Were the World Mine

Now before I go bashing this movie, I need to place a disclaimer. I came up with the exact same idea as this movie in 1998-ish and then wrote my version in 2001-ish as a rock opera. I never finished the music for it and it has never seen the light of day. So when I heard about this movie (via an email from a friend who said "Someone stole your rockopera idea!) and then told me about this movie) . . . I was miffed someone else came up with the same idea. But I tried to put that aside when I popped the DVD in and . . .

Okay. If you don't know about the play A Midsummer Night's Dream here it is in a nutshell: two guys and two girls are involved in a love rectangle. A fairy causes them each to fall in love with someone they were not in love with before. Hillarity ensues. The Fairy King and Queen step in and force the naughty fairy to fix what he did. The end.

This movie is a gay modern adaption of that same plot, but this time around the main character is a homo at a Catholic boys high school, and they're putting on the aforementioned play.

My first problem with this movie: since it is an all boy's school the director casts boys for the female parts. Yes, in Shakespeare's time this was how it was done, but this is NOT how any Catholic boy's school would do it EVER.


The main character is a homo who plays the fairy (hahahaha) in the play. He finds a "magic love potion" in the play . . .
My second problem with this movie is that NO SUCH POTION EXISTS IN THE PLAY! Bad, bad, bad screen writing to invent something that is supposedly in a famous piece of literature that simply isn't there.
The boy uses the magic potion to cause people to fall in love . . . but by some absurd coincidence, the first person each person sees is only that of the same sex. Come on! And not only that, it causes them to not only fall in love, but to adopt stereotypically gay mannerisms and lifestyles. And to suddenly spout Shakespearian poetry even if they would have never before been the sort of person who would have read it.

Naturally the main character causes the straight jock he has a crush on to fall for him.

So when the drama teacher catches on and doesn't seem to be surprised at ALL that there is magic afoot
she advises him to return everyone back to normal, including the jock he likes. He does. But what's this? The jock is still in love with him?

The end.

I HATED this movie. Of course, I'm probably mainly bitter that they stole my idea and defecated all over it, thereby preventing me from ever getting my rock opera produced . . . but thems the brakes.

Regardless, it's an awful movie.

But the boys are cute and the music is good.