He's Such a Girl

He's Such a Girl (2009) was directed by Sean Carr. It's a modest little independent film that doesn't aim very high and goes about as high as it aims.

The basic premise is that Whitney (Bryan Fisher) is a really great guy who is considered too gentle, too friendly, and too genuine to be straight. Actually, he's straight, and he's madly in love with his girlfriend Taylor (Tiffany Dupont). Whitney has a best friend, Aldo (Will Stiles), who is the worst best friend a nice guy ever had.

Whitney is ready to marry Taylor, but Taylor keeps telling him to wait. To wait. To wait. Taylor has a secret (Can you guess what it is?) and Aldo knows the secret. He won't tell, if . . .

OK--Whitney is pushing, Aldo is scheming, and Taylor is telling Whitney to wait just a little bit longer. I said to myself, "If Taylor says 'Please, just give me time' once more, I'm going for coffee." The coffee was excellent, and the cookie wasn't bad either.

We saw this film at the Little Theatre as part of the first-class ImageOut: Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Insofar as it works at all, it will work well on DVD.

I sat down to watch "He's Such a Girl" thinking that it was going to be another run-of-the-mill romantic comedy. However, this was not really in that particular alley. So was that good or bad? Well, I suppose it was good, in the sense that it differed from what I had expected.

However, the movie just failed to really entertain me in a proper way. Director Sean Carr set out to accomplish something that I really didn't fully appreciate, or perhaps I was just not in the target audience. Regardless, then I must admit that I found the movie to be less then mediocre, and there were very little to elevate the movie for me.

What did work out in favor of "He's Such a Girl", was some of the acting. However, keep in mind that you are not in for something awe inspiring or particularly memorable. There are some talents that manage to keep the movie somewhat afloat, despite having very little to work with.

There weren't any moments of laughter throughout the course of this movie, and that was something that really pulled the enjoyment towards a negative direction.

All in all, then "He's Such a Girl" manages to land a mere four out of ten stars from me.