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You would hardly be blamed for stopping “Fire Island” at the halfway point as it slowly meanders from trite to soporific.īut once Booster’s script smooths into the narrative beats of “Pride and Prejudice,” “Fire Island” discovers a pulse.
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Darcy to Noah’s Elizabeth, initially grinds in the sand. Bingley to Howie’s Jane, and Will, the Mr.
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The script is padded with try-hard humor (an overly self-referential Quibi joke a reference to “Saturday Night Live” skit “Gays in Space”) and even the introduction of Charlie, the Mr. Such heavy-handed observations dull what’s billed as an endless summer movie. Providing reductive lessons in gay culture, the grating voice-over describes Fire Island as a gay Disney World with a community separating levels of attraction based on race, ethnicity, wealth and body types. Instead, they exist as signifiers of varying gay archetypes deployed as hollowed-out stand-ins for Austen characters.įor its first half, Ahn’s film bends over backward to placate to heterosexual viewers and is all the weaker for it. These scant details do nothing to connect viewers to the supporting players. In explaining how his friend group worked at the same brunch spot, Noah introduces Luke (Matt Rogers) and Keegan (Tomás Matos) as flamboyant theater school dropouts Max (Torian Miller), a gay Black man who reads Madeleine Albright biographies and Erin (Margaret Cho), the group’s tattooed lesbian den mother. The overwrought exposition, which feels like a structural holdover from the movie’s developmental origins as a Quibi series, gums up the pacing. “Fire Island” takes a long breath before it fully ignites, with the first half of the film crawling under the pressure of Booster’s clunky voice-over. And yet - in shades of the film’s inspiration, Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” - their tender, open-hearted diversions feed every corner of this romping rom-com. One in particular, the taciturn Will (Conrad Ricamora), confuses and frustrates Noah. It’s a touching thought, at least until they meet quiet yuppie Charlie (James Scully) and all of his toxic friends. Noah won’t succumb to his own sexual desires until he gets Howie a boyfriend. When Noah (Joel Kim Booster, also the film’s screenwriter) arrives on the retreat, he makes a promise with his sensitive best friend Howie (Bowen Yang) - a successful, perpetually single, graphic designer. Their extravagant trip promises sex and drugs, and plenty of catty spats in between. Loving and sweet, Andrew Ahn’s “Fire Island” whisks you off on a sunny, celebratory week at a gay resort where a group of friends are having their last big party before they firmly enter adulthood.