Yes, "Bros" is a rare Hollywood romantic comedy that's about gay people but what's even more rare is that it has big, big laughs.
I can't remember the last time I belly-laughed at a movie as much as I did at "Bros," which Billy Eichner co-wrote (with director Nicholas Stoller) and stars in. The big laughs mostly come in the form of observations about gay life or culture in general (or both, such as a fictitious holiday TV movie about bisexuals called "Christmas With Either"). The movie isn't as dead-on as this year's "Fire Island" in its frankness about what it's like to be gay and single in 2022 — getting out of bed right after sex with your underwear on? Really, "Bros?" — but it is very, very funny.
Eichner plays Bobby, a brash podcaster and museum director who has decided he's OK with being single because "I love my freedom. I love my independence." If you think the lady doth protest too much, you're right, which quickly becomes evident when Bobby meets taciturn jock Aaron (Luke Macfarlane), who is completely unlike him in a way that seems to make sense.
