Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Charming and brutal

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This is a gay/straight film starring straight and gay people. To explain, the subject is sexuality, but presented in a way that straight men can watch it and feel comfortable and understood. For example, the film acknowledges how uncomfortable it is to be a straight/questioning man in a gay bar, it makes jokes about being gay as well as being straight and talks about sexuality so casually, with jokes and a lot of silliness (its called 'Poltergay' for heaven's sake) that it makes everyone feel comfortable without hitting anyone over the head with heavy-handed politics. Political films about sexuality like 'Philadelphia' and 'Boys Don't Cry' are important, necessary, often fantastic and can change people's thinking, but life isn't just about misery and seriousness. Sometimes its about fun (hopefully a lot more than it's about misery). Frankly, if more films and books could hide their serious political arguments in frothy silliness with winged penises and Boney M's 'Rasputin' playing throughout, maybe this'd be a slightly happier world. Because what this film is saying, in the style of Stonewall ads, while dancing in flares and holding snooker balls in the air in a faux-spooky fashion, is 'some people are gay. Get over it!' It's one of my top five gay films, and one of my top five French films. Because it's a clever, silly, gay- and straight-friendly story anyone can keep up with and it's funny. Occasionally a joke falls flat, and sometimes the acting feels a bit forced. But the psychic with the McDonald's makes everyone I watch this with laugh out loud, and you find yourself really routing for the lead man to sort out his life, and for the gay poltergeists to get what they want too. It's just the right length and it's not off-puttingly filthy (insert dirty joke here). It's just fun.

Try to catch this film if you can. A typical French quirky movie with endearing characters and amazingly a believable plot! The newlyweds end up in a old house that had a gay disco in the basement 30 years before that was destroyed by a fire and left the five disco queens in limbo stuck in time in their satin suits and feather boas..the subsequent boy loses girl scenario is played out against a background of Boney M and dancing lessons but you'll laugh out loud at the characters. Watch out for the ghostbuster who is an eccentric Mc Donalds maniac with some of the best lines in the film,Lots of French humour so you'll need the version with subtitles or at least O level French!

An excellent French comedy.Someone may say that it lacks fun... hmmm, well, yeah, it lacks oh so stupid jokes about shitting, vomiting and such stuff. Those who laugh about other things will like Poltergay very likely.A little bit of sex, psycho and disco. The cast is spectacular. The main characters are fun, but guys who play gay parts are absolutely amazing. They all act very lifelike, without rude caricature or something.The thing I liked most - joking around about tolerance and respect and other things that really make sense in our daily life. The movie has the idea in it along with lots of laugh during the whole thing. In common, it's very fluffy and good to watch to raise your mood. I watched it several times and laughed each time like it was the first one.

We've just got back from France where this movie has just started showing. Although our French is a bit patchy - well, very patchy, we decided to go and see this movie as it looked like it might be really good. It includes great music including Boney M's Rasputin which, for reasons that will become clear when you watch the movie, is played more times than I've had hot dinners this year.Despite missing some of the dialogue jokes (we could tell when others were laughing) I really enjoyed this movie. There are good performances from the cast who really enter into the spirit of camping it up. I guess what I liked about it was that it wasn't as spoof as something like the scary movie films - but at the same time it took the opportunity to be a bit silly whilst preserving a certain level of realism.They didn't really make a huge amount of use of special effects which actually worked really well as when they did pull the stops out for a scene it was actually pretty impressive which enabled you to share in the characters sense of disbelief.In short, it was funny and basically just a bit silly - the perfect evenings entertainment. Can't wait for the release of the DVD which I am now desperately hoping will have English sub-titles so I can go back and fully enjoy the poltergay experience!