Critic Reviews

• Tom Keogh, Seattle Times

  Clever, liberatingly silly and sweet.

• Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

  Starting your film with a display of public incontinence isn't the best way to win over the audience.

• Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

  Adam & Steve mainly goes to prove that indie gay romantic comedies can be just as witless, vulgar and over the top as their straight, major studio counterparts.

• Tom Long, Detroit News

  Pure amateur-hour stuff: a low-budget, poorly written gay movie that revolves around a crude joke and repeatedly delivers embarrassment when it's supposed to be offering humor.

• John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press

  [Chester] and the goofy Gets make a likable comedy team.

• Joe Brown, San Francisco Chronicle

  Plays as urban farce, but thanks to first-time director Chester's light touch and affectionally observant eye and ear, it's also a genuinely affecting love story.

• Kam Williams, Upstage Magazine

  A lighthearted look at gay love, and a far more honest and ultimately more touching exploration of the theme than what we got up on Brokeback Mountain.

• David Noh, Film Journal International

  Chester has a good ear for the snappy one-liner and this, plus his obviously hard-earned knowledge of the quirks in the gay mating game, put over his determinedly black romantic comedy.

• Eric D. Snider, EricDSnider.com

  It tries for cheap laughs, gets a couple of them, and whizzes the rest of them right down its pant leg.

• Phil Villarreal, Arizona Daily Star

  Chester could have used a major rewrite, or at least some serious editing.

• Ted Murphy, Murphy's Movie Reviews

  Chester's script is a series of set pieces that all contain exaggerated characters for comic effect. There are numerous one-liners that hit the mark and the central relationship follows its ups and downs along the lines of a conventional romantic comedy w

• David Elliott, San Diego Union-Tribune

  A clunky doofus, a comedy of meet-cutes and weak jokes.

• Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

  I can't think of another film in which the embarrassment over a freak bowel movement impedes the course of love and commitment.

• Jeff Vice, Deseret News, Salt Lake City

  Adam & Steve does distinguish itself from its fellow gay comedies -- in exactly one way: It's possibly the most low-brow of the lot.

• Kim Morgan, Reel.com

  So awkwardly directed by star Chester that its timing and tone are hopelessly uneven.

• Harvey S. Karten, Compuserve

  The sort of production that could be performed on stage by a high-school student group.

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