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Such a frustrating disappointment

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I freakin hate this movie. (i obviously love it) im crying and im pissed. i loved it but that... threw me for a loop.. i did not see it coming.omz :'''(

I cannot believe that some "critics" awarded one or two stars to a lovely, enjoyable but ultimately sad film. What do you not like? It was shot on a limited budget with two untried actors who gave their most. It had humour, pathos and eventually sadness. I just don't understand how anyone could be unmoved with a film that exposes all the emotions that so many gay men feel unable to express. It was a lovely film, and I do hope the main actors go on to even greater fame. Thank you Australia for a beautiful film.

Twice I've watched it and both times I've cried at exactly the same spots. Few films deliver a double punch like that. Considering the micro budget, that's a major achievement. Based on spoiler criticism of the ending on IMDb, I almost didn't buy it. Who needs another film with a tragic gay ending but as I was to learn, the tragedy part was quickly followed by redemption. In the aftermath, Mike realizes that the fears both boys had over their sexuality were really overblown. The universal acceptance by the teacher, the parents and even the school bully will serve as notice to any at risk teen that it does indeed get better.I also liked the photographic style. It was competently shot and the colorist has done a fine job. While budget restrictions meant this was always going to have a video feel, I for one appreciate the authentic capture of the southern latitude light. Only films shot in places like Melbourne, Sao Paulo and Cape Town have this crisp electric big sky southern hemisphere look and that can easily be lost when layered with big budget Hollywood "film look" processing. Finally, a note about actor Lucas Linehan. While I can't comment on his acting skills (a role like this is pretty standard teen angst and any soap actor could have rendered it as well), what made his involvement special was his decision to sink his own savings at the 11th hour to save the film. From the interviews he's done, it's clear that struggles with sexuality are not part of his own personal story, yet he felt passionate enough about the project and the director to make a stake. Thank you Lucas! Thank you Lee!

Monster Pies is the story of two average, slightly nerdy guys in high school who fall in love and experience practically everything guys have experienced in gay movies since The Boys in the Band - in other words: too much. Too much for THIS movie, anyway. Robert Altman could have juggled this much melodrama, but this is a small movie that staggers under an unnecessarily heavy load.It's as if Lee Galea, the movie's writer-director-producer-executive producer-editor-etc, had a long list of things he felt compelled to include in his one shot at a feature-length gay movie, and most of them just get shoehorned into the story in places where they don't fit. The result is a painfully clumsy movie, in which the viewer gets slung around from one trauma to the next, with no sense of continuity or understanding of why all this stuff is happening. It's arbitrary, it's tiring, and it makes it very hard to care about these kids, since they live in some slightly skewed universe in which nothing makes sense.So... why did I give this wreck of a movie five stars? Because of the two kids. Five or six times in the course of this disaster there is such sweet, strong, simple and pure affection between them that it makes all the other crap worth suffering through.It's like gentle magic. You're wrestling with this movie, trying to enjoy it but finding that an impossible feat, and then Will and Mike look at each other, and say something so tender and so lovely that you can't help loving them.Only when the two guys are alone together is this movie worth watching, and not always even then. Those few magical scenes last a total of maybe fifteen minutes, and they're scattered through the movie almost at random, like diamonds in a landfill. They make Monster Pies well worth watching, but it's rough going in between.