L'amour à tout prix

Love Or Whatever is completely unbelievable, unfunny and unromantic.

The main character is ugly and obnoxious, a whining, self-obsessed creep. We're supposed to believe that two West Hollywood gym bunnies are in love with him. We're supposed to believe that he's a licensed, practicing psychotherapist. We're supposed to laugh at a slobbering, leering, lecherous old woman and at a middle-aged woman who enjoys being attacked by male mountain lions.

We're supposed to be touched (and laugh too, maybe?) when WeHo Gym Bunny #2 (the pizza guy, the tall one with blue eyes, in case you have trouble telling them apart) wipes the snot dripping from the poor heartbroken hero's nose. We're supposed to be thrilled (and laugh too, maybe?) at the possibility that they may indeed be THE ONE for each other.

Only fans of the endless Eating Out series and similarly stupid gay comedies could like this movie. It was made by and for morons.

This film is an absolute hoot. It has some of the funniest bits ever done in film and it is a modern rendition of the classic screwball comedy of the Thirties like Bringing Up Baby with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn or My Girl Friday and other great classic comedies. The cast in this film is utterly inspired they are so perfect. The lead is like a puppy he is so adorable and the two hunks after him are so hot you almost want to cry. The sister is almost the best part of the film she is so incredibly lovable and funny. You just want to hug her forever. The photography, locations, music are all first rate making this film just plain fun, fun, fun.

Nothing great or meaningful here. Nobody is going to win any acting awards ...but this was enjoyable and watchable. No thinking required here; actually, the more you think about it, the less you will enjoy it.

Overall, a fun and enjoyable escape from reality.

TIP: MAKE SURE TO WATCH past the credits ...the movie continues for about another minute with an interesting clip.

Is probably ten or twenty million dollars. Meaning, better production values, better direction, script doctors, etc.

Rom coms are one tough genre for gay folk, evidently. There aren't many that succeed. This one doesn't either, but I can see how the script--which is pretty innocuous--almost makes it over the finish line. There are at least a couple of sharp lines in the movie, all delivered by the hardworking Jennifer Elise Cox.

I've come to the conclusion that it's a matter of money. There are plenty of straight rom coms that are much more watchable than this movie, but they aren't really any better. Throw a lot of money at a mediocre script and at least it's viewable. Is it really that simple?

This premise could have been sharp and original. But the writer and the director went for the obvious to make up for what the script lacked. And the result is overwrought and overacted and unnecessarily frantic. Too bad. It could have been good.

Imagine every badly written, amateurishly acted movie you might ever see. This is that, and less. Some pretty actors badly used. It wants to be a romp, but it's just so full of hackneyed, bad writing I had to force myself to finish because I'd paid for it already. The material is so trite it's hard to tell if the actor can act. Two dimensional characters in a shallow story. Bad premise, poorly executed. I have 193 more words to go before they will accept the review, so I'll just finish by saying this is a badly made, waste of time and talent. It tries to be clever, but fails in every scene and frame.