Pretty Good

hyped garbage

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

A gay 20-something and his commitment-minded TV-star boyfriend attend the wedding of a straight college friend, which brings up relationship issues and who's-attracted-to-who predicaments. In the lead, Alexis Arquette (who resembles Jerry Seinfeld) can't seem to get his character out of the doldrums; mopey most of the time, with his hands deep in his pockets, his eyes always seem to be fixed on the ground. Some of the supporting players are cute, Maddie Corman can always be counted on for some extra energy, and the modest film has a squirrelly edge (as when a straight couple makes out to the Partridge Family!). Overall, a bit undernourished, but not callow. The movie is lightly peppered with amusing throwaway lines and it doesn't tip-toe around the gay characters, which is a nice change for queer cinema. ** from ****

I've seen it 4 times in the last week (well, maybe I watched the last scene 8 times). The characters are really well defined, and even the details are perfect. Sometimes it seems to be a Mel Brooks' film or a kind of 1940's pictureIs this enough to say what I feel for it? Alexis Arquette is great, Christian Maelen... GREAT. The other actors are all lovable. But my favorite ones are Guillermo Diaz (Great in Stonewall)and Lauren Velez.I wouldn't change a line in the whole film.Have a look at it, maybe you'll see once, but you'll enjoy it, for sure!Thanks to all those people that made me have so nice time. Giacomo

The annual gay romantic comedy for 1997, "I Think I Do" has some very clever moments. The characters are a bit broadly drawn but are still believable, and the plot stretches credibility a bit but still manages to work.The best moment, however, happened offscreen. At one point, one character consoles another by saying, "You're trying to hard. If you just stop looking, the right guy will come along."To which someone in the audience yelled, "IT'S NOT TRUE!!!!!!!!!"

This is just so charming. It's funny and sprightly and very feel-good. After decades of providing anonymous musical vocals for Hollywood actors, Marni Nixon gets an engaging supporting role here as Aunt Alice. Somehow, that's just so right for this movie. I also especially liked Lauren Velez as Carol and Tuc Watkins as Sterling, but all the actors did a fine job (some of them aren't bad looking either).What really strikes a chord with me, though, is its wish-fulfillment. This film is the ultimate revenge fantasy of anyone who's ever seen - or been - a gay man cruelly disdained by some gorgeous heterosexual object of desire. It revels in poor repentant Brendan's predicament...but it does it in the sweetest, most adoring way possible.I saw this at our local art academy, where it was apparently brought back by popular demand. The audience was laughing and hooting throughout more than for any other movie I've seen. I was as gleeful as the rest of them.