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Sunday, July 09, 2006


Has the summer heat put you in a mindless daze? Here's the perfect DVD for brain-dead viewing:

Slutty Summer
(TLA Releasing, $24.95)

With a lascivious title like Slutty Summer, you can’t blame a guy for getting his hopes up for lots of hot and nasty action. The opening scene lives up to this promise, showing two naked men sixty-nining on an apartment floor. Nothing else in the movie reaches this level of naughtiness, though there is a certifiably skanky seduction scene in a men’s rest room.
The film’s failure to live up to its title would be forgivable if the script weren’t so amateurish, and the jokes were actually funny. As screenwriter, director and star, the wooden Casper Andreas is not so much a triple threat as a triple dud. He stumbles on many of his lines, which is pretty mind-boggling when you consider that he wrote them himself. And by trying to make a silly sex farce a platform for serious discussions about men and fidelity, he succeeds only in giving the film a wildly uneven tone.
Andreas plays Marcus, a New York City writer who discovers that his long-term boyfriend has cheated on him. At his new restaurant job he meets up with several gay co-workers, including the promiscuous überfag Luke and a hot model named Tyler.
Tyler puts the moves on Marcus, and Marcus is most definitely tempted. But is it too soon for him to move on to a new relationship? And is Tyler even capable of monogamy? As Marcus grapples with his summer romance quandary, his nutty co-workers try their own luck at love.

If you’re in the mood for mindless entertainment or you just want to look at good looking men for 80 minutes, you could do a lot worse than Slutty Summer. Just remember to keep your expectations very low.
The DVD boasts several features that are better than the film itself. The piece de resistance is "Who's a Slut?", a hilarious short documentary in which cast member Jesse Archer takes to the streets and interviews random people about their sexual proclivities.

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