Teenage Cocktail movie proves that “and they’re gay” is to plots as “in bed” is to fortunes?

by philg

The standard method for improving the messages inside fortune cookies is to add “in bed”. Examples:

  • “A friend asks only for your time not your money in bed.”
  • “A dream you have will come true in bed.“

The movie Teenage Cocktail bubbled to the top of the Rotten Tomatoes “what’s streaming now” list with a 100 percent rating (our of only 5 professional reviews so perhaps that makes it easier to hit the top of the chart?).

The plot: two teenage girls want to earn money so they (a) sell their appearance on a webcam to a male audience, and (b) have sex with a man in exchange for cash. Unless we think that this is a new idea, why would critics like the movie so much? One theory: the writers added “and they’re gay”.

Would this work for recycling almost any other standard plot? Simply make the characters gay and the critics will be positive?

Readers: The movie is free on Netflix. If you’ve watched it, what do you think accounts for the 100% rating with critics?

6 thoughts on “Teenage Cocktail movie proves that “and they’re gay” is to plots as “in bed” is to fortunes?”

  1. What a brilliant idea. The physicists tell us that with the billions of solar systems out there there is a pretty good probability that there is a parallel universe somewhere — except, and here is the twist, that in that universe the straight characters in this universe are gay and vice versa. So in that universe Vito Corleone is gay. Ricky Ricardo and Fred Mertz are gay. Moe and Shemp are gay.
    And Lassie is gay.

  2. Are you really surprised that only 5 reviewers consider the movie important enough to write about and they also happen to like the movie?

  3. Because it wasn’t released in theaters, mainstream critics didn’t review it.

  5. The reviews were painfully non-judgemental.

    As usual when a cute teen lesbian movies get praised for so bravery etc, I wonder why it wasn’t made with two male leads. Well, stalking horse is a job too, right?

  6. I think you may not be aware of how the Rotten Tomatoes’s Tomatometer rating works. This is the actual “detailed summary” of the classification:

    TOMATOMETER – 100%
    Average Rating: 7.2/10
    Reviews Counted: 5
    Fresh: 5
    Rotten: 0

    The Tomatometer scale is based on reviews of only “Tomatometer Approved Critics”, in this case just 5 people, and only based on binary responses, i.e. whether the review was positive or negative. Their actual average rating is 7.2 out of 10. A rating of 100% in such a small sample just means all of them found the film above passing grade.

    The more significant Audience rating is:
    53% liked it
    Average Rating: 3.3/5
    User Ratings: 206

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