Oy Vey! This Movie Looks Terrible!
A few days ago, comedian Nick Kroll posted a funny Twitter:
I just saw a billboard for a new play called "oy vey, my son is gay!" what's it about?! What religion is everyone in this play?!
Haha. A classic case of "show, don't tell" done perfectly.
Well, apparently that play has been turned into a movie? And there is a trailer on-line (sent in via Videogum Tips Hall-of-Famer, Amil), and oh boy. While you might not think that it would be possible for a movie called Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay! to actually be worse than that name, which is literally the worst name, the movie looks so much worse than the title! You'll be saying "Hey, cool title," after you watch this trailer. My eyes are still kvetching! ("Kvetching" is Yiddish for "bleeding vomit.")
So the point of this movie is that Jewish parents can be just as depressingly unaccepting of their children as Christian parents? Got it. Was anyone else impressed with how convincing Big Pussy seems as a guy who doesn't like gay people? Acting! It is nice to see Jai Rodriguez getting some work again, though. I'm sure that things have been kind of rough ever since the Giving Straight Guys Unnecessary Advice On How To Look People In The Eyes With Confidence Or Whatever Industry collapsed.
Also, John Roberts already made Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!.
Better.
Posted by Gabe at 1:30 PM in Trailer
Tags: Bruce Villanch | Carmen Electra | Oy Vey, My Son Is Gay, | Vincent Pastore
Oy Gay-valt.
Score = 7
And the boyfriend isn't Jewish, they might as well just serve pork at the wedding
Score = 7
I heard about a Jem movie in development, and I thought that there was no way I would hear about a worse movie today. I was so very, very, very, very, very wrong.
Score = 6
Truly outrageous.
Score = 15
Truly truly truly outrageous
oooowhoa
Score = 4
Jem!
Score = 1
I want to play the Misfits. Yes, all of them.
Score = 2
The part of every trailer that I look forward to most is when a character speaks the title of the movie. A couple of my favorites are "There's going to be some apocalypse, now!" and "I wouldn't want to have to make Sophie's choice. Yeesh."
Score = 9
Medium-grade fail for not reading the "I Love You, Mr. Star Wars" post first. Sorry, monsters.
Score = 5
Oy Hay, My Son is Gay (do cows eat hay?)
Score = 7
oy vey! my son is a cow!
Score = 16
I don't understand why Hollywood needs to keep remaking old movies and greenlighting Lego movies when there are brilliant original movies like this coming out?
Score = 15
So a single gay couple looking to adopt creates a media firestorm complete with potential riots? Oy vey!
Also, Carmen Electra is in a swimsuit in this movie. She's a human female that I find myself sexually attracted to, so is it okay if I - a totally heterosexual dude and not gay at all - see it as long as there are no gay people around?
Score = 17
And as long as Tom Cruise isn't around, ya know, casting aspersions and such.*
*Handjobs in the bathroom, 10 bucks
Score = 14
As a queer female that is sexually attracted to Carmen Electra, is it okay if I see this movie despite the fact that it's about how terrible it is when one's child turns out to be gay and not straight? Let me think about it NO.
Score = 6
As a pansexual male who isn't all that fond of Carmen Electra, but who also wouldn't turn her down in an INTIMATE situation, is it okay if I see this movie RIGHT BEFORE I see Shutter Island so my guard is down (due to this being horrible) and I don't hate it?
Score = 2
WTF is up with Bruce Villanch? He looks like the love child of Bette Midler and Jobba the Hut.
Score = 9
First clip? I watched with shock and a case of wtfs. Second clip? Laughed so hard I almost peed. And it's the first on that with be in a theater near me, you say?
Score = 2
First of all, this exact movie was made a few years ago called "Mambo Italiano" and it was also terrible. But it was Canadian Italians, not Long Island Jews. Much hipper.
Second of all, there are a few ladies that gays would 'go straight for" (just to try it) and resident skank Carmen Electra is NOT one of them.
Lastly, Bruce Villanch? No.
Score = 6
I'm no expert, but I don't see how an ultrafeminine woman like Carmen Electra would turn a homosexual male straight... wouldn't it make more sense to employ a "butcher", more masculine woman? Not that anything about the entire premise makes sense, of course.
