UnHung Hero

I had the pleasure of seeing the world premiere of Unhung Hero at Austin's SXSW Film Festival. Unhung Hero provides a really humorous look at professional comedian Patrick Moote's struggle to deal with the angst of having a small penis. His neurosis and insecurity translates into a very humorous, entertaining and simultaneously provocative documentary. He raises many issues such as whether the proliferation of pornography has led to the exaggeration of expectations and increased our sexual insecurities. He takes on a humorous worldwide journey asking whether his penis is too small and what he should do about it. In the process he explores many bizarre techniques for increasing penis size. While the film is humorous, he uses a comedian's insight to explore humanity's obsession with the size of genitalia. In so doing, he literally probes many hard questions about our attitudes towards sexuality. Unfortunately, the film's subject might make it difficult for it to gain the mainstream audience that it deserves. Anyway, Unhung Hero is recommended to anyone who is willing to think about our sexual mores with an open mind and a sense of humor.

None of this is believable or amusing ... Whether the whole online thing happened or not I have no idea ... Or care ... It just ALL looks faked Apparently this guy has a small penis and his girlfriend finished with him ... How small is a small penis ? ... Don't know ... And you never see his to find out what he considers to be one I can tell him why his girlfriend finished with him ... It is blatantly obvious that he is a really annoying fake ... Its nothing to do with his penis And if you think the blonde at the end is seeing for anything else but exposure I'd think again ... In fact the whole thing seemed to be about him gaining exposure, though not of the groin region ... The guy just wants fame and this just rebounds on that little plan in a big way Awful ... Do the washing up instead ... Its more worthwhile

"UnHung Hero" charts a humiliated man's fact-finding journey as he consults porn stars, doctors and anthropologists to learn whether the size of one's manhood matters.

I must say the sexologist is highly entertaining, explaining why he does not let people urinate in his establishment. He seems very laid back, very knowledgeable, but still is basically the keeper of a brothel. Not sure how you get to be the person who runs a house where people sit around and play with themselves.

Seeing Jonah Falcon was cool, as he is a very strange guy. I love that the world's largest man is not remotely a good-looking fellow. Not grungy like Ron Jeremy, either, but just dorky and undesirable.

UnHung Hero (2013)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Mildly entertaining documentary about Patrick Moote, a man who gets on the jumbo screen at a sporting event to propose to his girlfriend but she rejects him. We learn that it was because of his small penis so Patrick goes around the world trying to make it bigger. UNHUNG HERO kept me mildly entertained as I watched it but I had a hard time viewing it as a documentary. For starters, there's never any proof that this girlfriend dumped him because of his penis size. I mean, perhaps she was just embarrassed at the time? Perhaps she just wasn't ready to settle down? Perhaps hearing from her on if she walked off because of his penis size would have helped things. Also, a lot of this just seems to be done for humor as Patrick is constantly talking about his small penis. We never really see it either so who knows what the truth is. With that said, there are some funny moments scattered throughout and especially when he goes overseas to see how those men handle having a small penis and see what they do to try and make it bigger. We get a few doctors and sex experts talking about sizes and the history of men worrying about it. Again, if you've got nothing better to do then this is something worth watching. However, it's certainly not a well-researched or detailed film.

I think this guy saw his way to fame and fortune and set out on a strange path right from the start. I don't believe that the proposal was real, I think it was set up to go wrong in order to get a viral video. I don't know if the idea for this documentary was planned right from the start or it came later.

Basically, Patrick comes across as completely insincere at all times, if he is an actor I don't think he is a great one, he looks like he's pretending in the proposal video and there is never a point in this film when I believe him or his 'struggle'.

Not a great film, I got bored very quickly and doesn't tell us anything new.