G.B.F. review

Turns out school is a popularity contest

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An energetic attempt to blast Mean Girls with a ‘gay ray’, G.B.F. (yep, Gay Best Friend) is a colourful, hyperactive romp that, despite attempting to bust apart teen-flick clichés, quickly conforms to type.

When Tanner (Michael J. Willett) is outed as gay at school, he’s adopted by a trio of popular girls (Sasha Pieterse, Andrea Bowen, Xosha Roquemore) who want him as their trendy G.B.F.

Neither as scalpel-sharp as MTV’s high-school series Awkward , nor as hilarious as Clueless and Bring It On , Darren Stein’s film is fun if forgettable, mostly notable for a scene-stealing performance from Will & Grace ’s Megan Mullally as an overbearingly accepting mum.

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Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.