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The plot repeatedly contrives to create forced comic sexual situations between gay men and straight women that are supposedly meant to be either funny or gross — or both — but which fall short of stimulating genuine laughs and sometimes become merely annoying.

And what politically correct, light-hearted gay sex comedy would be complete without including the prerequisite clownish, bumbling and inept anti-gay religious extremists? In Eating Out 2, the stereotype is the ex-gay “Coming-In” organization, complete with a “Homo-No-More” motto; self-hating, closet-case moderator, Jacob; and bitter, frigid, waspy matriarch, Linda.

Equally predictable is the comic comeuppance doled out to the gay-haters. Jason is outed in front of everyone – snared in the act of gay sex. His mother also receives her dose of punishment by being forced to witness said act.

Most of Eating Out 2 oddly plays to complete background silence, though every once in a while one hears some soft electronica, bland acoustic guitar pop or Barry White-type bedroom funk. All of it sounds completely canned, generic and innocuous — and quite a bit like what one hears in a porn film.

The whole thing should be hacked into small sections and strung out as a full season on TV. There is no real over-arching plot to it as a film; it plays more like a pilot episode for something other than itself — perhaps Kyle and Marc's Continuing Adventures in Trying To Get Laid. After seeing this film, one can see why sitcoms are only half an hour in length, and why they are blessedly interrupted at regular intervals by commercials.

Just as in famous, frivolous sitcoms such as The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Addams Family and Gilligan's Island, all the characters in Eating Out 2 act with that kind of ever-smiling naïveté and lack of inner seriousness that has been a mainstay of American television comedy acting for decades. They go through no character development; they are what they are.

In between the many vacuous, quickie sex romps that comprise 99 percent of Eating Out 2, there are moments where the characters sigh and briefly mope about their problems of not being able to have successful romantic relationships. Duh.

Eating Out 2 opens in limited release on November 21st. For more info visit the official website.

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