Humpday

October 17 2009, 7:30pm

Sort of like if Old Joy were funnier & much more fraught with pseudo-enlightened dude homophobia masquerading as open-mindedness. While I was watching it I sort of went back and forth on the premise (old college friends, one settled (married, job, house), one still bohemian, reunite, get baked/drunk, and swear to make a "two straight guys fucking" gay porn movie the following Sunday), but as with so much Mumblecore, it's not the plot itself but the discussions & moments that surround it. And here the cast really clicks, particularly Alycia Delmore as the wife of the "settled" half of the pair of friends.

Ultimately, the movie succeeds because it actually takes its goofy premise to its logical conclusion, and beyond.