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Amos Lassen wrote on 04/03/2011:

“West Hollywood Stories” has no pretenses. It does not claim to be a great movie or even a good one. It was meant to be nothing more than light entertainment and that is exactly what it is. If you are expecting high drama, good acting, a sensible script, etc, this is not the movie for you. It is simply fluff and nothing more. Nothing is as bad as what you can watch on the daytime TV soaps and even though the actors are not good, neither are they bad. They are good looking and that is something in itself.
This gay soap opera is a peek—and quite a tantalizing one—at gay life. WeHo Manor is populated with hunky men, good doctors, a pair of evil twins, maids who work naked and cross dressing nuns. They are bitchy and twisted and sick but fabulously so. There is Doug Stevenson, a selfless volunteer at a clinic who is also a gossip columnist who does what he can to get a scoop. In residence also is Tony Rios, a popular soap opera with a sordid porno past. The manager of the complex like his maids to be male, hunky and nude and his special housekeeper, Juan, anxiously anticipates a major fight between himself and his soon to be ex-lover, Vic, the handyman at WeHo. Chance Carnegie has just been thrown out of his house by his father, an ultra-right wing follower and has wound up with a pair of homeless teens, Liza and Elvis. Trevor Turner lives in a semi-closet as he maintains an unethical law practice and cannot accept that the only people at his law firm that get promoted are those that are married and have children. Finally, there is Dr. Jerry who is the mainstay of the neighborhood who has no idea that his lover, Ernie, is a recovering drug addict.
Put all these guys together under one roof and the fun follows. Just as any soap opera there is something for everyone and although almost everything about this ragout of a movie is bad when together and watched tongue in cheek, it is fun. Sure you will groan at the bad acting and lousy script but you will be looking at the beautiful men while you do so. It’s nothing more than fun even if it is awful.

Teddybearboy wrote on 07/25/2006:

WOW !!! I LIKE ALMOST ANY MOVIE AND I HAVE NEVER WRITTEN A REVIEW BEFORE... BUT I GIVE THESE TWO DVDS TWO THUMBS DOWN !!! I HAVE SEEN BETTER HOME MOVIES MADE BY CHILDREN. I CAN NOT BELIEVE ANY HONEST AND TRUSTWORTHY COMPANY WOULD SELL THESE DVDS. I PAID $9.99 EACH. WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY !!! BAD ACTING ??? HOW ABOUT NO ACTING AT ALL !!! IF IT WAS ENTERTAINING IT WOULD HELP. I KEPT LOOKING AT THE CLOCK TO HOPE THAT THE FIRST EPISODE WAS OVER. THEY COULD USE THIS MOVIE IN HOLLYWOOD TO SHOW OTHER ACTORS WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN THEY ACT. THERE IS ONLY ONE HALF WAY GOOD LOOKING PERSON IN IT... THE REST OF THEM... ERGGG !!! BUY A PIZZA INSTEAD... EVEN IF YOU HATE PIZZA... YOU WILL ENJOY THAT MORE THAN THIS MOVIE... BY THE WAY THERE IS ONLY TWO EPISODES ON EACH DVD... A TOTAL OF FOUR EPISODES IF YOU BUY BOTH ONE AND TWO. I FULLY AGREE WITH BEARJAK'S REVIEW...THIS IS TRUELY A WASTE OF MONEY... IT IS TRASH !

Bearjak wrote on 06/15/2006:

By all means this is the worst waste of celluloid I have ever seen. Extremely poor acting, shoddy editing and the worst scipt in trhe history of film. Not even a shred of camp comedy anywhere to be found. I actually tossed both DVDs in the trash after watching them embarrassed that I wasted my hard earned money to purchase this TRASH!

waterbearer wrote on 05/25/2005:

A great SPOOF of soaps with some HOT hunks thrown in the mix!!! Great mindless entertainment!!! Volume 2 on it's way to my movie screen!!! Buy them both!!!

John Nail wrote on 12/13/2004:

"West Hollywood Stories" is the "Tales of the City" for 1999? Armistead Maupin should sue for defamation of character.