This movie is absolutely hilarious. Do not take it to seriously. Very well done (considering the budjet). A lot of laughs, while still bringing to the surface of social norms and breaking them!
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what has a black gay 'has-been' actor to do?
Added 3/3/2005
I giggled with glee all throughout the almost 3 hours! Not a dull moment on this DVD! The Actor/Director/Writer is black and on the wrong side of 30 probably even forty-ish! So what do you do - Well write your own ticket! And boy did he let it RIP! A show that Redefines the family unit. It's also meant to show us that it's stupid to ASSUME (people's sexuality)! And to LIGHTEN up it's just SEX! ONe of the casting coup was the Asian lesbian who happens to be on children's television as one of the TELETUBBIES! GET THIS DVD!
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A great story.
This DVD moves along at a very fast pace and it gathers you up and carries you along with it.
The acting is pretty good, the story is interesting in a soapy kind of way, the gags are good if you like English humour (and who doesn't) and the whole thing comes together as a great experience.
Oh! If you are American, you probably won't understand a word they are talking about. Thick "East Ender" accents prevail. At the speed it's delivered you'll spend a lot of time working out what was just said, and while you ponder this, you'll miss the next gem. But this production could be watched a couple of times without becoming boring and I am sure you will pick up more with each viewing. A bit like watching Cirque Du Soleil really.....
Funny, sad and bittersweet. There's a bit of everything. I loved it!
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Best show ever
Added 12/9/2004
If you have heard about this show or just looking at it now Get it this show is so funny that I have seen the dvd 7 times and it never gets old
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Made For TV High Speed Soap
Added 8/9/2004
This is NOT a movie. This is a six part TV series compressed into a 2 1/2 hour non-stop show. It does have a very "made for TV" feel about it complete with action breaks where you'd expect commercials to be filled in. It's a soap which flits back and forth at high speed between about a dozen characters.
There is not so much a plot as a cabaret of witty dialogue, wild fashion and cute bods (warning - some of the dialogue will be hard to catch if you're not british). Imagine all the crazy outfits of Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City... turn that up to full volume then add fluorescent technicolor... that's what everyone is wearing. Combined with perfect gay boy sculpted flesh and it's crazy eye candy.
The show ultimately goes nowhere... some of the relationship problems introduced at the beginning of the series get resolved in predictable fashion. But it's got as much depth as a drunken drama queen on an all night clubbing spree. Pretty and mindless fun. Pretty mindless fun.
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ambisextrous comic camp with substance of the highest order
Added 7/2/2002
I think the reason I loved this series so much was the fact that it was just so frenetic and unbelievable. It's believable in the sense that the characters have real emotions and act with great humanity and humour, but can I really be expected to believe that they all have such fabulous wardrobes and hair? The series centres around Kwame and his kidult, queen, dad, Max.
Kwame wants his two dads to get back together but Jordan (the ex) is seeing another guy. Meanwhile, Dean, Kwame's best friend is in love with Max and stuck in the middle of a destructive, abusive family life. Max's sister Cindy is enjoying her first weekend alone with her partner Doris in their eight years of parenting and can't stand the sudden silence. The guy who works at the skate park, owned by Max, is an immature, fun-loving punk man who can't commit to his 18 year old boyfriend Bambi (also friends with Kwame and Dean).
Then there are Gerry, Tal, Lola, her dad, Kwame's girlfriend Asher, her best friend Jaye, and others. If that's not enough characters to make your head spin, you must be a god. The series never settles down and is fast paced until the fnal, climactic episode of the six part mini-series. Every moment is packed with witty dialogue and fabulous hairstyles. It's funny, it's political and best of all, unlike most queer TV shows, IT'S NOT PREACHY!
Of note, also, is the music. Composed for the series, it fits seamlessly into the action and the characters even burst into song every once in a while. The credits are different for each episode and highlight major themes to come. It's like getting a little taste of the batter before the cake's been cooked. And it is good.
2 out of 2 people found this helpful.
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ambisextrous comic camp with substance of the highest order
Added 7/2/2002
I think the reason I loved this series so much was the fact that it was just so frenetic and unbelievable. It's believable in the sense that the characters have real emotions and act with great humanity and humour, but can I really be expected to believe that they all have such fabulous wardrobes and hair? The series centres around Kwame and his kidult, queen, dad, Max. Kwame wants his two dads to get back together but Jordan (the ex) is seeing another guy. Meanwhile, Dean, Kwame's best friend is in love with Max and stuck in the middle of a destructive, abusive family life. Max's sister Cindy is enjoying her first weekend alone with her partner Doris in their eight years of parenting and can't stand the sudden silence. The guy who works at the skate park, owned by Max, is an immature, fun-loving punk man who can't commit to his 18 year old boyfriend Bambi (also friends with Kwame and Dean).
Then there are Gerry, Tal, Lola, her dad, Kwame's girlfriend Asher, her best friend Jaye, and others. If that's not enough characters to make your head spin, you must be a god. The series never settles down and is fast paced until the fnal, climactic episode of the six part mini-series. Every moment is packed with witty dialogue and fabulous hairstyles. It's funny, it's political and best of all, unlike most queer TV shows, IT'S NOT PREACHY!
Of note, also, is the music. Composed for the series, it fits seamlessly into the action and the characters even burst into song every once in a while. The credits are different for each episode and highlight major themes to come. It's like getting a little taste of the batter before the cake's been cooked. And it is good.
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Sex - New Millennium Style
Added 6/29/2002
From Britian's Channel 4, who gave us the groundbreaking "Queer As Folk," comes an exhilarating six-part series about the lives and loves of a group of multiracial, pansexual friends, lovers and relatives in London's trendy Notting Hill."Metrosexuality is blazing it's own trail"-Fluid Magazine
"genuinely groundbreaking...genuinly refreshing"-Scotland on Sunday
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