My Fake Boyfriend
When it comes to advanced geological dating , romantic comedies have tackled it from just about every slant . From Tinder meet - skin to chance meeting in Ubers and catfishing on social media , the 21st - C date stamp landscape is just as disruptive ( if not more ) than when computers did n’t exist . Prime Video’sMy Fake Boyfriendtackles catfishing of sorts , this time with a deepfake , and it ’s an interesting enough take on a tested and true premise . With some laughs , enough heart , and a sweet lead execution fromLove , Simon’sKeiynan Lonsdale , My Fake Boyfriendproves that not all romantic comedies take to exchange up some predetermined pattern . While it tear some punches , Lonsdale — along with Centennial State - hotshot Sarah Hyland ( Modern Family ) and Dylan Sprouse ( After We Collided ) — carries this love story , even if it spend a little too much time center on its outlandish premise and not enough clock time exploring the literal love affair .
My phoney Boyfriendfollows Lonsdale ’s Andrew , a stuntman on a cheesy grievous bodily harm opera who is in an on - again - off - again human relationship with its headliner , Nico ( Marcus Rosner ) . His admirer , Jake ( Sprouse ) and Kelly ( Hyland ) , have had enough of their constant dissolution , leading Jake to create a fake online boyfriend that could make Nico overjealous and help Andrew move on . When this fake fellow , named Cristiano after the outside football sensation , becomes a social media genius , things get complicated , especially when Andrew begins falling for a tangible mortal . Rafi ( Samer Salem ) is a cooking instructor and restaurant owner and , when Andrew observe himself falling for him , he must navigate both his fake boyfriend and Nico ’s repeated attempts to win him back .
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homophile art is often held to impeccably high measure , perhaps because so little of it has been made and distributed as mainstream media . Each movie or television show center around queer narratives is forced to stand in for what is an incredibly divers residential district , a nigh - impossible task and one that , when executed poorly , stands out all the more for its flaw . fortuitously , this is slow transfer and Pride Month has catch a mickle of new releases that explore different boulevard of queer life in nuanced ways . My Fake Boyfriendmay not be the most nuanced delineation of queer love life , but the Prime Video movie just being okay is n’t a tough thing — there postulate to be more average gay art .
The deepfake plot at the center ofMy Fake Boyfriendcomes together perhaps too easily in a sort of dreamy read-only storage - com logic that is gross for its idyllic version of New York City . Nevertheless , the Cristiano high jinks are utterly sold by Sprouse , who is more than game for the progressively haywire situations he finds himself in . Jake ’s human relationship with Heyland ’s Kelly is another high spot of the movie , proving that the formerModern Familyactress is just as mirthful as when she was on the hit ABC sitcom .
It ’s ultimately the chemistry between Rafi and Andrew that drive much ofMy Fake Boyfriend , even if it ’s a little light source on natural gas . The movie does n’t seem to recognise this , with too much on its home base to focus solely on their bud romance . Instead , My Fake Boyfriendoffers societal spiritualist humor and gross - out bathroom prank that , while not inevitably a defective matter , also undermine what micturate the movie so charming in the first stead . A romanticist drollery lives and cash in one’s chips by its fundamental couple , but when audiences do n’t get to expend enough time with them , the climax can fall asunder . That ’s what happen here , with Rafi and Andrew ’s inevitable coupling undercut by the fact that viewers have n’t gotten to have intercourse Rafi ( or his dynamic with Andrew ) well enough to buy into it .
Lonsdale and Salem do what they can to make this romance excel , though . It ’s just enough to elevateMy Fake Boyfriendfrom mediocre rom - com and there ’s nothing unseasonable with that . Like some of the best romanticist comedy , My Fake Boyfriendgoes down with repose , accompany by solid turns from its cast and toothsome comedy that does n’t really push its R - rating beyond a few visual modality laugh and sexual references . Still , there ’s something comforting about the way in whichMy Fake Boyfrienddoesn’t endeavor to reinvent the bicycle . It ’s content living in its charming variant of New York where everything works out in the last .
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My Fake Boyfriendis now streaming on Prime Video . The cinema is 100 proceedings long and place R for sexual material and language .
