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The Wishmakers

This film is a low budget attempt to deal with a theme that has certainly been done to death both in mainstream and gay themed movies. Young hopefuls arrive in LA with a desire to break into the big time. The film has absolutely no plot at all. It just readers around the audience watching lives on these three gay young men as it unfold on screen before us.

An aspiring dancer named Ben shows up in Los Angeles and moves in with his two best friends Jason and Corey, the three of them looking to find love in the city of dreams while also seeking fulfillment in their careers. He is just coming out and desperate to find love. He meets fellow dancer Craig, with whom he starts practicing a musical piece. Little does Ben know that Craig has an outlook that's more in step with his than he realizes. Jason delivers humorless stand-up comedy routines while pursuing an industry bigwig in the hopes of making it in show business. H indulges in meaningless sex. Things change when he meets a big shot producer who could help him advance his career bu he blows that up as well. Finally we have Corey who airs his fear of sex by donning garish outfits and working as assistant to a former star, pretending to be a girl (out confused character of the film in my opinion). The three just navigate through the randomness of West Hollywood, moving from man to man, but still hoping to find love.

The so called humor of the film is situational and quite honestly, it is very awkward. There is no sense of background to either the characters or their relationship, there is little connection between scenes, everything is stereotyped to its greatest extent and most of the dialogue makes no sense. The trio talk to each other in a lot of scenes and clearly neither has any depth of life understanding to be giving each other any advice on career, life or love. The dance routine between Jason and Corey are boring. The humor of Corey dressed up as woman in garish outfits every single time working for an over the top fading celebrity are supposed to invoke laughter but they just fall flat and you can't help but fast forward those cringe scenes. The actors look ok but are just bad. Clearly, a lack of coherent screenplay and awful direction is to helping anyone here. In short, it’s garbage, and has far too little eye candy exploitation to make up for it. Avoid. (2.5/10)

Comments

Miisu said…
Well, again you're expressing my thoughts. I watched this film a few years ago and had to admit the bitter truth to myself: I'm SOOOOOO cheap when fountains are included in the plot. Damn you, IMDB, if that make-a-wish-at-the-fountain hadn't been mentioned, I wouldn't.... dammit. Luckily I have seen many way better things afterwards, even way better crap things, that all I can remember is the stereotype/trope overload... and I'm still sorry for the fountain, why didn't the writers think it through, it's such a good material, all the superstition and thoughts that kind of wishes create. Double-dammit.
Golu said…
lol. you ar your fountains !!
Miisu said…
:D indeed - me and my fountains :D Being a daughter of Fontana di Trevi - must be genetic :D In this case the (unfairly uncredited :D ) fountain gets a 2 from me, everyone else will have to share "focus more and deliver better next time".

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