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Jim Carrey Movie 'Too Gay' For Release?

By Michael Musto, Tuesday, Mar. 24 2009 @ 6:00PM
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Categories: Featured, film, gaaaaayyyyyy

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Crazily enough, the movie I Love You, Phillip Morris, in which Jim Carrey plays a real-life man who's mad for the title character portrayed by Ewan McGregor, might not get a theatrical release in the US because people are too squeamish about a gay sex scene in it.

What could be so awful--does Adam Sandler try to join them, still pretending to be gay from the rotten I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry?

Well, Lewis Tice, who does p.r. and marketing for TLA Video, saw the film, and told me what he got from it:

    "The scene is not shocking in the sense that any body parts are actually revealed--both actors are nude, but the way the scene is shot, no pickle is on display. The surprising part is that the 'bottom' is this muscle, bearish type, who is on all fours, getting a really hard pounding by Carey. It was mostly the tone and my perception of Carey as an actor, just because I never looked at Carey in a sexual manner and he was so dedicated to giving it to the muscle-bear and the sexual tone was authentic, it caught me off guard. I eventually got over it and I think Carey is convincingly fantastic in the film. But I think most folks are used to seeing Ewan McGregor naked and engaging in man-on-man sex, but Carey, not so much. So more power to him for going there."

Say what? They held the pickle and it's still too much for America to take? Would they have preferred a pig bottom rather than a bear bottom? Or maybe if at least one of them had done a Brokeback and tragically died? In any case, this film's DVD release will certainly give me a release.

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ebert says:

You're sure it's not just too BAD for release?

Posted On: Tuesday, Mar. 24 2009 @ 6:15PM
Anonymous says:

I hear the fisting scene is very tastefully done.

Posted On: Tuesday, Mar. 24 2009 @ 6:21PM
CMG says:

Is it no surprise a nearly 4 minute trailer was released on the internet months ago basically revealing the entire plot of the movie to get a possible Carrey audience prepared? A lot of the comments on Youtube were mostly pretty positive and also I thought it looked pretty good and I am pretty sure there was positive feedback.

Posted On: Tuesday, Mar. 24 2009 @ 6:24PM
ladybug says:

It will do well with all the wanton libertines in Europe.

Posted On: Tuesday, Mar. 24 2009 @ 6:26PM
F. Packer says:

I never saw Jim look that happy with Jenny McCarthy.

Posted On: Tuesday, Mar. 24 2009 @ 6:31PM
latenitebump says:

how come we never get to see the terminator and rocky balboa (types) in such roles? picture the terminator and rocky balboa embracing in a deep, passionate kiss! the cues for the movie theater would be long!
jim carey i can picture doing just about anything!

Posted On: Tuesday, Mar. 24 2009 @ 7:04PM
La Grand Puta de Santa Ana says:

The thought of Arnold the Bad Governor unclothed anymore is-ugh! His boobs sag lower than Bea Arthur's.
It's ok for every ho and lowlife to have a reality series. UFC wrestling is violent but sooooo over the top gay with all these muscle guys in every position imaginable, kissing after the bout. But I guess if it ain't violent the corporate 'mos are afraid of some kind of backlash from the great unwashed masses or the Mormons, or their dogs. I'll wait and rent it from TLA. I love TLA and would rather give them my gay bucks.

Posted On: Tuesday, Mar. 24 2009 @ 10:10PM
southern dave says:

Ewan McGregor's pants look pretty happy, too.

Posted On: Tuesday, Mar. 24 2009 @ 10:18PM
CMG says:

That's not Ewan, his hair is strawberry blond for the film.

Posted On: Wednesday, Mar. 25 2009 @ 12:36AM
nostradavid says:

"might not get a theatrical release in the US because people are too squeamish about a gay sex scene in it" is just part of the marketing campaign. Controversy like that generates massive publicity. Not releasing a film by a "bankable" star doesn't happen in this universe.
I'm usually uninterested in anything Carrey does, but I will go see this one.

Posted On: Wednesday, Mar. 25 2009 @ 1:05AM
nostradavid says:

Just look at the print in Jims' pants!

Posted On: Wednesday, Mar. 25 2009 @ 1:46AM
Harvey Whinestein says:

I hear the golden showers, sounding, gangbang, hot wax, rough raw, PnP, and felching/snowball/pearl necklace/bukkakke scenes are all very tastefully done.

Posted On: Wednesday, Mar. 25 2009 @ 1:47AM
velma says:

Up here in the great white north — Carrey's one of us, y'all — it's well known that Jimbo's massively hung, tho not a particularly fun guy (jerk is the general consensus). No wonder Jenny always blushes when he's mentioned. Those pants aren't padded!

Posted On: Wednesday, Mar. 25 2009 @ 8:38AM
zaza says:

it's a great quote from Tice, and very interesting that the 'graphic' sex is not seen but vividly suggested and that's enough to freak people out. but maybe it's the larger issue, a real love story, not a farce, with two name actors that doesn't end in tragedy, that says even in prison love blooms, not
sadistic domination or humiliation. you'd think Focus who made Brokeback would distribute it.... but they're owned by GE

Posted On: Wednesday, Mar. 25 2009 @ 9:42AM
Andy says:

That's Rodrigo Santoro in the picture with Carrey.

Posted On: Wednesday, Mar. 25 2009 @ 11:07AM
latenitebump says:

why are they walking together like that? gay men don´t walk down the street holding onto each other like that even if they are in a civil union! jim´s outfit is terrible! the other dude is more believable (gay)! if it was more real (-istic) jim should be walking (arm and arm) with his lover cruising other men yapping on his blackberry!

Posted On: Wednesday, Mar. 25 2009 @ 11:43AM
dreimal says:

the photos I've seen of jim carrey parading around in jenny mccarthy's swimsuit or him in speedos back when he was in living color basically show he's barely got any genitalia at all. if that's "hung" for canadians, god help all of you. sort of like will ferrell. both are funny guys though. ps don't mean that as a pun.

Posted On: Wednesday, Mar. 25 2009 @ 1:16PM
Larry Lavatory Craig says:

Of course that's how gay's walk around. That's why you'd never see me doing such things. I am not gay, I never have been gay.

Posted On: Wednesday, Mar. 25 2009 @ 1:18PM
CMG says:

I have seen plenty of gay men walk together like that, particularly in Provinceton where it was three of them. Funny juxtaposition as my father was wheeling my 80-something grandfather a step behind these three hot guys not wearing any shirts.

Posted On: Wednesday, Mar. 25 2009 @ 7:09PM
Mich T. says:

Jim...Carrey..givin' it to a man. Hmm. Not exactly what I really would like to see. I suppose if the rest of the movie is good then i MAY watch it..if it makes it to theaters.

Posted On: Thursday, Mar. 26 2009 @ 10:15AM
fdgdfg says:

ewwww :/

Posted On: Saturday, Mar. 28 2009 @ 1:37PM
jp says:

Jeeesh! Being gay just lost its last vestige of coolness.

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 30 2009 @ 6:25PM
Fenke says:

well, if i had to judge by the trailer, this movie is one of the shittiest movie E.V.E.R.

Posted On: Saturday, Apr. 4 2009 @ 5:36PM
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