Score = 0
Oy vey! They should shoot Bruce Vilanch into space on a Whoopi Goldberg rocket! It would be a mitzvah!
Score = 1
That's it. Everyone out of my cab.
Score = 13
Personally I'm looking forward to Alluh Akhbar, My Daughter's A Crackwhore
Score = 37
You have no idea how much I wish this was Bruce Villanch's autobiographical coming out story casted with much much much more attractive men. Since I will likely never see this movie, I will just ignore the fact that it was written by three other guys and imagine it that way.
Score = 2
What's that you say, Oscar®? You want to be won by Lainie Kazan this year, in the Best Actress category? A little birdy told me you just might get your wish!
Score = 9
The best part of the second video:
The Google ads that showed underneath it were for "Christmas Card Quotes" and "Jeff Dunham tickets."
Score = 5
Dear Gabe,
Thanks for another reason to continue being a self-deprecating non-practicing Jew.
-Her?
Score = 0
Also Ave Maria, My Son Is A Queer
Score = 6
"What if she's black?!"
grats 2009
Score = 9
I thought "Snakes on a Plane" was the worst movie title ever.
Score = 1
Um, that's the BEST movie title ever, holmes.
Score = 5
I just love the fact that Big Pussy is the other father
Score = 0
for a legitimate look at this topic, i suggest this movie, currently on hulu
http://www.hulu.com/trembling-before-g-d
Score = 0
Carmen Electra and Bruce Vilanch, in the same movie?
We're gonna need a bigger IMAX.
Score = 9
I would say jinx, but my comment is a total 3 minutes after yours so, tip of the hat.
Score = 1
Bruce Villanch, Carmen Electra, talk about an all star cast.
Score = 0
another reason not to see this movie, THEY JUST SHOWED THE ENTIRE MOVIE IN THE TRAILER
Score = 7
They left out the scene right before introducing Carmen Electra where the dad turns off his DVD of Chasing Amy and says "EUREKA!"
I can't come up with anything else to say about this trailer because my brain is farting so much right now (I fart when I am paralyzed with horror, it's why I watched The Shining by myself).
Score = 3
I loved how the entire tone of the movie shifted from screwball comedy to heartwarming dramedy so fast and hard I nearly got whiplash.
Score = 3
TWSS?
Score = 5
well this shoots down my attempt to request a "whats up with Jai Rodriguez" weekly? post
Score = 10
You want some ice cream, in case there are no gay people there? - Tom Cruise
Score = 0
Bruce Vilanch ghost writes the anti-semitic portions of Jeff Dunham's "act"
Score = 1
By Satan's Goat, My Son Bought A Boat!
Score = 4
Videogum, how is this the first entry tagged with Bruce Villanch? That's called laziness.
Score = 4
That sounds like Mom. Or Bruce Vilanch. Could be Bruce Vilanch.
Score = 1
Is the Spanishy-Lookin' guy from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy? If so, I think he's being typecast.
Score = 0
What's this about Nick Kroll? (The League, every Thursday night on FX).
And can we assume this movie is straight to Logo?
Can't wait for the sequel... Tyler Perry's Awww Shoot! My Son's a Fruit!
Score = 7
Holy shit Bruce Vilanch is fat. Was he always this fat? I don't remember him that way. I think it's time for an intervention.
As for Lainie Kazan, she is perfect for this movie. I was at an HRC dinner once and she was the entertainment. Before her show she played a three hour poorly edited "Best Moments of Lainie Kazan" video. When she sang, I was right near the front and spent the entire time averting my gaze so we would not make eye contact. She moved in ways that made me very uncomfortable. And to think I'd almost forgotten. Thank you, Videogum. Thank you.
Score = 1
were her best moments a reel of her saying the line "what am i going to tell your grandmother?" in various accents?
also lanie kazan is my mother's personal fashion icon. she literally says that. all the time.
Score = 0
Haha. I hadn't seen "My Son is Gay" in two years. I sent it to my mother on the first Mother's Day after I came out. She loved it. (We're not Jewish, but I'm definitely gay.)
Score = 6