When I decided to watch this movie, I was in the mood for some stupid American jackass film and Humpday, with its title and the poster picture appeared spot on. I was in for an unexpected (but very pleasing) surprise. This movie is actually slow, indie and, put simply, nice. It strips off all the douchebagy nonsense someone would expect out of a movie where two straight dudes decide to get down on each other and instead offers talks, discussions and ideas on what brings someone to get to this idea and to go through (or not) with it.Apart from this, all the three leads are absolutely great. I'm pretty sure more than half of the movie is improvised, you can literally feel the nervousness and tension and chemistry among the cast, and I wish I could have a relationship like the one between Ben and Anna.

I went into this movie thinking it was a straight-up comedy. I wasn't expecting much, and truthfully the only reason I even chose it for my queue was Mark Duplass because I'm a big fan of the TV show The League.I was a little put off in the first 10 minutes or so when I realized this wasn't going to be your normal comedy. I also was turned off by the clichés of the old, restless, free-spirit friend unexpectedly popping in on his settled, average friend from school. But I did like the very first scene because of its realism. This realism was a staple of the movie, and it's what was so refreshing.At the time I didn't know it was improvised, but I wondered throughout the movie whether that was the case. The premise by itself does sound wacky and unrealistic, but it becomes believable in the context of the movie. It did have its faults, including clichés like those mentioned already, but all in all, it was just a realistic story with very believable, 3-dimensional characters.My favorite part about it was that the laughs it did evoke were not scripted ones like in most comedies (although that can work very well), but they were moments straight from real life that just happen to be funny. It was not especially funny, and I would hesitate to label it a comedy, but the humor in it was organic rather than contrived.

Two close friends (Ben, played by Mark Duplass, and Andrew, played by Joshua Leonard) grapple with the following dilemma. Can two straight men engage in gay sex, film it, and hope to win a prize at The HUMP! annual film festival in Seattle, Washington? HUMPDAY is a sly and witty examination of sexual attitudes which, at times, is as disconcerting as it is nearly hilarious. Ben is married, and he and his wife are about to start a family, while Andrew is a Free Spirit who sees himself as kind of a marginal player on the international art scene. One night at a party in a Free Love commune, the two men drunkenly come up with a possible brand-new approach to the Genre of Pornography. Why not have two straight men do a gay porn flic. This becomes the odd and unsettling conundrum for the movie. Is it possible for two straight men to engage in gay sex, or would the act itself preclude that they were gay at the outset? The viewer watches as Ben and Andrew squirm with the unstated (and frightening) query, am I gay, or closer truth, just exactly how straight am I? Maybe the real message of the film is that as much as we feel that we have completely settled on our sexual identity, the true nature of sex might be much more fluid. Personal sexual attitudes are not really laws which are set in stone, but maybe they are just guidelines which are subject to change and reinvention as circumstances change. The film doesn't resolve the issue, but it certainly presents a dizzying collection of cringe inducing questions which highlight this quandary. HUMPDAY could be seen as a possible companion piece to the wonderfully disquieting film, CHUCK AND BUCK.

This film is about two guy friends who have to deal with their drunken pledge to make a porn movie with each other.I think "Humpday" is wrongly marketed as a comedy, which makes viewers expect things which are not in the film. The first half is far too slow to be a comedy, and the second half is far too heavy on words. The pacing and the tone are just not right to be a comedy. It might be entertaining to see two guys trying to work their way out of the awkward situation without having to sacrifice their reputation, but there is simply not enough material to fill 90 minutes. The film stretches for far too long, and it gets quite boring. I think it would have been better marketed as an indie drama.