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Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, The
Regent Releasing

Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, The reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 38 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
6.9 out of 10
based on 15 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for strong sexual content and language

Starring Daniel Letterle, Diego Serrano, Meredith Baxter, David Monahan, Dean Shelton, Shanola Hampton, Scott Atkinson, and Rebecca Lowman

Based on the hit underground comic strip, this hilarious, gay romantic comedy follows the story of Ethan Green, an adorable 26 year-old professional "assistant" looking for love in all the wrong places. (Regent Releasing)


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Gay/Lesbian  |  Romance  
WRITTEN BY: David Vernon  
DIRECTED BY: George Bamber  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: October 10, 2006 
Theatrical: June 16, 2006 
RUNNING TIME: 88 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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80
Chicago Reader Albert Williams
Directed by George Bamber from a witty screenplay by David Vernon, it veers between screwball farce and feel-good sitcom.
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70
Variety John Anderson
It's a crackpot of a soap opera, ornamented by a great deal of sexual humor, sexual innuendo and sex. Lead Daniel Letterle is a charmingly boyish actor, and the other featured players -- particularly veteran actress Meredith Baxter as Ethan's gay-wedding-planner mother -- are excellent.
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63
TV Guide Ken Fox
It's none too deep and a tad cartoonish, but also fast-paced, filled with quotable one-liners and often very funny.
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60
Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen
Inoffensive even as it makes some fairly explicit sex jokes, "Ethan Green" may not exactly be fabulous, but it is pleasantly diverting.
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50
New York Post Lou Lumenick
A genially silly gay date movie.
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50
The New York Times Laura Kern
More often than not, these tactics fall flat, and the mostly unfunny - and unfabulous - trifle never rises above sitcom level.
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50
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
The film's tone veers from misjudged sincerity to shrill sketch comedy of the broadest stripe.
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40
Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman
There's just not enough real heart to go along with the cutesiness.
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38
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
The strip is now a cartoonish sitcom pretending to be a romantic comedy about a drama queen and his adventures in lust. The movie might have gotten away with it, were it interested in romance or comedy.
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38
Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Tiresome romantic comedy that reinforces every imaginable gay stereotype.
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30
Washington Post Desson Thomson
This adaptation of the underground comic strip is mostly unfabulous.
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30
LA Weekly Ernest Hardy
It's a dud. To be fair, the source material (to which the film is unfortunately faithful) is itself a wan assemblage of creaky one-liners, overly familiar gay ghetto types and sitcom-inspired shenanigans.
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25
San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
With words streaming out of their mouths instead of into bubbles, Ethan and his gang of past, present and future lovers sound laughingly unbelievable. They're on the road to inanity.
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25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White
Mostly unfabulous.
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10
Village Voice Jorge Morales
Unfabulous, unfunny, and unwatchable.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 6.9 (out of 10) based on 10 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Dean S. gave it a0:
An awful waste of time. worse movie I have ever seen.

Travis H. gave it a9:
It wasn't supposed to be a ground breaking movie by any means. It was light and roll on the floor funny. One of the best comedic gay movies I have ever seen.

Danny Q. gave it a9:
I think critics seem to be looking for far too much depth in this film and that's not what the film is about. It's like an old screball comedy. It's light and delightful and an enjoyable way to spend an hour and a half. The audience I saw it with laughed consistently. And that's what matters.

Jim G. gave it an8:
Forget Brokeback Mountain, here is a slice of gay life in which every (white?) gay man should find some personal truth and much humor. While some of the supporting roles are taken to an extreme or heavy on camp, the two main characters have more than one dimension and are well played. Daniel Letterle and David Monahan do a fine job as the earnest humans named Ethan and Leo. The movie is very funny in its broad themes, but also chock full of brief (inside?) jokes that delighted the audience I was in (my favorite being a brief detour to the Moen catalog). Only two complaints: (1) the Hat Sisters: no self-respecting queen would be caught dead in those outfits (2) Ramon De Ocampo as Juarez does for the image of gay Latin men what Hattie McDaniel's roles did for African-American women. It's a shame that his role wasn't written as intelligently and truthfully as that of Punch, the 19 year-old self-declared God. (Oh, and, (3), those German accents were horrific.)

Jules K. gave it a10:
Fun, funny, frothy. And it happens to be gay! Whudeva. A date movie if there ever were one.

Russell M. gave it a10:
Just a fun movie. Doesn't try to make any great statements but offers one laugh after another. What more can you ask from a comedy?

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