There are quick cameo appearances, including one in which Kristin Chenoweth appears at a fundraiser wearing a revolving model of the Stonewall Inn on her head. The film's many small comic touches, almost asides, are just as important as the romance. The use of that song perfectly captures the film's tone, ironically undercutting the episode playing out, yet pointing toward the genuine romantic emotions the men are beginning to feel. In a gleeful sex scene (discreetly shot) the two push and shove and slap each other silly while Nat King Cole's When I Fall in Love plays on the soundtrack. Nonetheless, they stroll around New York as if they were in When Harry Met Sally, a film Bobby sarcastically evokes in a later conversation. When Bobby later complains, "Gay relationships today are like a clown car," filled with too many people, it is a typical Eichner line, pointing out an issue Austen's Elizabeth and Darcy never had to face.īobby wonders if Aaron likes him, while Aaron keeps disappearing. On the night he and Bobby meet, Aaron is planning a sexual encounter with another man and his husband. While Bobby is a mass of defensiveness and insecurities, Aaron is hunky and bored with his job as an estate lawyer. Stoller, whose comic hits include The Neighbours and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, brings that breezy, easy-to-like style to Bros.
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Bobby is an echo of Eichner's on-screen persona, going back to the brash, faux-angry Billy on the Street TV show days when he screamed and accosted strangers with ludicrous pop culture questions. Eichner wrote the screenplay with the film's director, Nicholas Stoller, but the comedy works because of Eichner's distinct comic voice. He falls for an equally detached lawyer, Aaron (Luke Macfarlane), setting the stage for the obstacle course ahead. The Whale: 'Brendan Fraser deserves an Oscar'Įichner's character, Bobby, is a middle-aged podcaster who has no expectations of romance or illusions about love.
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The Woman King is 'an action-filled epic' The very funny Bros accomplishes that by leaning fully into meta territory, and centering on the acerbic wit of its star and co-writer, Billy Eichner. The trick is to self-consciously toy with the genre while heading toward that predictable but satisfying happy ending. It is a trope of contemporary romcoms that they call attention to the fact that they're romcoms, from Bridget Jones falling for the perfectly named Mr Darcy to the recent gay romance Fire Island, with its voiceover nod to Pride and Prejudice.
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