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Openly gay Irish television personality Graham Norton (Graham Norton Effect) plays Mr. Puckov, one of Andy's many quirky sex partners. Except for his terrible attempt at a German accent (a tired stereotype used to denote his character's fetish for kinky sex and leather), Norton remains his own bubbly, superficial, TV talk show self throughout the film.

Richard Hatch (Survivor) plays himself. In one short, unsavory sex scene, the portly Hatch sits on the edge of a bed, stark naked and looking very much like Jabba the Hut. As if being interviewed, he mumbles a few lines to the camera. His brief appearance onscreen is out of place and doesn't even seem to be part of the film.

In one of his best onscreen roles, Darryl Stephens (Noah's Arc) plays Angel, a drop-dead hunky homothug who helps the four lead boys get properly laid. Angel's down-low street smarts offer viewers a refreshing change from Stephens' usual, squeaky-clean Noah's Arc character.

John Epperson, aka Lypsinka (Wigstock), plays Andy's mom, Mrs. Wilson. But Epperson sleepwalks through the role, doing his standard, robotic, over-wound Joan Crawford-as-typical-1950s-housewife shtick.

Falcon porn star Matthew Rush, Ant (Celebrity Fit Club) and James Getzlaff (Boy Meets Boy) also make appearances as buff, gay beefcake bait for the four leads, but they blur into each other and are forgettable in their roles.

Scott Thompson (Kids in the Hall) plays Andy's father, Mr. Wilson. Always one to push buttons — and the boundaries of good taste — Thompson's notoriety as such is exploited in a vain attempt to liven up the dreary, off-color paces he's put through here. Mr. Wilson is a very Ward Cleaver kind of dad. He is also an ex-sailor who still enjoys having lots of cruisy gay sex. In one scene, Mr. Wilson and his son, Andy, both show up at a public restroom where Andy unknowingly services his own dad through a glory hole. How Oedipal.

Ashlie Atkinson (Rescue Me) is Muffler, the film's token bull dyke, a kind of Lea Delaria/John Belushi hybrid. If the foul gay male humor in this film isn't low-class enough, Muffler's gross-out lesbian pranks help bottom it out completely.

Regarding its cinematography, the overly bright Another Gay Movie has been digitally enhanced to make its color more, uh … vibrant. And how well it has succeeded! The result is like staring at a candy dish full of artificially colored gumdrops for two hours.

Every once in a while this harsh, Day-Glo rainbow of computer-enhanced tinting is interrupted by duller brownish hues — the result of in-your-face sight gags involving various crass bodily functions. Speaking of which (if you haven't guessed it by now), Another Gay Movie is basically an endless string of juvenile, garishly graphic gay sight gags involving flatulence, enemas, water sports, diarrhea, vomiting, vaginas, sex toys, glory holes, S&M, etc.

Another Gay Movie's website describes the film as a spoof on what it calls “the entire gay lifestyle.” But the film is solely about the basest of gay sexual urges. It neither represents, nor does it even spoof, “the entire gay lifestyle.”

Perhaps trying to have it both ways, Another Gay Movie also claims to spoof the teen film genre. (Perhaps its filmmakers consider gay sex a spoof of straight sex.) In fact, Another Gay Movie it is at one with all the genre's codes and conventions — and is equally as puerile.

Additionally, as if the movie were a gay American Graffiti, its online press kit proclaims, “Beneath the film's sex-romp exterior beats the true heart of the story — one of friendship and loss of innocence.” No offense, but there is nothing beating (at least not a heart) beneath the sex romp that is Another Gay Movie.

Incredibly, Another Gay Movie actually screened at the prestigious NewFest in New York on June 3 as one of its Centerpiece offerings. Director/writer Stevens and star Carbonaro attended the screening and appeared before the audience afterward to answer questions.

Stevens was asked if any of the four lead actors were really gay. He replied that he would not say. Carbonaro was asked if he would take his clothes off. He declined.

For more information, visit anothergaymovie.com.

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