Modest Male Exposure 2: I Dream of Genes

SUPRISINGLY FUNNY AND ORIGINAL!

I saw this movie at a club in New York City in November 2024. It was right after the Presidential election and the mood of the whole country was very tense, and everybody was exhausted from the constant political news every day. I did not know what to expect, except that someone who knew some of the cast told me it was supposed to be hilarious. They weren't kidding! "Modest Male Exposure 2" was just what I needed to escape the "real" world. At first the movie seemed like it was going to be just a series of vignettes, like "Sex and the City" except from a male perspective... with a LOT of unexpected full-frontal male nudity. OMG everybody just seemed really horny in this movie! But then there was a ser...

When I first learned there was going to be a sequel to the 2022 short film MODEST MALE EXPOSURE, I was wondering out loud just how long New York City drag queen Clover Welsh (who wrote, directed, and starred in the original movie) and New York City journalist/actor Jed Ryan (who produced and starred in the original) could stretch the first movie's theme of naked men and shifting attitudes towards male modesty. After all, just how much further can you go after you have four penises on the big screen, all competing for attention at the same time? Were they now planning on showing EIGHT penises on screen at the same time?! The short answer is no, although there's certainly no shortage of full-frontal male nudity in this film as well. Thankful...

This movie is like "Sex and the City" (or maybe "And Just Like That", because everyone in the movie seems to be on the older side)-- but focusing on the male perspective rather than the female perspective. Still, there's a lot of nudity (mostly male) and sex in this movie. There are four main guys: Sam, Trevor, Fred, and Ari... but instead of shopping like in SATC, they are into playing rugby and drinking beer and of course having sex. I really liked the way the movie told each of their stories-- especially the character of Ari, who is a transgendered man who wants to have phalloplasty to "fit in with the other guys". But the main character is Sam. He learns that he has a grown half-Asian son named Rev from a college fling. The movie show...