Swedish/American filmmaker Casper Andreas specializes in formulaic gay-lite comedies with cliched ridden plots and characters that usually rely on being easy on the eye as their main selling point. This latest one about two attractive cousins who work as phone repairmen in Brooklyn and stumble on a get-rich-quick scheme is about the same as his previous efforts such as Slutty Summer and Going Down in La-La Land. This time the ‘gay element’ comes in the form of henpecked Max, one of the cousins, who is the last person who knows that he is gay, and it takes Brazilian singing hunk Juahn Cabrer making his acting debut, to show him what he has been missing out.
Expect no surprises in this rags to riches to rags plot which is very light on the comedy as it seems to drag it out to make the whole thing seem so much longer than the 93 minutes it is listed at. Some of the supporting performances, such as from Miles Mussenden as Patrick the phone company boss, lift the piece, whilst sadly others like the directors own excruciating camp cameo, are literally painful to watch.
Flatbush would seem even luckier, if you actually passed on this one altogether.
