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Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds

Starring Jim Verraros, Emily Brooke Hands, Rebekah Kochan, Marco Dapper, and Brett Chukerman

MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Ariztical Entertainment Inc.
Comedy  |  Gay/Lesbian
85 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters November 24, 2006

How far would you go to get the person of your dreams? In "Eating Out," Kyle (Verraros) convinced his straight roommate to pretend to be gay to get the girl. Now, with the help of Gwen (Hands) and Tiffani (Kochan), Kyle pretends to be heterosexual to land Troy (Marco Dapper), the new guy -- and nude model -- in town, only to find himself joining the campus ex-gay support group and nabbing a girlfriend! Kyles ex boyfriend, Marc (Chukerman), is horrified at the plan and decides to pursue the confused Troy with his own tactic -- being his out gay self. Who will win him first? In the boy eat boy, boy eat girl world of Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds (the first American gay sequel ever), stakes get raised, sexual boundaries are obliterated, and the answer is never what you might expect!

WRITTEN BY
Phillip J. Bartell
Q. Allan Brocka (also characters)

DIRECTED BY
Phillip J. Bartell

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

39 / 100

Critic Reviews

70 Chicago Reader
This video sequel to the gay comedy "Eating Out" (2004) is funnier, lighter, and faster paced.
70 Film Threat
The ultimate rarity: a sequel that is miles ahead of its predecessor in every imaginable department.
50 Variety
Sequel is no more than a cheapo campy goof, but this edition does contain a higher quota of laugh lines and an unsubtle message that efforts to make gay youth "go straight" is destined to fail.
50 Village Voice Rob Nelson
As before, the fun is somewhat capped by absurdly stilted acting and daytime-soap-quality DV, but the nonstop sub-Araki glibbage is plenty peppy and so is Rebekah Kochan's ding-a-ling Tiffani, a dead ringer for 90210's Tori Spelling.
50 Boston Globe
This sequel, with the return of the first movie's insatiably slutty Los Angeles collegians, is as vulgar as its predecessor and just as almost-smart.
40 Los Angeles Times
Eating Out 2 is sweet-natured, but like the first edition, lame and way too talky.
30 The New York Times
A Rubik’s Cube of shifting sexual orientation and elaborate sex fantasies, “Sloppy Seconds” gathers all the accouterments of soft pornography -- cheesy music, low-rent acting and attractively framed genitals -- into a plot of stunning imbecility.
25 San Francisco Chronicle G. Allen Johnson
A rollicking comedy for the gay niche that rarely rises above the level of a high school skit, Phillip J. Bartell's sequel to 2004's "Eating Out" is loaded with silliness and eye candy.
25 Chicago Tribune
A soft-core sex comedy that keeps throwing out comic variations on the idea of the line between gay and straight sexuality.

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