The Big Gay Musical

QC Cinema

Beyond Home Entertainment

The Big Gay Musical is a somewhat funny gay comedy which attempts to deal with such issues as religious intolerance, love and loss and the role of homosexuality in modern society. While some may take offense at the various musical numbers, which are loosely based on a queer adaptation of the Bible, to be honest they are fairly average and at times border on very B grade. To suggest it is somehow blasphemous comes across as more of a publicity line than something that can be taken very seriously. To be offended by this film you would have to have very thin skin, then I supposed some fundamentalists Christians are like that.

God creating Adam and Eve and then Adam and Steve is fun but is not enough to really carry a story. There are funny moments but on the whole it is very strained. Calling the Bible the “Breeder's Informational Book of Living Examples” and retelling its tales in a gay manner soon becomes fairly tedious.

The sub plot about religious attempts to turn gays straight is significant as is the spoof on televangelists but I think central themes are watered down by the rather silly musical aspects of the film.

This is a small film; it is fun and sometimes amusing. I don’t believe there is enough plot to really carry the film and in the end I felt it was too much camp and not enough substance.

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