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The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
Metascore
38 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 15
  3. Negative: 7 out of 15
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  1. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Albert Williams
    80
    Directed by George Bamber from a witty screenplay by David Vernon, it veers between screwball farce and feel-good sitcom.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    70
    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.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    63
    It's none too deep and a tad cartoonish, but also fast-paced, filled with quotable one-liners and often very funny.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    60
    Inoffensive even as it makes some fairly explicit sex jokes, "Ethan Green" may not exactly be fabulous, but it is pleasantly diverting.
  5. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    50
    The film's tone veers from misjudged sincerity to shrill sketch comedy of the broadest stripe.
  6. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    50
    A genially silly gay date movie.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Laura Kern
    50
    More often than not, these tactics fall flat, and the mostly unfunny - and unfabulous - trifle never rises above sitcom level.
  8. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marrit Ingman
    40
    There's just not enough real heart to go along with the cutesiness.
  9. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Connie Ogle
    38
    Tiresome romantic comedy that reinforces every imaginable gay stereotype.
  10. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    38
    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.
  11. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    30
    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.
  12. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    30
    This adaptation of the underground comic strip is mostly unfabulous.
  13. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ruthe Stein
    25
    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.
  14. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Bill White
    25
    Mostly unfabulous.
  15. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jorge Morales
    10
    Unfabulous, unfunny, and unwatchable.
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6.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. DeanS.
    0
    An awful waste of time. worse movie I have ever seen.
  2. DannyQ.
    9
    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.… Full Review »
  3. JimG.
    8
    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.)… Full Review »
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