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Absolutely the worst movie.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

This show is incredibly moving. The fab five each have the most charming way of reaching people. In one week they are able to help people realize who they are and who they can be. Deep and personal issues are gently brought to the fore, as my sister so aptly put it, they are having ecstasy conversations ALL THE TIME. They genuinely care and the participants feel this and let their guard down. In a world of manipulated emotion and fake honesty, we are shown real people dealing with their stumbling blocks and the fab five create a beautiful and nurturing space for them to overcome them.

I absolutely love this show! so far its only eight episodes long but every episode is worth it. The fab Five is so great, they are the nicest people ever. Going into this show, I was worried that five gay men were going to be interacting with southerners as someone who lives in the north, but I was just completely blown away by how nice and considerate these men were when faced with any opposition. Not to mention how nice the people who they interacted with were. Its just such a great show with a good balance of feelings and makeover.

"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" is the best show on TV! Why? It's simple: imagine five great people who had never known you before, going to your house and changing you from hair to toe! That's exactly what Ted, Thom, Kyan, Carson and Jai do for all the straight guys that come in their ways! Ted (VERY handsome, funny and an excellent cooker!) teaches a guy how to do great things in the kitchen, from complicated fishes and wine qualities to quick drinks and simple food; Thom has an excellent taste and he makes any place, doesn't matter how hideous it might be!, look amazing and sophisticated; Kyan transforms a guy's looks by only giving him a haircut or teaching him how to shave his beard without slitting his throat!; Carson is just amazing, his sense of humour captures everything and his taste on clothing is terrific and very ellegant; and Jai is such a sweet person, and he teaches the guy how to behave either if he's alone with a girl or in front of a huge audience - he's definatelly a 'culture expert'! By saying all this, I can only tell that "Queer Eye for The Straight Guy" is a very funny show, but it's also a very good tool for all of us to know that everybody has flaws, but they can be successfully fixed whenever you decide to - or when the Fab5 knocks at your door! In only one word, this show is... AWESOME!

'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy': Network: Bravo; Genera: makeover; Content Rating: TV-PG; Classification: Contemporary (Star range: 1 - 4)Season Reviewed: series For those that have been living like a lizard under a rock for the past year, the ambitiously titled 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' puts a slob straight guy in the hands of 5 gay ones, each of them specializing in a different area of life-changing. All the talk about the 5 co-hosts being gay is a nice diversion from the point. 'Queer Eye' is designed for the express purpose of reeling in the Oprah Demographic. A powerful TV market that likes makeover shows, but more than that, the success of the demographic is based on the idea that women don't necessarily want to see strong, witty, independent women on TV as much as they want to see men making fools of themselves. That, and the idea that the only way to really be a man is to get in touch with your feminine side. 'Queer Eye' is an unmistakable but admittedly clever spin on this type of show. Gay and Straight, a lot of men end up looking like fools here. First and foremost, the show is painfully unfunny – an evolutionary leap down from being just not funny. In this regard, the show's gimmick is essential, because 5 straight guys could never get away with acting this silly. Otherwise, the show is a routine bore and at a full hour an overly long one. All that after an intro that is so wildly over the top in its attempt to exude fabulousness it is an unintentionally laughable. They've got a couple of bizarre, interesting tips on how to fab things up if you're in a jam and need to improvise with household items which they showcase at the tail end of the episodes. However, that's the least of what 'Queer Eye' is about. We're supposed to laugh at their wacky antics, possibly hiss Carson for hogging the spotlight with his crass one-liners and root for their out-and-proud flamboyantly over-the-top homosexuality. We're supposed to think that watching this show will make people more "tolerant".I like that 'Queer Eye' comes from a place that treats homosexuality less like a sexuality and more like a culture with larger things on it's mind. It has a mission and proclaims loudly that the reason the stereotype of the gay man being well groomed and possessing excellent, feminine-like fashion sense is because it's true. Problem is, speaking from a TV landscape point of view - we've seen this all before. A show that showed gay men with beer guts, fixing cars, wearing wife-beater shirts and voting Republican - now that would have been bold and daring. But like everyone else about this show the gay men are designed to be easily recognizable to the drive-by viewer. The 'Law & Order' school of casting. Their entire world seems to revolve around being gay to the point that the show makes this an issue and the series, overall, into a fad. In the process they manage to package and commercialize the gay culture, siphon off from the straight culture and disperse it out into the mainstream. The end result being that the culture gets homogenized for the sake of a reality TV fad until it no longer as a uniqueness and identity of its own and guys like Carson are standing out on a street corner screaming to get noticed for how wacky they are - and, nightmarishly, nobody cares. As I said the straight men and women are equally represented. Slob men learn the value of vanity, materialism, makeup and hair and women get to achieve their dream of changing their man. Hell, we could have gotten this on 'Lizzie McGuire'. The women on the show are particularly peculiar. It's unclear why they didn't just turn tail and run at the first sight of their boyfriend's nasty apartments and avoid this entire mess. In the much-talked-about wedding proposal episodes (there will surely be more) we're supposed to swoon over how sweet it is that these women accept a proposal after the guys have cleaned themselves up and become a total walking fraud of their former selves. Well, nobody said that the heterosexual relationship promoted individuality either.So in the end we're left with nothing we hadn't already seen or heard from the start. That and a few odd household tips. 'Queer Eye' is merely a cog in a perpetual wheel of clichés bounding around trying to make everybody feel good about themselves in the simplest possible ways. As entertainment it's tedious, unimaginative, almost insultingly stupid and strangely crude. * / 4