is a smart and campy hetero/homo party fest!!!! It is silly campy fun with smart sophisticated humor. What a perfect combination!!! Take a "Carol Burnett Sketch" - mix it with a "Saturday Night Live" Sketch - sprinkle in some "Will and Grace" and a dash of a Laurel and Hardy short and then add some meat and you've got the "Gaydar Souffle". The script is a delight - the cast is sprinkled with campy fun actors and the whole package is 20 minutes well spent.

I saw Gaydar at a film festival and I loved it--in spite of the fact I only heard about half of it because everyone was laughing so dang hard. This movie was just plain funny. The concept is funny. The execution is funny. The cast is funny. And I swear to god, even the prop is funny. They were selling DVDs and I actually bought one. I bought the DVD to a 20 minute film--and I'm happy to report that I have no buyers remorse. I've already played it about 5 times for friends. If you're in the mood to analyze and look for profound meaning--go watch "E! True Hollywood Stories". But if your skeleton contains even one tiny funny bone, well then I most definitely recommend checking out Gaydar. By the way, LOVE the theme song!

Two office buddies, one male, one female speculate about the sexual orientation of the hunky office boy. When the man finds a "Gaydar" gun at a local yard sale he has an opportunity to find out.

Since this is a short, one doesn't expect an intricate plot but this is one of those shorts that doesn't seem short enough. At 20 minutes this film has a few good parts but goes on about 10 minutes too long.