Trick: A Boytoy Movie Review

[TotallyOz]

Trick

Here we have another genre-busting gay movie that proves not all queer cinema has to be about gay bashing, AIDS or ridiculous camp drag stuff. Really, any genre of film can be turned into a gay movie if writers and directors realize that gay people are just people. That the plot of the film is a gay guy figuring out that gays are not as weird as he thinks just drives this point home.

Trick is, despite the title, simply a standard Hollywood romantic comedy where the plot is boy meets boy, boy loses boy, boy gets boy back. And instead of having the gay best friend of one of the characters providing quirky comedic lines, we get Tori Spelling providing quirky comedic lines.

The movie focuses on Gabriel who, despite being a writer of musical theater songs, isn't a cliché gay at all. In fact, he's so turned off by the clichés of gay life that he doesn't feel like he's really gay or belongs. Camp, drag queens, political activism, gay pride - none of that stuff does it for him. He's just a normal guy who likes sucking dick.

Because he doesn't feel any connection to the gay community at all, he doesn't even think about getting a boyfriend and instead just does random one-night stands whenever he's horny enough.

One night after a three-month dry spell, he hits a local gay bar. He's hit on by every stereotypical type of gay dude possible and leaves disgusted. But he's followed out by a hunky dude who is one of the go-go boys at the bar.

The go-go boy tries to pick him up and he figures, why not partially because he wants to find out if the boy's nickname, Beer Can, accurately reflects the size of his dick.

When he takes the go-go boy home, however, his fag hag (Spelling) is at his place printing out a bunch of her resumés, and she just keeps talking and talking and not getting the message that she should leave so the two of them can bone.

After she finally does go out the door, Gabriel's roommate turns up with his girlfriend (they share a studio apartment) and the roommate and his girlfriend start making out so erotically it totally turns off both Gabriel and the go-go boy.

So, they decide to see if they can use one of Gabriel's friends' places to fuck in. They track the dude down and just as he's about to give them the keys to his place, his ex-boyfriend turns up, they make up and Gabriel and Go-Go Boy are out of luck.

Next, they decide to hit a bar Go-Go Boy knows about where people can fuck in backrooms/dark corners. But this becomes a disaster too - first because there is a drag queen there whose persona is Tori Spelling's character on Beverly Hills 90210. Having a drag queen around who looks just like his fag hag turns Gabriel off a bit.

Even more of a turn-off, however, is the fact that he quickly figures out that Go-Go Boy has literally fucked every single dude hanging out in the bar.

This freaks Gabriel out so much that he just walks out of the bar without saying goodbye. He heads home, but Go-Go Boy follows him.

They then try to go back to his apartment, figuring that his roommate and his girlfriend may have stopped fucking by now. They have, but when they arrive the girlfriend is still there naked and it turns out she's some weird new-age sex counselor who tries to first give them weird relationship advice and then tries to get Go-Go Boy interested in her.

Gabriel reaches his breaking point and screams, I just want to get laid! At which point Go-Go Boy is like, Hey, I really like you. This isn't just about sex to me. I want to get to know you. If I'm just a pretty boy to fuck, fuck off, and storms out.

Gabriel then runs after him and they decide to hit a diner. Of course, Fag Hag Spelling is there with about 10 of her friends all of whom run over and share the table with them.

He wants her and her friends to take off because he's desperate to tell Go-Go Boy that, yeah, he does have feelings for him, but can't bring himself to say that for the first time in front of all of this comic relief (including Spelling screaming, I really like fish, maybe I'm a lesbian!).

Finally the other characters leave and Gabriel and Go-Go Boy finally have some real alone time. They talk and both admit that they are totally into each other.

They have their first kiss and it's electric. They realize they love each other and that while they both need to go home and crash, they will meet again the next night and have a real date, because they have the love bug.

That's when the movie ends as it would with any romantic comedy. Gabriel, of course, realizes that he doesn't hate gay people really, just the shallow gay people he'd been hanging out with before.

Now that he knows and is in love with a normal gay guy, he accepts himself for what he is, and it's clear there is going to be long-term romance with Beer Can in his future.

The only unanswered question at the end of the film is, if you are dating a dude named Beer Can, exactly how much lube are you going to need to buy?

I'm guessing he probably headed over to Wal-Mart and bought a family pack.

Anyway, if you like romantic comedies but are tired of them always being about Meg Ryan falling for Tom Boring As All Hell Hanks, then Trick is for you.

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[RA1]

When do you get to the part about the "normal gay guy"?

Best regards,

RA1

[TotallyOz]

In his mind a "normal gay guy" is much different than what I would think it would be. I accept all kinds of things as normal from fem to bear to twink divine. But, before I came out, I would totally avoid anyone who I thought acted gay. I was so afraid of being labeled as one of the "gays." I look back and am ashamed but it was a part of who I am.

I think for him a "normal gay guy" is someone who is not campy or overly flamboyant. For me, those are the ones that I prefer to hang out with.

[msclelovr]

I have a DVD of this film. It is utterly charming. And apart from being generally amusing, the go-go boy has a terrific physique which you do get to see; the actor is JP Pitoc if my memory is correct.

[BiBottomBoy]

He is insanely cute. I really hope that the "Beer Can" name i accurate.

[Guest DJ69Cruiser]

A GREAT movie. This was the first gay comedy movie I purchased ... and I still have it in my collection.

I generally do not go for comedies, but this one goes beyond that general description because it is enteraining and enjoyable.

And yes, Pictock comes off in the movie as being very hot ... without trying to be so.

The only other gay comedy movie I really like - and I have watched it many times - is Slutty Summer.

I think Casper Andreas has made some very remarkable and greatly entertaining movies - mostly comedy or ones which are "light-hearted". There was however, one huge exception: Between Love and Goodbye.

DJ