A lighthearted look at gay love, and a far more honest and ultimately more touching exploration of the theme than what we got up on Brokeback Mountain.

Chester has a good ear for the snappy one-liner and this, plus his obviously hard-earned knowledge of the quirks in the gay mating game, put over his determinedly black romantic comedy.

It tries for cheap laughs, gets a couple of them, and whizzes the rest of them right down its pant leg.

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Chester could have used a major rewrite, or at least some serious editing.

Chester's script is a series of set pieces that all contain exaggerated characters for comic effect. There are numerous one-liners that hit the mark and the central relationship follows its ups and downs along the lines of a conventional romantic comedy w

Clever, liberatingly silly and sweet.

A clunky doofus, a comedy of meet-cutes and weak jokes.

I can't think of another film in which the embarrassment over a freak bowel movement impedes the course of love and commitment.