Bros

For the most part, it works rather well – a ribald and riotous onslaught of bracing humour which belies a sweetly soft centre.

It’s a proper, laugh-out-loud comedy which have you gasping for breath one minute and hands clapped over your mouth the next – yes, they went there.

Bros fails to satisfactorily map out its own space. Passes the time well enough. Doesn’t quite pull down the barriers.

It makes for a somewhat overloaded movie, sometimes very funny, sometimes with a sense of items being ticked off an agenda, sometimes emotionally a bit routine... All up, though, this is a major leap forward.

Queer love stories are every bit as individual as heterosexual ones, and we deserve to see them on screen, but can certainly aim a little higher than this smug, unsatisfying mismatch of ideas.

It’s distinctly smug about pitching itself as a landmark, while being really more of a setback, and a pretty low bar for the next one to surmount.

I’ve never experienced such whiplash during a movie

It did not need to have a theatrical release…throw it on HBOMax

While the film does a fine job taking romantic comedy tropes and giving them the gay treatment, they remain tropes.

Bros is a genuine, authentic, insanely hilarious breath of fresh air. Clever satirical comedy rips out loud back-to-back laughs throughout the entire runtime without ever causing viewers to lose their ear-to-ear smile.