tlashop.com

Review

The most beloved, long-lasting gay comedy film series returns with a never-ending parade of beautiful men, well-earned romantic moments and side-splitting laughs.

Zack (Chris Salvatore) and Casey (Daniel Skelton), the slightly mismatched, but adorable couple that we first met in Eating Out: All You Can Eat have broken up. Thanks to his time at Drama Camp (see Eating Out: Drama Camp, for those of you not following along at home), super-hunk Zack has already found a new boy-toy to love in Benji (Aaron Milo). Casey, on the other hand, has not yet found a new love. This fact proves embarrassing when Casey accidentally runs into Zack and Benji during a "Gaycation Getaway" at the Triangle Inn - a gay Palm Springs resort. After taking a wealth of bad advice from his best fag hags, Casey, desperate to not seem pathetic in Zack and Benji's eyes, enlists the help of Peter - a former high-school crush who has abs "like 'The Situation' without the scabies." Peter reluctantly agrees to pose as Casey's boyfriend for the weekend - as long as it doesn't interfere with his own sexual sporting. What Casey doesn't know is that Zack and Benji are having romantic troubles of their own. Zack is the monogamous type, but Benji isn’t ready to limit himself sexually. In face, Benji is hoping that an open, sexually adventurous weekend away will start to change Zack's mind about committed relationships. It doesn't. If anything, seeing Benji cavorting with other men is sending Zack's eyes wandering back to Casey.

In keeping with the previous films, the female characters of Eating Out: The Open Weekend get to tackle some the funniest lines and scenarios. Jennifer Elise Cox (who you might know best as Jan from The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel) joins new series regulars Lilach Mendelovich and Harmony Santana as an outrageously bitchy desk clerk. And, of course, no Eating Out movie would be complete without welcome cameo appearances from Rebekah Kochan and Mink Stole.

Charming, funny, romantic and packed to the brim with shirtless muscle-studs, the fifth entry in this consistently appealing series will please both fans of the series and newcomers.

 -- Robert O'Neill