I was lured into watching this film by the favorable reviews I read of it on some gay websites. It's tiresome how tired old sex talk is endlessly recirculated as fresh and liberating. Neither my partner nor I laughed once watching it, too bored or annoyed by it maybe, but there is nothing like true wit or humor in it, just cheap, too often used jokes about sex that never worked even the first time you heard them, long ago.
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"It is what it is." There is no use in looking for ethical complexity or point in a movie as vacuous as this one. In The Skinny it is, summed up, "It is what it is." Everything bad that happens is excused in this way. But what comes of any of it? Like too many movies or TV shows, morality in it is matter of phony, meaningless wisdom.
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Yes, a few terrible abuses of people happen in this film. Yes, a few have their moments of sorrow and regret. They are all five, as is everyone else in this movie, empty, shallow, completely superficial people. If any of these five actually have active minds or ideas about anything else or live anything close to an intellectual life, if any of them have in fact been educated in any way whatsoever that matters, there is no evidence for it. Gay Pride means dancing, bars, hitting the clubs, hooking up, and either having sex or talking about the lack of it.
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Much of what they say seems to have been borrowed from skin flicks, whose moral universe this movie resembles. There is not an original moment in any of it. Yet all of their relentless sex talk is obsessively mechanical, vapid and full of clichés, shallowly pornographic (in the strict sense of that adjective) in its focus on matters of the body, and utterly, boringly witless. If there is anything else about the world that interests any of them, they mostly keep it quiet. They claim their educations proudly, but the only thing they talk about throughout the movie is sex. The Skinny purports to be about the reunion of five friends, four gay men and one lesbian, all graduates of Brown University, now living in various places in the country, like Atlanta or L.A., who gather together to celebrate Gay Pride Week in New York City, where one of the five, who is studying to be a doctor, lives in high style, at least in part supported by his parents.