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We’ve been intermittently amused over the years by Eric Orner’s gay comic strip The Mostly Unfabulous…, which follows the romantic peregrinations of eternal lonely heart Ethan Green (though he has an amazing amount of sex for a lonely guy). We’ll also admit to finding Letterle charming in Camp as the chronically flirtatious straight boy at a theater camp. But Letterle is miscast as Ethan. In the strip, Ethan is cute but not gorgeous, and has a bit of ironic distance from his own neurotic habit of screwing up all of his relationships. Not so in this sometimes funny, sometimes grating comedy. Perfect twink Ethan whines and pouts and tumbles into bed with a succession of men, and never once flashes the distinctive knowing smirk that gives Orner’s strip a bit of zing. Letterle is just neurotic eye candy.
The plot is like a romantic merry-go-round: Ethan starts off with a former baseball player (Serrano), then breaks up with him on the brink of moving in together, only to fall into a fling with a self-confidently out 19-year-old (Shelton). Then there’s Ethan’s old flame (Monahan) who owns the house where Ethan still lives. And around and around they go, with just enough beefcake nude scenes and gay inside jokes to guarantee that audiences won’t get too restless. It’s not terrible, but it says a lot that the Hat Sisters (Brooks and Riehle) nearly steal the movie.—Hank Sartin
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