Adam & Steve (2005)
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Movie Reviews of Adam & Steve (2005)
Movie Review: So funny!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is such a great movie. Excellent plot line that comes together so well. If your in a bad mood, questioning love? Pop this in and you will laugh your way to being a believer...Movie Review: Cute and Funny!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought Adam and Steve was a great romantic comedy. I wasn't disappointed at all throughout the movie. The ending was my favorite. I'm a sucker for a happy ending.Movie Review: Adam & Steve
Summary: 5 Stars
Not your average love story, it still follows the formula boy meets boy, boy loses boy, boy gets boy back. Fun flick, glad I got it.Movie Review: Funny and more
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a great film; it made me laugh and it made me somber...Movie Review: "Maybe I'm tired of one hot sexual encounter after another"
Summary: 4 Stars
Adam and Steve is so uneven and thematically all over the place, and at times it ranges from down-right funny to sometimes cringe inducing, but the film, as a whole, is imbued with an honesty and it really works, mainly because of the charisma and chemistry of the two male leads, but also because it's a film about two gay guys who fall in love that is actually acted by two out gay actors, rather than straight actors playing gay (think Heath and Jake in Brokeback Mountain).
The talented Craig Chester - who has been acting in queer-themed films for years and who wrote and directed this film - plays Adam, a former goth who falls heavenly in love with dancer-turned-doctor Steve (Malcolm Gets). But their attempt to start a meaningful relationship is mired by the fact that they met in 1987 under less desirable circumstances.
Adam and Steve actually met at a New York nightclub seventeen years ago when Adam and his plump friend Rhonda (Parker Posey) stumble into the club thinking it's Goth night, but are horrified to find a glittery dance troupe on stage. But once Adam and lead go-go boy Steve (Gets) lock eyes, it's lust at first sight. Steve gives Adam his first bump of coke, and several lines later they're back at Adam's place, tearing at each other's clothes and proclaiming their undying love.
Unfortunately, the coke is laced with baby laxatives and without warning the laxatives kick in. The evening comes to an abrupt and very messy end much to the mortification of the poor Adam who is left to clean up all the mess. Seventeen years later, Adam and Steve meet again, after Adam accidentally stabs his dog and rushes him to the hospital where Steve now works as a psychiatrist.
Neither remember each other, but Steve still carries the memory of that humiliating moment of incontinence deep within his psyche; while Adam, meanwhile, has matured into a neurotic gay man who has had to fight various addictions over the years. Will Adam and Steve remember that fateful night and will they be able to conquer their respective paranoia's and find true love?
Adam and Steve is cute and refreshing, especially when it doesn't take itself too seriously. Chester and Gets have a lovely chemistry together and it is helped along by the fact that their courtship appears natural and real. Their antics also distract nicely from the fact that the couple never actually say anything interesting to each another - there's a lot of endearing babbling, but then again, complexity and insightfulness has never been a prerequisite for heterosexual romances either.
Adam & Steve is indeed a jagged and bumpy ride, but what makes the film so special is that it's a relief to see a gay romance that isn't about abdominal-perfect 20-year-olds, and which features lovers played by two long out-of-the-closet actors. At least you can invest some sort of realism into all the kissing and the lovemaking.
The opening fifteen minutes of the film are the best, as Posey and Chester strut their stuff in the night club - him in full goth makeup and her in a fat suit, but as the film goes on and as the characters mature, the film begins to lose a sense of itself, mixing in elements of absurd surrealism and there's some sardonic observations about modern gay manners that don't quite work.
There's also a bizarre country and western dance number, featuring Jackie Beat that seems a bit out of place with the rest of the story. As a result some of the film works and some of it doesn't and the best parts are always the simplest, in which the stars - Chester, Gets, Posey and Chris Kattan playing Steve's jealous but straight roommate - let their personalities and their natural inclination for irreverence and cheekiness shine though. Mike Leonard August 06.