'Jim Queen' Review: Raunchy Gay Animated Film Offers AIDS Allegory With Mixed Results
By
Ryan Lattanzio
Toasted golden, schmeared with insight. Top of the rack.
Summary
A review of the raunchy animated feature 'Jim Queen' by Nicolas Athané and Marco Nguyen, which presents an AIDS allegory where the transmissible disease is heterosexuality (called "heterosis"). The film follows gay influencer Jim Parfait in a simplified version of gay Paris as a plague threatens the city's queer nightlife. The review notes the film is funny and raunchy but offers a crash course in gay sexual culture that may only resonate with those already familiar with it, while also criticizing its simplistic animation and basic storytelling.
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It's a film that offers a crash course in gay sexual culture that may be only meaningful to those already familiar with it
In this simplistically animated film's version of gay Paris, a disease called 'heterosis' is plaguing the city's gyms, sex clubs, and nightlife
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