Adam and Steve is an over the top gay indie film based around two gay guys who quickly develop a loving relationship despite their own insecurities. It is not until later, they find out that they had a disastrous one night stand 17 years earlier and freak out. but it is their best friends bring them together in the end.
Some films are meant to be bad and some are pretty good at it. Adam and Steve is one that is intending to be bad but fun and over the top which it does to some extent. There are lots of funny one liners which depict the comical aspects of your stereotypical gay lifestyle. Parts of it were hysterical and captures what it is like being a gay guy in a big city finding love.
However, the film sometimes does not know when to draw the line. One of the comedy moments was about Adam always being attacked or insulted whenever he shows affection in public. It is funny the first three or four times but after the twelfth it is just repetitive. I also did not find the whole stand up piece of Rhonda (Parker Posey) about her being fat particularly funny.
I was particularly excited when I heard Kristen Schaal was in it as she is a very underrated comedian. Unfortunately, the scene of Adam's Jewish family was too slapstick for me and just not funny.
Despite this, Parker, along with Chris Kattan (Michael), the two straight best friends, slightly made this film ahead of the main gay characters. Parker is brilliant as the fag hag and Kattan as the envious heterosexual who wants to live a gay man's lifestyle but with women.
It is a quite funny way to spend 90 minutes of your time watching and unbelievably Courtney Love is in the soundtrack! It covers the every day gay issues of addiction, commitment and discrimination in a fun and over the top way.
2.5/5 - Fun despite its flaws
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